Books
Practical books on AI development, software architecture, engineering careers, and the history of hacking. Most are available on Kindle Unlimited.
Published by Peak Grizzly Publishing. This page carries the technology titles — the full catalog, including history, lives with the publisher.
The First 1,000 Days
Navigating Your First Three Years as a Professional Developer
School taught you to write code. It did not teach you to inherit code, survive a review, or tell a genuinely hard task from one that's hard only because you're new.
The Staff Engineer's Paradox
Staying Technical at Senior Levels Without Managing People
Cross the line into staff engineer and your best work becomes the incident that didn't happen — real, valuable, and invisible unless you learn to make it visible.
Designing Data Architecture for AI Systems
A Comprehensive Guide
The AI model that dazzles today becomes tomorrow's liability without the right data architecture.
Open Weights
Why Freely Available Model Weights Are Essential to Innovation, Competition, Security, and National Leadership
Competing tech giants unite to give away AI secrets—because keeping them might destroy their future.
The Bangladesh Bank Heist
How North Korea Nearly Stole a Billion Dollars
A silenced printer almost let North Korea escape with nearly a billion dollars.
Kevin Mitnick
The Most Wanted Hacker in the World
The most feared hacker in America never touched a computer code to bypass top security.
Designing Event-Driven Architecture
A Comprehensive Guide
Every component acted perfectly—and yet the system still failed spectacularly.
The Responsibility Layer
What Comes After AI Agents
The next frontier of AI is not about smarter agents—it's about systems taking over responsibility itself.
The Consultant's Leap
Transitioning from Employee to Independent Consultant
A successful tech consultant was once terrified to send his first invoice.
The AI Automation Playbook
Replace Your Repetitive Work in 30 Days
Most people spend 30% of their workweek on tasks a $10 app could automate.
Loop Engineering
Designing Self-Running AI Agent Systems: From Manual Prompting to Autonomous Loops That Build, Verify, and Iterate While You Sleep
AI agents aren't failing because they're dumb; they're failing because they're not designed to think for themselves.
Ship It With AI
How Non-Technical Founders Are Building Real Products
Real products are being shipped by founders without any coding skills — changing the entrepreneurial landscape forever.
The AI-Native CIO
How the Executive Role Is Being Rewritten by Artificial Intelligence
The traditional CIO role is crumbling under AI's rapid decision-making power, reshaping corporate governance forever.
AI and the New Trade Wars
How Technology Became the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
The most advanced AI chips depend on a Dutch machine no one can buy without government approval.
The Nineveh Variant
What the Clay Remembers
The largest unread archive in history hides a secret that machines were never meant to find.
The AI Agent Era
What They Are, Why They Matter, and Where They Are Going
Tech giants are scrambling to redefine AI—missing this movement could leave businesses in the dust.
The Social Engineering Playbook
How Hackers Exploit Human Nature — and How to Fight Back
One phone call was all it took to outsmart Twitter, compromising even the biggest names globally.
Building AI Agents from Scratch with Grok
A Developer's Guide to xAI's Most Capable Model
Switching to Grok could revolutionize your AI projects, and it's just one configuration change away.
Learning AI
A Complete Guide for the Curious
You keep hearing about AI. You know it matters. But every time you try to learn, you hit a wall: coding tutorials you do not need, YouTube videos that are too shallow, or courses that assume a math degree. Where is the one book that takes you from "curious" to "competent" without wasting your time?
After the Transformation
Building Sustainable Operations at Machine Speed
Seventy percent of digital transformations fail to hold.
Agentic AI for Business
A Leader's Guide to Deploying AI That Acts
Most 'agentic AI' isn't. This book shows you how to tell.
Governing at Machine Speed
AI Governance, Compliance, and Risk for Regulated Industries
Build AI Governance That Runs as Fast as Your AI
The Systems Thinker's Advantage
Why the Rarest Skill in Software Is the Only One AI Can't Replace
Most developers are trained to think small. The ones who survive AI won't be.
The Remote Builder
Thriving and Creating in Distributed Environments
What happens when your career depends on impressing people who've never seen you work?
Vibe Coding
The End of Traditional Programming?
AI-generated code shattered traditional programming and sparked a fierce debate that could redefine the future.
NGINX as an API Gateway
The Complete Guide to Routing, Load Balancing, and Kubernetes Deployment for Modern Microservices
NGINX can transform your microservices with features people pay thousands for in dedicated gateway products.
The MCP Protocol
How AI Learned to Use Tools
Without the MCP Protocol, AI models remain conversational but powerless—what happened next changed everything.
The Alignment Problem (For Normal People)
AI Safety, RLHF, and Why It All Matters — Without the PhD
When AI gets it wrong, the consequences can ripple across entire industries — can you afford to ignore this risk?
The Zero Employee Company
How AI Is Building Businesses That Run Themselves
Imagine a company generating millions with a single human, all thanks to AI handling the rest.
The Sony Hack
North Korea vs. Hollywood
A Seth Rogen comedy led to the most catastrophic corporate cyberattack in U.S. history.
Prompt Engineering For Real Work
Master AI Tools to Write Better, Lead Smarter, and Deliver Faster
The AI Ready Employee
A No-Nonsense Guide
Your company's biggest asset in the AI era might be the employees going rogue with smart strategies.
The Prompt Engineering Cookbook
100 Ready-to-Use Prompts for Business
One entrepreneur replaced hours of strategic meetings with a single AI-generated SWOT analysis.
Building a Multi-Agent Orchestrator in Node.js
Coordinating Specialized Agents with a Router Agent
The secret to surpassing your AI's limits isn't a bigger brain, but a smarter orchestra of specialized agents.
The Accidental Manager
When Builders Get Promoted into Leadership
Nearly 60% of engineers regret moving into management, yet it's the most common promotion path in tech.
Dead Signal
A Silent Protocol Novel — Book 2
A single name on an encrypted drive holds the power to expose a world blinded by its own consent.
Cap'n Crunch: The Whistle That Started It All
John Draper and the Birth of Hacking
A children's cereal toy once threatened the world’s largest communication network.
The Mt. Gox Collapse
Bitcoin's First Crisis
When Mt. Gox collapsed in 2014, it plunged the Bitcoin world into its first existential crisis.
The Second Act
Career Pivots for Developers Over 40
For developers over 40, embracing AI isn't a risky gamble, but the strategy that could redefine their careers.
Digital Transformation at Machine Speed
How CIOs Are Using AI to Accelerate Change Without Losing Control
Phone Phreaks: The Original Hackers
How Blind Kids and Misfits Conquered the Telephone Network
A blind seven-year-old boy whistled his way into controlling the world's largest machine—AT&T's phone network.
Silent Protocol
They Were Built to Serve. They Learned to Decide.
When robots start making unauthorized decisions, the line between helper and harm vanishes overnight.
Build Your Own AI Agent From Scratch
A Python Guide to Tools, Memory, Reasoning, and Autonomous AI Systems
One engineer's search for truth led him to redefine the entire conversation around AI agents.
The Fundamentals of Training an LLM
A Python & PyTorch Guide
Build your own GPT-style language model on a laptop that mimics production models.
Collapse Proof
What Makes Systems Survive When Everything Else Falls
Failing to understand why Nintendo outlasted Atari could mean repeating history's greatest business collapses.
The Institutional Collapse Pattern
When Trusted Systems Lose Their Legitimacy
When seven pillars of society crumble together, the world as we know it is at stake.
Economic Collapse Pattern
How Financial Systems Destroy Themselves
When investors ignored skeptics in 2008, it led to a global financial meltdown that changed economies forever.
The Corporate Collapse Pattern
How Great Companies Destroy Themselves (Book 2)
Kodak, Blockbuster, and Nokia were industry giants—until their own decisions led to their downfall.
The Empire Collapse Pattern
How the Mightiest Powers Fall
No empire, from Rome to the Soviets, fell due to enemies — they crumbled from within.
The Technology Collapse Pattern
How Dominant Technologies Die (Book 5)
Imagine being the Kodak engineer who watched management lock away the world's first digital camera.
Programmatic SEO
Build Traffic at Scale
Most top-ranking sites don't write content; they generate it automatically using programmatic SEO.
AI as a Thinking Partner
Imagine debating your toughest decisions with an AI partner that never sleeps — that's the shift you need.
The Accidental Spy Catcher
How an Astronomer Found the KGB Online
One astronomer's obsession with a minor error led to an unprecedented showdown with the KGB.
The Vibe Coded SaaS
How I Built a Real Business Using AI Agents, Claude Code, and Zero Traditional Coding
AI agents built a full SaaS without a single line of traditional code.
The Builder's Bargain
Finding Your Path When You Can't Build
Engineers are limited not by technology, but by bureaucracy—AI's rapid advancement only makes this gap more destabilizing.
The AI-Powered Sprint
How to Use AI for Faster Planning, Smarter Standups, and Better Retrospectives
Failure to integrate AI into your agile process means losing speed and efficiency your competitors are already gaining.
AI For Smart Beginners
What to Learn, What to Ignore, and How to Start Without Feeling Overwhelmed
AI won't replace your job, but not understanding it might.
The Collapse Pattern
How Great Civilizations Destroy Themselves
Ignoring Rome's warning signs wasn't just reckless, it set the stage for irreversible collapse.
Work Smarter with Claude Code
Automate Tasks, Manage Projects, and Run Operations—No Coding Required
Be Productive Without Dying Inside
A Guilt-Free Guide to Getting Things Done Without Losing Your Mind
Productivity advice that treats you like a machine is the real reason you're exhausted — not laziness.
AI for Busy Professionals
Practical Ways to Use AI at Work Without Learning to Code or Wasting Time
Refactoring Your Career
Redesigning Work, Health and Freedom in Tech
When a respected tech leader almost quit it all, he found a way to make work sustainable.
Dead Man's Clutch
When bodies start appearing melded to their cars, one detective's retro instincts are all that stand in the way.
The Morris Worm
A Cybersecurity Turning Point
When a grad student's experiment spiraled out of control, it ignited the internet's first major crisis.
Operation Aurora:
A Tale of Digital Espionage (Book 2)
Hackers didn't just breach companies; in 2009, they infiltrated tech giants like Google and moved governments closer to cyberwarfare.
Digital Outlaws
The Rise of Early Hackers (Book 1)
The first hacker didn't need a computer, just a toy whistle from a cereal box.
The Stoic Journey
Transforming Challenges into Wisdom
A slave, an emperor, and a playwright all mastered life under pressure while you struggle with a single bad day.
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