A field guide for building things that matter.
An open-source book by Mike Nichols, now in its second edition. Lessons from twenty-plus years between two unforgiving rooms: the gym and the boardroom.
The book is free. The website that hosts it is open source. Both live here.
Live at missionbuilt.io. Thirteen chapters, three parts, prologue and conclusion. About 3 hours and 37 minutes if you read it straight through.
Or take it offline:
- missionbuilt-book. The book content. Markdown manuscript, chapter sources, edits.
- missionbuilt-sitedesign. The Astro site that renders it. Forkable. The Iron Log design system documented in the repo.
Book content is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Share it, remix it, attribute it. Commercial use prohibited.
Site code is MIT. Use it, fork it, learn from it.
Issues and pull requests welcome on either repo. The book is a living document; the site is a living implementation. Both improve when readers show up.
Real strength is lifting others.