The Books & Ideas territory. Two books I've written (AgentSpek and The Decan Log) and a growing archive of reviews of the books that changed how I see the world.
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.
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In-depth reviews of books that changed how I see things. Philosophy, technology, writing craft, and the cosmos.
McDougall went to Mexico's Copper Canyons looking for the secret to running without injury. What he found was a hidden tribe of superathletes, an argument that humans evolved to run, and a story so good it launched an entire movement. Born to Run is part investigation, part adventure, and part love letter to the oldest human activity.
Murakami writes about running the way runners think about running: not as exercise, not as training, but as the thing itself. The rhythm of feet on pavement becomes a metaphor for the rhythm of writing, and both become metaphors for the rhythm of a life lived with intention.
Pre ran every race from the front. Tom Jordan's definitive biography captures the philosophy of the most intense competitor in American distance running.
I'm listening to the audiobook edition while working, and Phil Knight's voice (through the narrator) feels like sitting with someone who built something extraordinary but hasn't quite processed how extraordinary it was. Shoe Dog isn't a typical business memoir full of manufactured wisdom and cleaned-up origin stories. It's messy, honest, and human; exactly what you need when you're in the grind yourself.
I listen to Admiral McRaven's commencement speech every week. Not every day. Not randomly. Every week. The book expands on that famous University of Texas address, but the speech is what hooks you. Ten lessons from Navy SEAL training distilled into something almost too simple to be wisdom: start your day by making your bed, and you have already won. That simplicity is precisely why it works.
Jim Simons returned 66% annually for 30 years by removing human emotion from trading. A working options trader's take on what he actually built.
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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.
The photons entering your eyes tonight left Menkalinan in 1944. This eclipsing binary, two nearly identical stars orbiting every 3.96 days with clockwork precision, marks the shoulder of Auriga the Charioteer. Light born in the year D-Day was planned and executed arrives carrying a lesson about guidance and structure that operates from the atomic scale to the scale of civilizations.
The photons entering your eyes tonight left Elnath in 1894, a year of bold expansion in every domain. This blue-white giant burns at 14,000 Kelvin, producing 700 suns of light from the boundary between two constellations. A mercury-manganese star whose most distinctive features arose from calm foundations, Elnath teaches that focused boldness, not scattered energy, is what crosses boundaries worth crossing.
Every master was once a beginner. Every teacher was once a student. Every pathfinder was once lost in the wilderness. Your journey begins now. Go write it.
For six months, I worked alone with this workflow, afraid to share it. Then at a Python meetup someone said 'You too?' That Discord server has 147 members now. Your tribe is out there.
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.