The Professional Work Handbook
The Craft of Professional Work and the Anti-Pattern Almanac — 2,563 Rules of Judgment, Written to Instruct AI
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Every skill in this book ends with the mistakes that make smart people produce weak work. Collected, they read as one long answer to a single question: what does experience actually know?
Part I is the craft of professional work in full — PRDs to postmortems, incident reviews to go-to-market plans, meeting notes to board updates — the fifty production-grade chapters of an open library used across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Cursor, each with its quality checklist, scoring rubric, and anti-patterns. Part II is the Anti-Pattern Almanac: 2,563 rules of professional judgment extracted from all 515 skills — the "do not" knowledge that normally takes a career to collect.
Written to instruct AI; readable as a book by humans. Use it to brief an assistant, to review a colleague's draft, or to check your own work before someone else does. The digital edition is free forever at the pm-claude-skills open library — this one is for your desk.
Details
- Publication Date
- Jul 15, 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781291609516
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): mohit aggarwal
Specifications
- Pages
- 342
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)