Reading Series
.exe: Power as Code
History’s power systems, read like code.
Ancient empires, Marx, communist revolutions, and humanity.exe. Each book treats power like code: written by people, copied by institutions, changed by circumstance, and kept running after its author is gone.
9 booksThere’s no required order. Start wherever you want.
In this series
Browse all books- 01sargon.exeThe story of Sargon of Akkad, history's first empire builder, told as a civilization-hacking origin story.12 min read
- 02hammurabi.exeHammurabi's Code wasn't justice—it was the original power hack, and every law system since has been running his code.15 min read
- 03nebu.exeThe rise and fall of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king who destroyed Jerusalem's Temple and built an empire that seemed eternal — until Persia came.11 min read
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cyrus.exeHow Cyrus the Great built history's first superpower by ruling through respect instead of fear, creating an empire that controlled half the world's population.14 min read - 05
marx.exeMarx's critique of capitalism translated for the gig economy generation—why you feel like you're losing a game rigged before you logged on.26 min read - 06
mao.exeA critical examination of Mao Zedong's rise to power and the catastrophic human cost of his revolutionary experiments, from the Long March to the Cultural Revolution.30 min read - 07
hochi.exeHow Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese resistance outlasted French colonialism and American empire through decades of brutal warfare and covert operations.30 min read - 08
tsar.exeA sharp historical odyssey tracking how the concept of absolute power evolved from Roman caesars through Russian tsars to Putin's modern autocracy.28 min read - 09
humanity.exeHuman history at full speed, from the Big Bang to the 2020s, with the recurring code behind empires, money, nations, collapse, and power exposed along the way.2 hr 58 min read