How to use AI as a cognitive lever for genuinely novel thinking — breaking out of mental ruts, exploring alien perspectives, and reaching creative territory your brain can't access alone. All the mind-expansion, none of the acid.

A practical guide to leveraging AI for information triage without falling into filter bubbles. Covers attention economics, AI-assisted relevance filtering, the dangers of non-adversarial algorithmic curation, and the underrated art of strategic selective ignorance.

Paxos, Raft, PBFT, Viewstamped Replication, and more — compared and contrasted with brutal honesty. Covers failure models, FLP impossibility, classic and modern consensus protocols, Byzantine fault tolerance, and when to use what. Stop copying what Kafka does and actually understand the tradeoffs.

A no-nonsense guide to Cross-Origin Resource Sharing — the web security mechanism everyone encounters and nobody fully understands. Covers the Same-Origin Policy, preflight requests, credential handling, and every header you'll ever need. Stop copy-pasting Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * and actually learn what's happening.

A rigorous guide to knowledge theory and management — from epistemological foundations through organizational KM practices to the modern frontier. Explores how AI transforms knowledge capture, retrieval, and synthesis, and how anyone can build powerful offline searchable knowledge bases with today's tools.

A deep dive into event-driven architecture patterns, followed by a thorough comparison of event brokers — from mainstream heavyweights like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Pulsar to more obscure options like ZeroMQ, NATS, and Memphis. Covers trade-offs in throughput, latency, durability, and operational complexity.

A deep dive into the fundamental limits of computation, logic, and systems — Gödel, Turing, Arrow, CAP, and beyond. Proven impossibilities and open conjectures that every engineer and thinker should know.

Survey of API communication protocols beyond HTTP — gRPC, MQTT, AMQP, ZeroMQ, Cap'n Proto RPC, and more. Covers tradeoffs, pseudoalternatives, and how to choose.

A love letter to PostgreSQL — exploring how far you can push it as a relational DB, document store, job queue, key-value store, vector database, and beyond. With the right extensions, postgres is enough.

Systems thinking predates writing itself — humans have always reasoned about wholes, not just parts. This book traces that lineage from cybernetics and Forrester's world models to modern complexity science, digital twins, and AI-assisted simulation. What does it mean to think in systems in 2026, and why does it matter more than ever?