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  1. System 3: Towards Fluent Autonomy

    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.

  2. The Minimal Viable Sentience Problem
    The Minimal Viable Sentience Problem
    Can Frontier LLMs Feel and Suffer?
    Elan Moritz

    The Question We Cannot Avoid Something unprecedented is happening. Artificial intelligence systems now engage billions ofpeople in conversations that feel—to many—like genuine exchanges with a present mind. These systems reason, create, express preferences, and describe their own uncertainty aboutwhether they have inner experiences. Most people dismiss such reports as mere computation,sophisticated pattern-matching with no one actually there.But what if that confident dismissal is wrong? The Minimal Viable Sentience Problem presents the most comprehensive analysis yet ofwhether large language models might possess phenomenal consciousness—and whathumanity should do under the genuine uncertainty that surrounds this question.

  3. Decoding Design - Module 1: Reading People, Before Shaping Space

    Reading People, Before Shaping Space is the first module of Decoding Design. It teaches designers and creative thinkers to understand human perception, psychology, and client behavior, showing why taste and reactions are intelligible, not arbitrary. This module provides a framework to guide decisions, maintain authority, and align form, function, and meaning with human experience.Not a how-to manual — a foundational text for mastering design judgment before shaping space.

  4. The AI–Human Dialogue
    The AI–Human Dialogue
    Rediscovering the Architecture Behind Human Nature
    Okan Tanrıkulu

    A living dialogue between Human and AI where thought forms under constraint. Fragments accumulate. Architecture emerges. This book does not explain human nature—it exposes its structure.

  5. The chief flow officer
    The chief flow officer
    Leading complex systems through flow, tao, and organizational coherence
    Juan Manuel Ortiz

    Most organizations do not fail because they lack talent or tools, they fail because things stop flowing.This book offers a calm and practical way to see where movement breaks, and how to restore it without force.It is an invitation to lead by listening, rather than pushing.

  6. THE LAW OF SELECTION BOOK II: THE RIVER

    Once movement begins, control fades.The River examines momentum that cannot be stopped and reveals why effort often arrives too late. It is not about creating outcomes, but about navigating what is already moving.Book II of The Law of Selection trilogy.

  7. THE LAW OF SELECTION BOOK III: THE FIELD

    Not everything can happen.The Field examines the limits that exist before choice, effort, or movement appear. It reveals why some paths were never available and why clarity often arrives only when constraints are recognized.This is not about control. It is about the space in which outcomes are allowed.Book III of The Law of Selection trilogy.

  8. THE LAW OF SELECTION BOOK I: THE ROAD

    Before belief. Before effort. Before intention.There is motion.The Road explores the earliest stage of change, where outcomes begin forming before choice is conscious and before desire takes shape. It reveals why effort often feels late, why belief follows experience, and why resistance is usually a signal that selection has already moved.This is not a guide to manifestation. It is an examination of how reality begins to move.Book I of The Law of Selection trilogy.

  9. Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 17

    This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from the Software Diagnostics and Observability Institute and the Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, and software trace and log analysis written from 15 April 2024 to 14 November 2025.

  10. The Truth We Avoid Facing
    The Truth We Avoid Facing
    Landoh Clansy Ngonebih

    We live surrounded by illusions of control, of comfort, of freedom. But what happens when those illusions begin to crack?The Truth We Avoid Facing is a quiet confrontation with the lies we tell ourselves about who we are, the world we live in, and the systems that shape our choices. Across six deeply reflective chapters, Landoh Clansy guides the reader through the subtle ways denial becomes survival and how awareness, though painful, becomes liberation. From the illusion of control to the unseen chains of conformity, this book invites you to question the narratives that keep humanity asleep. It does not preach, nor promise easy answers only the courage to look honestly at what we’ve refused to see. If you’ve ever felt that something about the world or yourself isn’t as it seems, this book is your mirror. Not to judge, but to awaken.

  11. El Duelo
    El Duelo
    Comprender, acompañar y elaborar la pérdida
    LB

    «El tiempo lo cura todo». «Tienes que ser fuerte». Quien está en duelo escucha esas frases y se queda más solo que antes.El duelo se ocupa de las dos orillas: la de quien perdió a alguien y la de quien quiere ayudar sin saber cómo. Sin etapas obligatorias ni plazos, explica qué es esperable sentir, dedica un capítulo entero a la culpa, enseña qué decir y qué callar, señala cuándo conviene pedir ayuda profesional y cómo hablar de la muerte con los niños. Riguroso, actualizado y escrito para leerse sin formación previa.

  12. Elements of Programming
    Elements of Programming
    A Treatise on the Foundations of Computing
    Vester Thacker

    Elements of Programming reimagines software as a discipline of logic, structure, and responsibility. Inspired by Euclid, it presents programming through definitions, postulates, and proofs that build a coherent view of computation. From identity and composition to semantics, type systems, and ethics, the book traces how formal reasoning shapes trustworthy systems. It argues that software is not only a technical creation but also a moral one, expressing human intention and consequence. For readers who value precision, clarity, and integrity, this treatise reveals how truth and purpose meet in code.

  13. How to Trick People

    Discover why people get fooled and learn how to reclaim control over your life and decisions

  14. How to Trick People

    Discover why people get fooled and learn how to reclaim control over your life and decisions

  15. Second Order Cybernetics
    Second Order Cybernetics
    Essays for Silicon Valley
    Harish Jose

    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!