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Are you passionate about building thriving and inclusive communities? Do you want to make a positive impact on the lives of people around you? Look no further than "Community Development Frameworks: Building Thriving and Inclusive Communities." This comprehensive guide is specifically crafted for individuals actively involved in community development and planning, regardless of their level of experience. Whether you are a beginner or an expert in leading groups, this book offers practical insights and frameworks that can be readily applied to your own community development projects. The ...

Most books explain what Retrieval-Augmented Generation is. This one makes you build it. Over six hands-on labs and a capstone project, you grow one code base into an enterprise-grade RAG system on PostgreSQL + pgvector and Groq. Each chapter adds exactly one capability to the same system, so by the last page you own a working stack – and the architectural judgment to defend every decision inside it. What you will have built A private knowledge store on PostgreSQL upgraded into a vector database, with parent-child chunks linked by foreign keys An ingestion pipeline for messy real-world ...

Starting a business is exciting - until legal paperwork, taxes, cash flow, accounting, marketing, and conflicting advice make everything feel overwhelming. You do not need more hype. You need a clear roadmap. Start a Business, LLC & Amazon FBA Bible brings together three powerful frameworks into one practical system for entrepreneurs who want to launch, structure, protect, and grow with confidence.

How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research - before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants. With a combination of open-ended interviewing and fast and flexible research techniques, you’ll learn how your prospective customers behave, the problems they need to solve, and what frustrates and delights them

Most products don’t fail at launch. They fail in the thinking that comes before it. Every year, teams spend months building products nobody needs, launching features nobody finds, and shipping roadmaps nobody trusts. The Art of Building Products is the playbook for doing it differently, written by a product and program leader for everyone who builds: product managers, engineers, designers, founders, and the people who run the work. No theory for theory’s sake. Every chapter opens with a real situation: the context, the numbers that mattered, and why it played out the way it did. Then it...

You’ve got the idea. You crave freedom, flexibility, and fulfillment. But then reality hits - legal forms, business plans, taxes, operations. Where do you even start? Most businesses don’t fail because the idea is bad, but because the execution is flawed. Entrepreneurs get stuck in confusion, skip key steps, or burn out trying to do everything alone.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the authors of Click and former Google Ventures partners, Sprint presents a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies. Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to...

Building AI Applications with Foundation Models: Create Real-World LLM, RAG, Agent, and Multimodal Apps from Prototype to Production Build AI apps that move beyond flashy demos and hold up in real software projects. Many developers can call an AI API. Fewer know how to turn that model call into a reliable application with clean code, structured outputs, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, security, and deployment. Are you tired of tutorials that stop at a chatbot? Do you want to build LLM apps, RAG systems, AI agents, and multimodal workflows that can actually support users, documents, tools, ...

Build AI Agents That Actually Work in Production — Not Just in Demos. If you've watched AI agent demos go viral on Twitter only to fail the moment you try to deploy them in the real world, this book was written for you. Agentic AI Systems with Manus is a complete, code-first blueprint for designing, building, securing, and monetizing production-ready autonomous agents — the kind that survive real users, real costs, and real failure modes. This isn't another "prompt engineering" book. It's a systems engineering manual for the agentic AI era, covering everything from your first API call ...

Struggling to build a profitable online business that actually lasts? You are not alone. Every day, thousands of people dream of escaping the 9-5, building online income, and gaining true financial freedom. Yet most never get past the starting line. They get overwhelmed by outdated advice, shallow "guru" promises, or content that talks about success without showing the real steps to build it. You do not need shortcuts. You need a clear, proven blueprint.

You have the dream, the vision, and the drive. Now you need a roadmap. Starting your own business can feel overwhelming. Legal paperwork, taxes, branding, marketing, operations—where do you begin? LLC Startup Blueprint is your straightforward guide for launching and growing a Limited Liability Company. Whether you want a side hustle or a full-time business, this audiobook walks you through every essential step.

Hypnotic Writing Lab: Mastering the Art of Building Trust and Connection Through Overt and Covert Hypnotic Narratives Unlock the true power of your words. Hypnotic Writing Lab: Mastering the Art of Building Trust and Connection Through Overt and Covert Hypnotic Narratives reveals how to craft stories that don’t just captivate—but connect on a deep, transformative level. This is more than a book of writing exercises. It’s an invitation to master the art of influence, persuasion, and emotional resonance through the subtle power of hypnotic storytelling. In this lab, you’ll learn how ...

Unlock the transformative potential of nonviolent activism and become a catalyst for positive social change with this comprehensive training manual. Rooted in the principles and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this guide empowers individuals to embrace the powerful philosophy of Kingian Nonviolence and create a more just and compassionate world. Prepare for action by understanding the importance of education, research, and strategic planning in driving effective nonviolent campaigns. Gain insights into successful coalition building and advocacy efforts while embracing the values of ...

Ever been part of a really tough project? So tough that you had to eat a teammate? Unfortunately for an infamous group of pioneers, the effort to migrate to California reached those depths of project failure. Fortunately for us, we can use their story and other, historical examples to underscore the value of clear expectations. Whether it's a tragic journey west, the loss of a spacecraft (for the second time), or the creation of a chatbot that turned into one of the nastiest personas on the Internet, failed projects share a common trait; expectations could have been more clear. ‘MAP. ...

Transform Your Stories. Transform Your Audience. What if your stories could do more than entertain? What if they could immerse, captivate, and inspire profound transformation? Transcending Narratives invites you to explore the powerful intersection of hypnotic techniques and storytelling, crafting performances that resonate across the senses and deeply engage the subconscious. Built on a year of dynamic exploration and insights from leading a hypnotic writers’ group, this guide provides step-by-step strategies to turn linear handwritten narratives into immersive multimodal performances. ...

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY ESSENTIALS: A CONCISE GUIDE AND PRIMER An indispensable guide for individuals seeking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of technology strategy. The goal of this book is to provide a clear and concise overview of key frameworks and models that are essential for developing effective technology strategies, making it an ideal resource for students, entrepreneurs, and managers. Written in a crisp and easy-to-read format, the book covers a wide range of topics including the technology life cycle, innovation diffusion, disruptive innovation, open ...

This book provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to building and deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) from the ground up. It is designed to be a practical, hands-on manual for students and developers, prioritizing implementation and application over abstract theory. Its primary objective is to demystify the end-to-end lifecycle of an LLM, presenting it not as an arcane art but as an engineering discipline that can be learned, practiced, and mastered. We dispense with unnecessary jargon and abstract theory, focusing instead on a direct, hands-on, and step-by-step methodology. My ...

AI Can Now Create a Week's Worth of Content in 10 Minutes. So What Makes Yours Worth Reading? Every platform is flooding with AI-generated blog posts, YouTube scripts, newsletter editions, and social media captions. The content that used to take you hours to create? AI does it in seconds. And it's getting better every month. Here's what nobody in the creator economy wants to say out loud: competing on volume is a losing game. You will never out-produce AI. You will never publish faster, optimize more aggressively, or churn out more variations than a machine that doesn't sleep, doesn't burn ...

He drew four boxes on a whiteboard and canceled 70 percent of the company. Steve Jobs is the most imitated leader of the last fifty years, and almost everyone has copied the wrong half. The turtleneck. The rudeness dressed up as high standards. The word magical in a press release. Lead Like Jobs goes after the other half: the method nobody saw. The dozens of hours of rehearsal behind a ninety-minute keynote. The weekly meeting whose only purpose was to kill products, including profitable ones. The recruiting question that landed John Sculley. The manila envelope that made a spec sheet ...

Unlock the full potential of Artificial Intelligence with Pydantic AI in Production, your essential guide to building robust, scalable, and intelligent LLM agents. Are you a Python developer or data engineer eager to move beyond theoretical AI concepts and deploy real-world solutions? This hands-on book is meticulously crafted for you. In a landscape where AI models often produce unpredictable outputs, mastering data validation and structured data handling is paramount. This book bridges the gap between raw LLM capabilities and production-ready applications, showing you how to leverage ...