Edition 01
Hardcover
Premium hardcover print. Matte laminate, orange foil title, 280 pages. The first 500 are signed.
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By Mahdi Shafiei · Founder, Trifid Media
F*$? The Resume.
A book for everyone who was told to “build a career” but always suspected the rules were rigged.
Stop sending your resume.
Start sending your work.
Trifid Academy Press · 2026
F*$?
The
Resume.
Mahdi Shafiei
§ 01 · Why this book
The resume is the problem.
The resume was invented in 1482 by a Renaissance painter trying to sell himself to a duke. It has not meaningfully evolved since. We are still, in 2026, asking young people to reduce themselves to a single page of past employers and hope that someone with a worse job than theirs picks up the phone.
Meanwhile, the people actually winning right now — the ones building audiences, agencies, products, culture — don't have resumes. They have receipts. They have bodies of work. They have craft, and they have proof. This book is about the switch.
What's inside
Ch 01
Why the resume is dead
Ch 02
Ship, don't sell
Ch 03
Build in public
Ch 04
The receipt portfolio
Ch 05
Brand is not a logo
Ch 06
Asking vs. being asked
Ch 07
The 10% finish
Ch 08
A field manual for the next year
Three editions, one release week
Edition 02
Audiobook
Narrated by the author. Unfiltered delivery, with two bonus chapters that aren't in the print edition.
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Edition 03
Digital + PDF
Kindle, Apple Books, and a DRM-free PDF. Comes with the workbook templates from the field manual.
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From the author
“Every book I write is the book I wish I'd had when I was where you are.”
— Mahdi Shafiei
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