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This book is a collection of essays that covers the foundational principles of second-order cybernetics, exploring how observers or participants both impact and are impacted by the systems they observe. Unlike traditional first-order cybernetics, which emphasizes control and feedback in external systems, second-order cybernetics investigates the recursive nature of systems that observe and regulate themselves. The "system" is simply a mental construct dependent on the observer. It is the observer who decides the boundaries, perspectives and interrelationships. This systems thinking is pluralistic, observer based and ethics based. But, how do these insights help tech. practitioners, executives and entrepreneurs? Grab the book and connect the dots for yourself!

Become a better data scientist by understanding different modeling mindsets.

A clear, modern rendering of Alfred North Whitehead’s landmark work Process and Reality. This edition renders Whitehead’s masterwork in direct, contemporary English, bringing his visionary cosmology of an interconnected, dynamic universe into clear and readable focus. A faithful, accessible gateway to Process and Reality for students, thinkers, and curious readers alike.

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.

This book tries to put words to what most experienced programmers already know. It provides a framework for making better design choices, and a vocabulary for teams to discuss the software they collaborate on.

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

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.

When machines can create compelling work, what makes human involvement matter? Explore the value of authorship, the experience of making, and the relationships that give creative work its meaning.

What if the Bhagavad Gita began with a code review? A Merge Request adds two harmless getters to an immutable Money Value Object. The tests pass. The pipeline is green. Arjuna still cannot approve it. Standing between the DDD Alliance and the Just Ship It Legion, he turns to Krishna for guidance on domain truth, technical karma, architectural duty, knowledge crunching, entropy—and the dangerous illusion that a working implementation must also be a truthful model. The Logs of the Bhagavad Gita is an affectionate, technically serious and occasionally irresponsible encounter between ancient philosophy and modern software development. No framework will attain enlightenment. Your Aggregate Root might.

From the sphere of one to the sphere of everything: an exploration of the boundaries we live inside.

宇宙可以解释世界如何运转，却不会替我们决定什么值得追求。本书帮助读者在没有终极保证的时代，建立可讨论、可修正、可承担的生活判断。

What if Emmet Fox’s teaching were approached not as a collection of inspirational quotations, but as a complete system that could be mapped, practiced, and tested? The Inner Laboratory reconstructs the architecture of Fox’s thought, examines its promises without blind devotion, and turns its central ideas into practical methods for attention, prayer, forgiveness, courage, prosperity and action.

Et si Emmet Fox ne nous apprenait pas simplement à penser positivement, mais à déplacer le centre de notre conscience ? Ce livre reconstruit l’ensemble de sa doctrine, en révèle les mécanismes, en éprouve les promesses et propose trente jours de pratique — sans naïveté, sans culpabilisation et sans fuir le réel.

Dieu savait que l’homme pourrait aimer, créer et sauver. Il savait aussi qu’il pourrait haïr, détruire et tuer. Pourquoi lui avoir donné la liberté ? Et pourquoi ne l’a-t-il jamais reprise ?

For a century, academic dogma claimed that a tiny slice of reality is the exact same size as the whole thing. It’s an illusion. Geometry proves the part is always smaller than the whole. This 30-page blueprint exposes the intellectual traps of Cantorian math and teases a neuroscience layout to tweak your biological waveguide filters. Read the truth, escape the distractions, and join the vanguard.