AGENTSPEK Is Live on Amazon
I wrote a book about coding with AI using AI to write it. Now it is on Amazon. Here is what that process taught me, and why I think this is the beginning, not the destination.
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The Man Who Solved the Market: What Jim Simons Actually Built
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.
Genius Makers: The Inside Story of the AI Race That Built ChatGPT
The inside story of how ChatGPT happened. Genius Makers traces the researchers and rivalries at Google, OpenAI, and Meta that built modern AI.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
A flashlight. Morse code. Two friends signaling across the dark. From these humble origins, Petzold builds the entire architecture of modern computing. This book strips away the mysticism and reveals what computers truly are: layers of simple ideas, stacked with care.
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Taleb's Antifragile isn't just another self-help book about resilience. It's a paradigm shift that challenges everything you think you know about risk, randomness, and thriving in chaos. Some things break under stress. Others survive. But antifragile things actually get stronger.
The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
The DevOps Handbook isn't just another tech methodology book. It's the definitive guide to why some engineering teams ship fast without breaking everything, while others are stuck in deployment hell. If you've ever wondered how companies like Netflix and Amazon deploy thousands of times per day without catastrophic failures, this book reveals the playbook.
The Little Book of Trading: Options Like the Pros - A Practical Guide to Options Trading
Most options trading books are either too academic or too simplistic. This little book strikes a rare balance. Practical enough to implement immediately, deep enough to avoid rookie mistakes. If you're tired of losing money on options or just want to understand what the hell a 'put credit spread' actually means, this is your starting point.
The AI Development Revolution: Part 1 - The Awakening
The physical reality of coding at machine speed. A firsthand account of working with AI, mental acceleration, and what changed forever.
The Multithreaded Mind: Six Weeks Living at Machine Speed
From copy-pasting LLM outputs to launching 13 repositories in six weeks: what happens when human creativity merges with machine intelligence? A philosophical exploration of time dilation, vibe coding, and the birth of augmented consciousness.
Vibe Coding with AI: Poetic Reflections on Creativity, Agency, and the Art of Human-Machine Collaboration
A meditative reflection on collaborating with AI as a creative coding partner, exploring the tension between productivity and disruption, trust and agency, and the evolving nature of work in an era of intelligent machines. Through poetic fragments and philosophical musings, the entry captures the essence of “vibe coding,” the challenges of adapting to new tools, and the beauty found in creative experimentation.
Writing as Vessel: Reflections on Thought, Intention, and the Infinite Loop of Creation
A meditation on the raw process of creativity, this piece explores the flow of words, the cycles of time, and the interplay between intention, thought, and the act of making. It questions the role of purpose in art and reflects on the human condition within the infinite span of existence.
The Steady Work of Freewriting: Flow, Focus, and the Future of Thought
A meditation on the discipline of writing as both practice and ritual, this piece explores creative flow, subconscious mining, and the strange intersection between human thought and emerging machine intelligence. It reflects on the nature of persistence, the future of creativity, and the unfolding evolution of self through the act of showing up.
Handwriting as Meditation: Sourcing Creativity Through Flow, Breath, and Rhythm
A meditative reflection on the practice of handwriting as a gateway into the subconscious. This stream-of-consciousness journal entry explores the inner mechanics of creativity, the discipline of returning to the page, and the mystery of sourcing original thought through rhythm, breath, and presence. Written at the turn of a season, it’s a poetic tracing of movement, inertia, and meaning-making in real time.
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything by Steven Levy
A Deep Dive into Apple's Revolution. Few products have reshaped the world quite like Apple's Macintosh. In Insanely Great, Steven Levy takes readers inside the creation, culture, and impact of the Mac.
Hackers: The Heroes of the Computer Revolution – A Historical Perspective
Steven Levy’s Hackers: The Heroes of the Computer Revolution is a foundational text in the history of computing, chronicling the evolution of hacke...
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Some writing books feel like technical manuals, others like stern lectures. Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life is so...
Gertrude Stein’s Essay on Writing Masterpieces: A Revolutionary Perspective
Introduction: The Art of Breaking Literary Conventions
Peace in Every Breath by Thich Nhat Hanh
I recently reread this book on a flight during a family trip. It allowed me to see things from a different perspective and was just the wisdom I wa...
On Writing by Stephen King
Some books about writing are technical manuals, others are deeply personal. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King is a rare fusion of b...
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan’s The Dragons of Eden isn’t just another book on human intelligence—it’s an interdisciplinary fusion of science, philosophy, and speculative inquiry.
