I ghostwrite and edit for founders, CEOs, and cybersecurity leaders who have something worth saying and no time to wrestle it onto the page. These are a few of the books I’m proud to have shaped, in cybersecurity, AI, and the stories executives actually want to tell.
Co-author · Forthcoming
Lessons in Humanity for the Age of AI
Three decades of Silicon Valley security war stories, shaped into a blueprint for teaching AI the qualities raw intelligence never covers, from empathy and cultural fluency to the good sense not to crack jokes during a layoff announcement.
Coming August 2026
Lightning Strikes When You Don’t Listen
Lloyd’s most personal book to date, a memoir-driven look at the price of not listening, written start to finish in his own voice.
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Breaking Rules and Getting Burned
The book that began our partnership, a frank account of the lessons that tend to arrive only after things have already gone wrong.
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The Guide
The companion workbook that turns the ideas in Refined by Failure into something a reader can put to work right away.
View on IngramSpark →Lloyd’s blog work drawn together with new material and co-written into a full book.
If you have something worth saying and no time to wrestle it onto the page, that’s the part I’m good at. Tell me what you’re working on and where you’d like it to go.
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