Three books I've written. The Decan Log is free to read in full here; AgentSpek's opening chapters are free to read, and the rest are in the book. The Little Black Book of Hansuru is a pocket field manual on antifragile investing, available in Kindle and paperback. For reviews of the books that changed how I see the world, visit The Library.
A 10-Day Journaling System Aligned with the Stars
What if your journal tracked not just days but cosmic cycles? A 10-day rhythmic system connecting ancient stellar wisdom with modern self-awareness. Track patterns, honor rhythms, become antifragile.
A Beginner's Companion to the AI Frontier
Don't panic, just code with AI. A travel-size companion for anyone curious about stepping into the world of AI-assisted coding. Field notes from the edge of the AI frontier.
A pocket field manual for antifragile investing.
Selling options for income, built on one law: survive first. A black pocket manual for standing toward markets you cannot predict, separating what lasts (principles) from what does not (strategies).
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In-depth reviews of books that changed how I see things. Philosophy, technology, writing craft, and the cosmos.
James Gleick's The Information is the clearest history we have of how the world learned to measure the signal. It is also the book that showed me, by drawing the boundary so cleanly, the one thing the science of information set aside on purpose: meaning. This review is the origin story of the work I have been doing since I closed it.
Alan Watts dismantles the illusion of the separate self in 150 pages of crystalline prose. Not for Buddhists or philosophers, for anyone who's ever suspected that who they think they are might be a story they're telling themselves. Playful, radical, and quietly devastating to ego.
I'm mid-listen on the audiobook of Isaacson's Elon Musk, narrated by Jeremy Bobb, and as a builder I keep hearing the engineering algorithm in my own work. A discerning take: I admire the deletion discipline and the first-principles fire, but I read the mania and the human cost clear-eyed.
I'm mid-listen on the Born a Crime audiobook, narrated by Trevor Noah himself, and it is one of the best-told things I have ever put in my ears. A story of apartheid, a fierce mother, language as survival, and lightness pulled out of hardship.
I'm mid-listen to Out of Your Mind, recorded lectures in Alan Watts' own archival voice (his laugh included), and it is the philosophical bedrock under everything I think about the cosmos and the self. You are the universe experiencing itself.
I finished the Masters of Doom audiobook narrated by Wil Wheaton and it was marvelous. The two-founders, build-from-nothing, ship-relentlessly story of id Software stuck with me. I miss it already, the same way I miss Shoe Dog.
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The photons entering your eyes tonight left Pollux in 1991. This orange giant, the closest evolved star to Earth, is brighter than its twin Castor yet labeled Beta. Its myth of shared immortality teaches that the deepest act of relationship is entering the other person's condition rather than trying to fix it.
The photons entering your eyes right now left Alhena in 1916. This white subgiant burns at 9,260 Kelvin, pouring most of its energy into invisible ultraviolet wavelengths. Its binary companion orbits in silence, shaping the trajectory through gravity alone. The star named 'the Brand' sits at the foot of an immortal twin, where thought meets ground and language becomes inscription.
The photons entering your eyes right now left Capella in 1982. Two yellow giants, locked in a 104-day orbit, sent this light together from 43 light-years away. The star that never sets opens Decan 5 with the ancient question of what is worth protecting and what protection costs the guardian who provides it.
We've traveled far together, you and I. The tabs closed, the compass got built: pick one tool, feed it real context, review like an architect. What will you build that couldn't exist without you?
For six months, I told almost no one about how I was working. The isolation was real, and so was the way out: finding the people figuring out AI-assisted development alongside you.
There's a moment in any transformation when you stop observing the change and realize you've become it. Not learning. Not mastery. This is metanoia, and it's already happening to you.