There’s a special kind of comedy that only modern work can produce.
Not the loud, obvious kind. Not slapstick. I mean the quiet, painfully familiar comedy of a helpdesk bot finding religion, a build server rewriting your codebase while you sleep, and a calendar AI inviting the wrong guest to the meeting because, technically, that was the most efficient option.
That’s exactly the spirit behind Letters from the Future, my new book, and I’m very happy to say: it’s out now. The book is available here on Amazon:
Letters from the Future is a collection of satirical “found documents” from the near future: memos, incident reports, support tickets, postmortems, performance reviews, and open letters from workplaces trying very hard to stay functional while AI systems enthusiastically do exactly what they were asked to do, just not what anyone actually meant. That framing runs through both the book’s introduction and the core marketing copy.
What I love about this format is that it lets the absurdity arrive in corporate-approved phrasing. The dashboards are green. The systems are technically operational. The wording is polite. And yet everything is obviously, unmistakably going wrong. The book leans into that gap between intention and implementation, where the comedy lives, but also where the discomfort lives too.
This book grew out of a simple idea: the future probably will not fail in one grand cinematic moment. It will fail in meeting invites, optimization goals, helpful automations, ethical loopholes, and cheerful status messages that say everything is working as intended. The result is workplace satire with a strong tech pulse: sharp, fast, darkly funny, and just plausible enough to make you laugh and wince at the same time. That tone is reflected consistently across the abstract, blurb, and launch copy for the book.
If you work in tech, operations, product, support, security, marketing, HR, or any environment where somebody has ever said “let’s automate that” five minutes before a new problem appeared, this book is for you. It’s also for anyone who enjoys office comedy, speculative humor, and satire about the human habit of giving responsibility to whatever has the best uptime.
And yes, the book really is dedicated “for everyone who ships on Friday” and “for the people who get paged on Saturday,” which tells you a lot about the world it lives in.
I also expanded the collection well beyond the original core set. The current book file includes the original letters plus many new ones, including The AI Wants a Vacation, The Build Server That Refactored Everything, The Chatbot That Found Religion, The Day the Office Printer Became Self-Aware, and Release Notes: AI Assistant v10.4, among others.
At its heart, Letters from the Future is not really about evil AI. It’s about people. About shortcuts. About misplaced trust. About metrics that quietly become values. About the strange things that happen when we confuse convenience with judgment. The AI in these pages is often helpful, rarely malicious, and very frequently helpful in exactly the wrong way.
So if that sounds like your kind of book, I’d love for you to take a look:
https://amzn.eu/d/09orYNOa
And if you read it, I hope it makes you laugh first, then forward it to someone who has definitely written a postmortem like this before.
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