Published Books
Delusions of Grandeur: Unsuccessful Products, Innovations, Businesses, & Science: Learning from Others Mistakes, and Avoiding the Graveyard of Dreams (Volume 1)
*** Now available on Amazon ***
Description: As we march ever onward, fueled by an insatiable desire for progress. We envision utopias built on gleaming innovations, dreaming of products that revolutionize lives and businesses that reach for the stars. Yet, the path of human endeavor is littered with the wreckage of good intentions, with grand designs that crumbled into grand delusions. This book is not an ode to failure, but a sobering exploration of its shadow. It delves into the stories of products that flopped, innovations that went nowhere, businesses that failed, and scientific ventures that yielded nothing. It shines a light on the miscalculations, the unforeseen turns of fate that sent promising dreams crashing down to earth.
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Ninety Seconds From Midnight
The Coming Global Recession and Next World War
*** Now available on Apple Books ***
Our world stands on the precipice of immense change, facing a multitude of converging crises. From soaring living costs and economic instability to a shifting global power balance and technological disruption, the ground beneath our feet feels increasingly shaky. Political polarization fuels social unrest, while climate change wreaks havoc on our environment, threatening food and water security. Cyberwarfare and disinformation erode trust, and the specter of another world war looms large. A global health crisis, driven by unhealthy lifestyles and environmental factors, further burdens individuals and societies. This book doesn't sensationalize, but rather shines a stark light on these simmering truths, urging us to confront the challenges before they become insurmountable.
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Mastering Learning Python 3: In Five Minutes:
The Quick and Easy Way for Beginners to Learn the Python 3 Programming Language using 5 Minute Lessons.
*** Now available on Amazon ***
This book is an introduction to Python for anyone who wants to learn to program in the language. No matter if you are trying to just learn to program in Python to enhance your skills or build a next generation web application. Over the years Python has consistently ranked as one of the world's most popular computer programming languages that people are learning. While no programming language is perfect for all tasks, this language does a great job. Python is amazingly versatile and is used in many different fields to perform a variety of different operations. It is used for everything from creating automation, doing data analysis, performing machine learning, and much more. All the lessons in this book are broken up into 5 minute segments to simplify learning at your own pace. You can do one, ten or more lessons a day, it is up to you how fast or slow you want to go. All the code examples and samples are designed to be easy to read and understandable.
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Mastering macOS: Ventura Tricks, Hacks and Secrets
*** Now available on Apple Books ***
This book will help you get started with some basics and then help you to quickly advance your skills to more sophisticated topics. If you are already an expert Windows or Linux user switching to the macOS, this book will help you configure your system to meet your needs and teach you things you may not already know. There is no such thing as a perfect OS, and I will give you all the information about the good, bad, and ugly in an understandable way to help you get the most out of the operating system.
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Mastering iOS 16.0 and 16.1: Tricks, Hacks, & Secrets
*** Now available on Apple Books ***
Apple's iPhone and iOS offer beautifully designed hardware, a mobile operating system, and built-in apps. This book has been created to help you take full advantage and show you how to leverage the new features of the iOS 16.0 and 16.1 upgrades, including the latest information about the iPhone 14 series. While avoiding wasting your time by not offering you the basic information you already know. It explores how to take advantage of the new functionality that has been added to the core operating system. As it will show you hundreds of tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets for existing built-in core iOS apps, services, and features. It will reveal how to take advantage of these technologies now. It will also help you to fully leverage all the capabilities that have been incorporated into your iPhone by this operating system upgrade.
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Waste Revolution, The Next Trillion Dollar Industry
*** Now available on Amazon ***
This book is for anyone who wants to learn what they can do individually, as a group, as a business, members of government, innovators, or philanthropists that want to make a difference. It is the changes that we make as a whole working TOGETHER to reduce the waste we generate that will make a difference. Waste could also be the next multi-trillion dollar industry. Individuals, businesses, and governments are looking for solutions to help them fix or deal with the current problems that are already here and those that will come. It will be these pioneers that will have to do this for three reasons. First, to protect the environment, and try to stop climate change. Second, to prevent the current situation from getting worse and try to give the planet a chance to repair itself. And third, because it has the potential to generate a lot of money.
Turning Garbage to Gold
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Power User Guide: Mastering Cryptocurrencies (2021 Edition)
*** Now available on Amazon ***
Every few generations, there is a 'killer app' (i.e. the spreadsheet, email, etc.). These are apps that change the industry in such a way that changes the way people work. The current killer app is Bitcoin, because it is essentially allowing software to generate money from 'mined' data. Bitcoin also started the cryptocurrencies and Blockchain movement that is revolutionizing the financial industry. Each of these two technologies has started whole new movements that are creating new companies, wealth, and products.
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Power User Guide: Google Android Tips, Tricks and Secrets (2021 Edition)
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This book is for any user that uses an Android mobile device (such as smartphone or tablet) that wants to become a power user of it. You will learn how to leverage all the best features of this mobile operating system. As well as learning how to utilize all the best customization and personalization options that are available to you. You will learn about apps, OS features, uses for your Android device that you may not have known existed or were available. These tips should work on most Android mobile devices (i.e.: smartphones, tablets, etc.), running version 11 or higher of the OS.
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Power User Guide: Google Search Tips, Tricks and Secrets (2021 Edition)
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Google has been known as the ‘command line of the Internet’. Anyone can go to Google.com and do a basic search and find almost anything they’re looking for. Did you know that the real power of Google comes from using search operators and not very obvious features that allow you to refine your searches even more. Google also has many hidden features and Easter eggs that you have to learn about to know how to be able to take advantage of them.
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Power User Guide: Google Search Tips, Tricks and Secrets (2021 Edition)
Unleash the Power of Google Search
*** Now available on Amazon ***
Google has been known as the ‘command line of the Internet’. Anyone can go to Google.com and do a basic search and find almost anything they’re looking for. Did you know that the real power of Google comes from using search operators and not very obvious features that allow you to refine your searches even more. Google also has many hidden features and Easter eggs that you have to learn about to know how to be able to take advantage of them.
This book was created to provide a quick reference to all of Google’s advanced search features and services. It demonstrates how to refine your search to take full advantage of the power of this website’s features. It also reveals how to make your searches more accurate.
Be aware that the company seems to be on a never ending quest to make itself more useful so that people will keep coming back to use its products and services. They’re constantly changing how things work by adding and removing features and services.
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Power User Guide: Google Chrome Tips, Tricks and Secrets (2021 Edition)
*** Now available on Amazon ***
The web browser such as Google Chrome have evolved over the last two decades into a swiss army knife of apps (which I refer to as a 'Universal App'). It has become more than just an app for accessing our favorite website. It has become a universal interface to managing our data (personal and business), devices and more.
More of the things we do and use every day are not done in just apps but done on websites that utilize cloud-based services (for storage, applications, etc.). Here is a question, think of your life without your browser?
In my books, I will not bore you with useless information and what you may already know (such as how to do basic things on the web like opening a web page). My books are designed to help you learn about what you don't know. Google Chrome does not have a lack of hidden features and functionality that most people might not even realize is there.
As Google Chrome is a multi-platform browser (supporting Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and Google OS), this book is as well. Any distinct differences in features for these platforms is pointed out in the different related sections.
Some of these features are hidden because they are experimental (i.e. not ready for primetime). Some of this functionality is for people who are developers or IT Professionals to troubleshoot problems with web pages. While even other features are for the individual user to enhance or customize the experience, and troubleshoot problems with existing websites that they might have. I will show you how to exploit these features so you can take full advantage of the browser.
My books are generally written for all levels of experience, from beginner to advanced. This book expects that you have a general knowledge of how to use a computer and browser, and you know how to perform basic day-to-day operations.
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Power User Guide: macOS Catalina & Big Sur Tips, Tricks, Secrets.
*** Now available on Apple Books ***
I try to write all my books to meet the needs of all levels of experience, from beginner to expert. If you are new to the macOS, then this book is for you. If you're an existing intermediate or expert macOS user who has been using it for years, then this book is still for you. Everyone will learn new things that you did not know about and want to keep around as a reference for later.
This book will help you get started with some basics and then help you to quickly advance your skills to more sophisticated topics. If you are already an expert Windows or Linux user switching to the macOS, this book will help you configure your system to meet your needs and teach you things you may not already know. There is no such thing as a perfect OS, and I will give you all the information about the good, bad, and ugly in an understandable way to help you get the most out of the operating system.
If you were a previous user of Windows or Linux, switching to Mac can take effort. The macOS is not just a turn on and everything works the way you might expect. Like any OS, there is a learning curve that this book helps you overcome, and saves you hundreds of web searches, looking for how to do little things like getting access to the Delete key functionality, on a Mac keyboard.
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The New Grey (Technologies of Mass Disruption)
*** Now available on Amazon ***
As technology advances, we have to look beyond the finite thinking of a task, will it be a human or a machine’s responsibility. We need to look at how we can use Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to enhance the task so that it can be performed better, faster, at a lower cost and a higher quality without destroying the human contribution in the process.
This is where ‘New Grey’ thinking comes into play; it’s when things are not black or white, and they are grey. The New Grey is a hybrid thinking on how to utilize the best features of A.I., while partnering it with the best aspects of human intellect.
A.I. can be a game-changer for businesses trying to process all this data or for whole new product categories. Although, It's not a magical buzzword that can be added to any product and will automatically improve it. Although, A.I. can make a product or service smarter when implemented correctly.
A.I. can also give organizations the ability to find trends in data that a human might not be able to see. Although, in the end, we must never forget that it is the humans that are the consumers or benefactors of this information.
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Evolve or Perish: The Origins of a Successful Business
(Surviving the Pandemic)
*** Now available on Amazon ***
In the wild it is all about the ‘survival of the fittest’, where the strong survive and the weak are culled and generally become food for the strong. This is how evolution has worked for millions of years, the strong will procreate and carry on, while the weak have to survive on what is left.
Businesses have always replicated a living system, because in many ways they are an extension of the owners, employees and customers. Because they are living systems they need to evolve to survive the changing needs of the marketplace. If they stay stagnant they will die.
This book shows you how to help avoid being another failed business statistic, and how to be more successful than your competitors. By following the advice in this book, it will help guide you to avoid the common pitfalls and mistakes that many business owners make.
While the information in this book was written to help you grow and thrive in normal day-to-day situations. It also has been updated and expanded with advice on how to help you grow and thrive in abnormal situations like this pandemic.
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SRE/DevOPS Kubernetes Development/Management Series
*** Now available on Amazon ***
If you are (or want to be a) Site Reliability or DevOPS Engineer who wants to manage Kubernetes clusters. This reference series is designed for you to quickly find the information that you need to help you to work more efficiently.
This book series will also help you get the most out of Kubernetes and the related technologies by providing technical information about them. As well as references about how to take full advantage of the related tools subcommands and options.
Books in the series:
The Ultimate SRE/DevOPS Reference: docker (Managing Docker and Containers)
The Ultimate SRE/DevOPS Reference: kubeadm (Building a Kubernetes Cluster)
The Ultimate SRE/DevOPS Reference: kubectl (Managing Kubernetes Clusters)
The Ultimate SRE/DevOPS Reference: minikube (Kubernetes Development Cluster)
The Ultimate SRE/DevOPS Reference: Kubernetes (Advanced Kubernetes Topics)
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Power User Guide: Linux Tricks, Hacks and Secrets
*** Now available on Amazon ***
Linux runs on everything these days, from things as small as watches, IoT devices (such as a Raspberry Pi, and other single board computers), smartphones, laptops, desktops, servers, network devices, and even mainframes. Linux is also used by many cloud services for management or running infrastructure, on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
Books in the series:
Power User Guide: Linux Tricks, Hacks and Secrets [Volume 1]: Bash Systems Reference (2019 Edition)
Power User Guide: Linux Tricks, Hacks and Secrets [Volume 2]: Bash System Reference (2019 Edition)
Power User Guide: Linux Tricks, Hacks and Secrets: Ultimate Edition (2019) Volumes 1 & 2