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  • Your First Useful AI System

    by Shane Larson ...
    You have experimented with AI. Now build something real.Everyone is playing with ChatGPT. Almost no one has built a system that actually does work. The gap between asking an AI a clever question and building a reliable system that saves you ten hours a week is enormous — and almost nothing exists to help you cross it.This book is that bridge.Your First Useful AI System takes you from zero to a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unread Confession

    Chuckwagon, #1

    by Shane Larson ...
    Series Book 1 - Chuckwagon
    He carried the truth two hundred miles. He never read a word of it.Colorado, 1882. Barnaby Krell has ridden shotgun on the Oakhaven line for eleven years, guarding other men's paper across country he knows by the feel of it under a wheel. He cannot read a line of any of it. He has never needed to. A locked box is not an insult; it is a locked box.Then a man comes through a coach window in the rain ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First 1,000 Days

    Builder's Career Series

    by Shane Larson ...
    Series series Builder's Career Series
    Most developer career advice is written for people with ten years of experience. This book is for day one.The first three years of your software development career — roughly 1,000 days — are when everything gets set. Habits form. Professional identity solidifies. Career trajectories either compound or stall. And yet most career books assume you already know how to navigate a codebase, survive code ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Staff Engineer's Paradox

    Builder's Career Series

    by Shane Larson ...
    Series series Builder's Career Series
    The Staff Engineer's Paradox: Staying Technical at Senior Levels Without Managing PeopleYou made staff engineer. Congratulations — now nobody can tell you what your job actually is.Your calendar looks like a manager's. You attend architecture reviews, strategy meetings, and cross-team planning sessions. You write documents more than code. You are supposed to have "influence without authority," ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Justinian and Theodora

    by Shane Larson ...
    Every book about the fall of Rome ends with the same question hanging over the last page: what happened next? This is the answer — and almost nobody outside a history department knows it.Sixty years after the last Western emperor was pensioned off, an aging peasant-soldier's nephew sat on the throne in Constantinople and decided the fall of Rome was a clerical error he intended to correct. ... Read more

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  • Custer and Little Bighorn

    by Shane Larson ...
    Almost everything you know about Custer's Last Stand is a painting, not a battle — and much of it was invented on purpose.On June 25, 1876, nine days before the nation's centennial, George Armstrong Custer led five companies of the Seventh Cavalry into a valley in Montana Territory, and within an hour or two every man with him was dead. The news reached the East during the Fourth of July ... Read more

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  • Kevin Mitnick: The Most Wanted Hacker in the World

    by Shane Larson ...
    A federal judge kept him in solitary confinement for eight months because a prosecutor claimed he could whistle into a telephone and start a nuclear war. That was impossible. Almost none of the mythology was true. This is the real story.Ask anyone to name a hacker and they will probably say Kevin Mitnick. For a decade he was the most famous — and most feared — computer intruder alive: the subject ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geronimo and the Apache Wars

    by Shane Larson ...
    Five thousand soldiers. Five hundred scouts. Three thousand Mexican troops. The newest signal network in the world. All of it deployed to catch about thirty-five people — and they never caught him.In the summer of 1886, the United States Army committed roughly a quarter of its fighting force to the pursuit of one small band of Chiricahua Apaches led by a Bedonkohe shaman in his sixties. For five ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Crusades: Two Centuries of Holy War Between Christendom and Islam

    by Shane Larson ...
    For two hundred years, armies marched east in the name of God—and the world has never stopped arguing about why.In 1095, Pope Urban II stood before a crowd at Clermont and called on the knights of Christendom to take back Jerusalem. What followed was one of the longest, strangest, and bloodiest enterprises in medieval history: a chain of expeditions that toppled cities, built kingdoms in the sand, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Conquistadors' Smallpox War: How Disease, Not Steel, Conquered the New World

    by Shane Larson ...
    The conquistadors didn't conquer the Americas. Smallpox did.The story you learned is tidy: a few hundred Spaniards, armored and ruthless, toppled two of the largest empires on Earth. Cortés outwitted the Aztecs. Pizarro out-marched the Inca. Steel, horses, and nerve against millions. It makes for a thrilling legend — and it gets the weight of history badly wrong.The Spanish brought something far ... Read more

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  • The Bloody Benders: The Family That Murdered Travelers on the Kansas Prairie and Vanished

    by Shane Larson ...
    Dinner was served with the guest's back to a canvas curtain. Most travelers never learned why.In the early 1870s, men kept vanishing along the Osage Mission Trail in southeastern Kansas. They rode alone, they carried cash, and they simply never arrived. Halfway across Labette County stood a one-room cabin doing business as a wayside inn — a German immigrant family named Bender offering hot meals, ... Read more

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  • The AI Automation Playbook: Replace Your Repetitive Work in 30 Days

    by Shane Larson ...
    Most people don't have an automation problem. They have a starting problem.They know AI can handle the repetitive parts of their job. They've seen the tools. They may have even tried a few. But knowing AI is capable and actually having a system that runs without you are two completely different things — and the gap between them is where most people stay stuck.The AI Automation Playbook is a ... Read more

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