Books

A pattern language for event sourced applications and reliable distributed systems. Examples are written in the Python programming language. Now includes event-oriented introductions to the pattern language scheme of Christopher Alexander, the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and the person-centred psychology of Rogers and Rosenberg.

In unethical software, not every line of code is written with good intentions. Unethical Software Engineering: Dark Patterns exposes how to manipulate users, drive profits, and evade accountability. From covert surveillance, monetization at all costs, digital fraud, ranking manipulation, all the way to unethical artificial intelligence practices, this scary book unveils how these "dark patterns" exploit human beings, erode trust, and disrupt digital ethics.Whether you're a developer, an architect, a tech enthusiast, or simply a concerned user, this book will change how you think about your daily apps — and inspire you to demand better. By helping you to draw the line between what is acceptable and what is questionable, Unethical Software Engineering: Dark Patterns shines a light on the digital dark side of software engineering where profits are prioritized over people.

Master Antifragility and Peak Performance to stop just surviving and start thriving. Use Neural Rewiring and a Growth Mindset for burnout prevention and long-term success in high-stress environments.

When AI rewrites the rules of value, one man discovers the 23 ancient laws of survival that no machine can replace.

What could a mighty billion-parameter reasoning machine learn from a camel trying to touch its ear with its tongue? From a cup of coffee? From deleting your entire codebase while you sleep? More than you’d think. And less than you’d hope. Today’s AI is brilliant structure without grounding—a hollow genius. We chase smarter models but ignore the architecture they need. This book is about building that missing layer: the trust chains and systems that turn raw intelligence into reliable autonomy. For builders ready to move beyond prompts.Watch agents solve unsolvable problems. Learn to think in trust chains. Start here.

Discover the timeless wisdom of Stoicism in a modern context with "The Stoic Mind," an enlightening visual guide by GoLimitless and Addy Osmani. 

Atlantis was never only a lost city. It became one of the West’s great civilization-legends Beginning with Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, and moving through later antiquity, Renaissance humanism, Bacon’s New Atlantis, Donnelly’s literalizing turn, nationalism, pseudoarchaeology, modern media, and digital culture, the book shows how Atlantis became one of the West’s great civilization- legends. This is not merely a book about an ancient myth. It is a book about what civilizations do with legends of greatness, catastrophe, hidden order, and recoverable loss. The result is a wide-ranging study of philosophy, history, media, and civilizational memory that explains why Atlantis still matters in an age of technological power.

INTJ is one of the rarest personality types in the world. Only about 2.1% of people share it. You notice inefficiency sooner, tolerate stupidity less, and spend years building capability without building leverage.And yet somehow, people with less depth, less skill, and less actual value keep making more money than you.

Komplexe kognitive Systeme entwickeln sich nicht in Richtung Komplexität als natürlichem Attraktor. Vielmehr entsteht Komplexität als seltene Folge von Umgebungen, die durch hohe Variabilität gekennzeichnet sind, in denen starre und weiche Selektionsregime über mehrere Dimensionen der kognitiven Architektur hinweg miteinander interagieren. Dieses Zitat fasst eine der zentralen Thesen des im Werk Cartography of Mind dargestellten theoretischen Rahmens zusammen. Die Arbeit schlägt vor, dass Komplexität in kognitiven und sozialen Systemen nicht als eine unvermeidliche Richtung der Evolution verstanden werden sollte. Stattdessen entstehen komplexe Architekturen nur unter spezifischen Umweltbedingungen, die einerseits ausreichende Variabilität aufrechterhalten und andererseits selektive Beschränkungen auferlegen.Der theoretische Rahmen führt das Konzept multidimensionaler Selektionsregime ein, in denen starre und weiche Formen der Selektion auf verschiedenen Ebenen eines Systems miteinander interagieren. Die Stabilität komplexer kognitiver Strukturen hängt vom Gleichgewicht zwischen Variabilität, Reproduzierbarkeit und Selektionsdruck ab.

How long can you keep collecting a good salary inside a company that is obviously too inefficient to survive what’s coming? This book shows you how to turn the broken workflows you already understand into income you control - before your paycheck reminds you it was never really safe.

Thinking changes not when its content changes, but when its structure does.The mind develops not through correctness, but through diversity.Choice is the mode of existence of thought.

Western civilization today faces external enemies and internal decay. Unless we return to the values that built the West, it will soon follow Rome into collapse.

Answers are no longer scarce.Explanations appear instantly. Systems respond before questions fully form. Relevance is calculated, sorted, and delivered with minimal friction. The surface appears efficient.Yet something shifts beneath this abundance.When selection is automated and signals fluctuate continuously, orientation does not strengthen. It fragments. Attention becomes reactive. Judgment becomes distributed. Decision-making persists, but its center grows less visible.After Answers does not argue against technology. It does not offer recovery strategies or productivity corrections. Instead, it observes what happens when explanation becomes constant and responsibility becomes ambient.What changes when systems anticipate preference? What weakens when relevance is delegated? What remains when guidance is automated but accountability is not?This book studies saturation without dramatizing it. It examines autonomy without romanticizing it. It approaches responsibility without prescribing solutions.For readers attentive to structural shifts in cognition, authority, and digital mediation, this work begins where answers stop stabilizing orientation.

In a world designed for efficiency, can a choice beyond calculation still matter? A philosophical inquiry into how human freedom emerges at the limits of algorithmic logic.

A Unified Theory of Influence—From Ancient Persuaders to AI Futures Influence is everywhere: in the parent teaching a child, the advertiser crafting a message, the algorithm curating a feed, the state deploying propaganda. Yet we lack a comprehensive framework for understanding influence across these domains. This book provides one. Influencers and the Influenced integrates memetic theory—the study of cultural replicators—with persuasion psychology and network science to explain how ideas, beliefs, and behaviors spread through populations. The analysis spans from humanity’s earliest influencers (parents, priests, teachers) through the contemporary landscape of social media creators to speculative futures involving artificial intelligence and post-human cognition.