Books

Threadborn Echo

Mid-level data analyst Dan Rourke keeps the lights on for federal agencies, working inside a system that predicts risk and quietly reroutes power around trouble. One December night, he jokes about getting lottery numbers from the future. His colleague reacts like he has triggered a security incident, then disappears. Soon after, a Powerball...

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Threadborn Succession: The Future is Deciding (Threadborn Echo Trilogy Book 2)

In this second installment of the Threadborn Echo Trilogy, Threadborn Succession follows Dan Rourke and his family as the systems they helped shape pass into the hands of the next generation, while, centuries later, Natalie Kim begins to uncover what those choices set in motion. Across two timelines, families linked by blood, legacy, and...

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I NEVER MEANT TO END UP HERE: How Work, Curiosity, and Reinvention Built a Career I Never Saw Coming

I Never Meant to End Up Here is the candid, practical memoir of a career built not through a perfect plan, but through hard work, curiosity, setbacks, relationships, and the willingness to keep moving forward.

Michael Talbot began with the kind of work that teaches you to show up: farm chores, restaurant kitchens, and long days learning the...

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Sunrise 2027: The Retailer’s Field Guide to GS1 Sunrise 2027 and the 2D Barcode Transition

The deadline is real. Most of what has been written about it is not.

By the end of 2027, retail points of sale worldwide are expected to read 2D barcodes alongside the linear symbols they have scanned for fifty years. Understand three things before you build a plan. It is a voluntary, industry-led transition rather than a regulation. It is not a...

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A Brief Description of Blockchain: Why It Matters in the Real World

Blockchain is an incorruptible, hacker-safe, shared database hosted by millions of computers simultaneously, and one of the most revolutionary advances since the dawn of the information age. The technology behind Bitcoin and other cybercurrencies, Blockchain has gone much further in recent years with an ever-expanding host of new applications....

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