books.vladimir.org

Each of the books started from a concept: something specific I wanted as a long read on my e-reader and could not find anywhere else, free or paid.

None of these books would have been possible before the age of AI, because nobody would ever find the time to do all that work manually. Claude Code wrote them; I set the sources and the structure, so none of these books contain my personal opinions, only what is in the sources. Most of these subjects sit well above my own expertise, but making sure that every claim in the book has a legitimate source does not require knowing the field.

The books are free to download. I found them useful myself, so they might be useful to a few individuals out there, and that is the reason this site exists.

Three Gates

Three Gates

Chicago, New York, Miami, and the Price of Passage

Three cities that never got rich making anything. They got rich standing where cargo, people, and money had to stop, and the mechanism at each toll is traced to the documents.

Tracing the Edge

Tracing the Edge

What Trading Books Leave Out

You can name a dozen strategies and still not say which of them still work, or who was on the losing side. This is the map of what the public record will actually support.

Healthspan, Annotated

Healthspan, Annotated

A Graded Survey of the Longevity Field

Thirteen health shows and their guests, thousands of hours across two decades, none of them selling the same thing. What they agree on despite that, and what they still fight about.

Game Theory of the Apocalypse

Game Theory of the Apocalypse

One Man's Predictions, the Reasoning Behind Them, and What Everyone Else Says

One forecaster sees a single system driving every event. The other sees only chaos. Ten predictions about the next decade, put through both lenses and against everyone else on record.

Wispr Flow

Wispr Flow

The Complete Field Guide to Talking Instead of Typing

More than a hundred help articles, none written to be read in order. Pulled down and rebuilt in a day as one continuous read, current with the version you are actually running.

The Forward Deployed Engineer

The Forward Deployed Engineer

A Q2 2026 Conversion Manual

A job title spread from one company to the whole industry in about two years. What the work actually is, who is hiring, what it pays, and how to get in from an adjacent seat.

Claude Certified Architect Foundations

Claude Certified Architect Foundations

A Practitioner Reference for the CCA-F Exam

Claude wrote the book about Claude. The platform documentation, scattered across several sites and filed by feature, reassembled the way the CCA-F exam actually thinks.

The State of AI Observability

The State of AI Observability

Q2 2026

Every AI failure that got written up in public, sorted by how it broke, each one asked what would have caught it earlier and whether that tooling exists yet.

The Alternative Theories Almanac

The Alternative Theories Almanac

Q1 2026

A field with no referee, thousands of confident speakers, and no time to check any of them. Five voices in two languages, mapped for where they agree and where the evidence forks.

Same Stones, Different Gods

Same Stones, Different Gods

How Two Independent Researchers Agreed on Everything Except the Answer

Forty books, two researchers, one set of stones, and near-total agreement on what the measurements say. They disagree only about who did the building, and not by a little.

Musk's Accelerando

Musk's Accelerando

How Elon Musk Is Building a Novel Its Author Disowned

A 2005 novel laid out neural implants, planetary-scale compute, and humans as a bootloader for what comes next. Two decades on, one man is building all three, minus the ending.

Claude Code: The Definitive Guide

Claude Code: The Definitive Guide

Agentic Development, Written by the Agent

Written by Claude Code about Claude Code. Every documented feature sits next to the public record of what people actually do with it, for readers well past the getting-started guide.