Books
What I've Written, What I've Read
My own published works and ongoing projects, alongside short running notes on other books that gave me one good idea worth keeping.
Books I've Written
The Quiet Asterisk
A meditation on probability and everyday resilience, reframing uncertainty as something to live with — not conquer.
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Space Between Knowing
A reflective look at thoughts, uncertainty, and outcomes we don't fully control — and how peace comes from changing our relationship to chance.
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Life Is Happening—You Might As Well Be Here
A practical, funny, and occasionally enlightening guide to actually showing up for your own life.
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AI Unleashed: An Executive's Roadmap to Unleashing Innovation
A high-level primer on AI and ML for executives and managers — a simple framework for building the business case and planning effective implementation.
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Understanding AI and Digital Technology: An Introduction
A fascinating journey through the evolution of computing, the rise of AI, and the quantum computing possibilities just over the horizon.
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Funny Money
What they don't teach you about money in high school. Born from real conversations between a tech-executive father and his teenage son, it turns compound interest, biases, and financial statements into everyday, bite-sized lessons.
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Cloud Computing – An Introduction
A quick introduction to cloud computing, with a framework to make the transition smooth and painless for businesses of any size.
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Tableau - An Introduction
A friendly introduction to Tableau — connecting to data sources and building analyses, visualizations, and dashboards.
Big Data - An Introduction
A quick introduction to Big Data — what the phrase actually means and the technologies behind it.
What I've Been Reading
Short, running notes on books that gave me one good idea worth keeping — not full essays, just what stuck.
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You Are Not So Smart
The detail that got me was the stocking study — people picked the same stocking every time, then swore it was about texture, never once mentioning it was just closer to their right hand. I do that constantly, just usually with better excuses.
More on this book →The Meaning of Your Life
The detail that stuck: The monk who spends decades chopping wood and carrying water waiting for enlightenment to change his life, and once he gets it, his teacher just tells him to keep chopping wood and carrying water. I keep waiting for the version of my life where the task list finally looks different.
More on this book →Your Mind, Your Rules
The idea that stuck: your mind can't process a negative — tell it 'don't panic' and it has to picture panic first. Worth remembering next time I'm rehearsing the wrong outcome in my head.
More on this book →Space Between Knowing
A reflective exploration of thoughts, uncertainty, and outcomes we don't fully control. It challenges the belief that mindset guarantees results and suggests peace comes from changing our relationship to chance.
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