Reading Series
.exe: Power as Code
Rulers, empires, and ideologies treated like executable programs that keep running through history.
How 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.
Hammurabi's Code wasn't justice—it was the original power hack, and every law system since has been running his code.
How Ho Chi Minh and Vietnamese resistance outlasted French colonialism and American empire through decades of brutal warfare and covert operations.
A irreverent, fast-paced romp through all of human history from the Big Bang to ancient dynasties, written like a sarcastic tech manual for the species.
A 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.
Marx's critique of capitalism translated for the gig economy generation—why you feel like you're losing a game rigged before you logged on.
The rise and fall of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king who destroyed Jerusalem's Temple and built an empire that seemed eternal — until Persia came.
The story of Sargon of Akkad, history's first empire builder, told as a civilization-hacking origin story.
A sharp historical odyssey tracking how the concept of absolute power evolved from Roman caesars through Russian tsars to Putin's modern autocracy.