Technology Development

Jericho Rolland has completed his first interstellar trading voyage on the family trader Mattin with a seemingly impossible level of success. He has also seen to every problem he can think of for the orphanage he was forced to grow up in. Now, feeling much more confidant in the future he can provide for himself, Jericho finally feels he can handle going to see the home he started to grow up in, the one his trust is required to return to his possession when he turns eighteen in a little over five years. The Randle family gives him a ride to his once and future home. Instead of finding the ...

Jericho continues to work on developing his fleet in preparation for the Norvandans. He isn’t sure when they will come, but hopes it will be after he can properly be ready for them. Before trying to goad the Norvandans into attacking, Jericho has many things to accomplish. Among them is to continue the economic development of the Korson Cluster and initiate the evacuation of the Jamrualians to Arcadia. The evacuation itself starts without a hitch, however, some of the Jamrualian politicians find a way to jump ahead in the line of evacuation. Jericho’s reaction is both rapid and ...

Orphaned at six and sent to an orphanage, Jericho Rolland discovers an interstellar sim when he’s eight. Soon realizing actual trading like this will be the focus of his life. He applies his massive intellect and drive toward preparing himself for that goal. Knowing he can go to space at twelve, Jericho starts setting things up six months before his birthday. The only resistance he runs into is with the interstellar bank. The bank officials really don’t know who they are tangling with, but they find out much to their regret. At Twelve, when many of his almost always brilliant ancestors ...

After receiving a very tempting offer from the commanding officer of the family trader ship Mattin, one which Jericho Rolland has to defer, he heads off for Union System, the last of the four trading hubs in Agency Space he has yet to visit. There, Jericho is going to make an effort to create his fourth trading hub. One would think the folks there would have heard something about what Jericho has accomplished in the other three hubs, however, that seems to not be true. With having all the family traders and most of the system’s miners in one room, they prove to be a somewhat contentious ...

Jericho Rolland has been offered the second mate’s position on the Fancy Days. That berth should be all he needs to meet the first part of the quest to own and operate his own large trader. Jericho should be able to earn his unlimited master’s license. With the Fancy being in the shipyard’s hands for the next several months, he decides to take the Desert Rose out on a salvaging run, with his current girlfriend and the Fancy’s first mate as crew. Little does Jericho realize the two women may be into each other, just as much as his girlfriend is into him. Even the first mate develops ...

Launching the Colony is the first of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows teenager Ricky Cruz and his family as they migrate from their successful farm to be first wave settlers on the newly terraformed planet Murna. Ricky becomes part of the crew as a repair technician and shuttle pilot. Plagued with problems from the start, Ricky begins investigating the source of the problems and discovers their ship has been deliberately sabotaged in an attempt to prevent them from being the first settlers on their new home, therefore preventing ...

With the family trade ship Mattin going into the shipyard for an extended overhaul, Jericho Rolland is left without a berth for the first time since he was twelve. Now twenty-one, Jericho is already one of the richest people around. He figures it may be time to start learning not only how to take care and expand his financial empire, but also how to actually live a life beyond being a trader. As he approaches twenty-five, the siren call of space starts to sing in Jericho’s ear with just a whisper that only grows louder with time. A chance meeting with a likeable old codger in a bar leads ...

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line. Meanwhile, someone with half your skills just automated their entire workflow, launched a side income stream, and did it all with the same tool sitting open in your browser right now. The difference wasn't talent. It was knowing how to talk to Claude like a professional instead of guessing like a tourist.

Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development. Now, 20 years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse.

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Educator and neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath reveals why digital tools in school consistently undermine learning—and what parents, teachers, and schools can do to push back with purpose. Our children are struggling. Schools, once alive with human connection, are now dominated by...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and performance expert Josh Cavalier shares his in-depth knowledge and skills to help L&D professionals master learning experience design by using generative AI in their employee learning and development efforts. More than just a technical manual on generative AI or a collection of best prompt practices, this book explores how AI is reshaping jobs, skill development, and human performance. Cavalier provides his Learning and Development AI Ecosystem framework as a practical road map for integrating AI into your day-to-day work and your organization.

Abyssal Archive features the most comprehensive fan analysis of the Dark Souls mythos ever undertaken. We set out to pay tribute to Miyazaki's legendary game by crafting something that embodies the same care and attention to detail that makes Dark Souls itself such a peerless work of art.

"Dr. Leonard Sax's The Collapse of Parenting should be required reading for all parents."―Dr. Nancy Kehoe, author of Wrestling with Our Inner Angels In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of depression and anxiety among young people...

Gravity doesn’t just pull apples from trees—it shapes our bodies, minds, and even our emotions. In PULL, Brennan Spiegel, M.D. reveals how this invisible force influences everything from digestion to depression—and how building gravity resilience can help us find balance, stand stronger...

What if AI could help you become a sharper thinker, a stronger decision-maker, and a more powerful version of your intelligent self? Artificial intelligence is transforming how we work, create, and solve problems. But its greatest potential may be this: helping us strengthen the very human capacities that lead to better choices, deeper insight, and more meaningful results. In The Judgment Advantage, Maria Ian shows readers how to use AI to sharpen judgment, improve decision-making, and think with greater clarity and confidence.

From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five senses—from tropical Polynesian islands to forbidding arctic ice floes, and everywhere in between. Whether it’s the mighty pyramids of...

Every one of your favorite influencers started with zero followers and had to make a lot of mistakes to get where they are today - earning more money each year than their parents made in the last decade. But to become a top creator, you need to understand the strategies behind the Insta-ready lifestyle.

A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded ""cold start problem”—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale...

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