
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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.