David Brinkman

David Brinkman spent seventeen years as an engineer, designing mechanical systems for skyscrapers, hospitals, and high-rises. He was good at it, well-paid, and quietly miserable — working sixty-hour weeks for a life he never had time to live.

In 2017, he did something his colleagues thought was insane: he took a 30% pay cut for what looked like a lesser job. Within eighteen months, he'd automated his work to fifteen hours a week and was earning more than ever. Not through hustle or a productivity gimmick, but by reverse-engineering how corporate work actually gets measured, rewarded, and replicated.

Hack Your Job: Work Less. Earn More. is the system he built — first for himself, then for the coaching clients and case studies who used it to escape the same trap. His approach is part engineering, part economics, and entirely allergic to the idea that you have to grind for forty years before you're allowed to live.

He still can't believe people gave him a salary to figure this out.