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Teach Your Grandma to Vibe Code

The Grandma-Proof, Zero-Jargon Guide to Building Real Websites, Apps and Automations with AI

Build real websites, apps and automations with AI, even if you have never written a line of code. A zero-jargon, beginner-first guide that starts at absolute zero.

For: You have never coded.

Published

Teach Your Grandma to Spot a Scam

The Grandma-Proof Guide to Fake Calls, Fake Messages, AI Voices, and Keeping Your Money Safe

A clear, zero-jargon guide to recognizing fake calls, fake messages, AI voices, and the small habits that make people much harder to scam.

For: You want a practical guide to modern fraud without technical language.

Published

Teach Your Grandma to Shop Online

The Grandma-Proof Guide to Groceries, Amazon, Pharmacies, Deliveries, Returns and Buying Almost Anything Without Leaving Home

A grandma-proof guide to groceries, Amazon, pharmacies, deliveries, returns, and buying almost anything without leaving home.

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GROUND

How to Lose Everything and Still Have Somewhere to Stand

A short book about what is left of a person once everything that defined them is gone.

For: You are navigating professional disruption, legal crisis, or personal loss.

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The Road

A Calm Guide to Facing Criminal Charges, for the People Inside It and the Families Beside Them

A practical, step-by-step navigation guide through the criminal justice system for people inside it and the families beside them.

For: You are facing criminal charges.

Forthcoming

The Adaptive Couple

How Two Changing People Stay in Love for a Lifetime

A guide to relationship longevity that examines how roles, rules, and intimacy change as people evolve.

Forthcoming

CIRCLE

A book with no ladder in it

A book about orientation, judgment, and living without ranking people.

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A Good Use Of Time

How to Know Whether an Hour Is Worthy of Your Life

A book about the question beneath time management: whether an hour was genuinely worthy of a life.

For: You are trying to make decisions about time and priorities.

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WNL: Poems Within Normal Limits

Poetry and humor from the world of emergency medicine.

An emergency medicine-centered collection of poetry and humor about physician life, medical culture, clinicians, and patients.

For: Readers interested in physician life and medical culture.

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THE OTHER 95 PERCENT

A Novel & Companion to 'Wounds & Words'

A novel and literary companion to the forthcoming Wounds & Words.

Forthcoming

Wounds & Words

Understanding Self-Harm: For the Person, the People Who Love Them, and the Professionals Who Care

A forthcoming companion book that addresses self-harm directly for individuals, loved ones, and professionals.

Published

Don't Fear the Machine

A book about remaining the driver when using increasingly capable AI.

A book about human agency, responsible AI adoption, and how people can remain the driver while using increasingly capable tools.

Published

Bread, Butter & Jam

Why Commercial Real Estate Can Make You Rich on Paper and Broke in Real Life

A book about commercial real estate, cash flow, liquidity, and the difference between paper wealth and distributable cash.

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If Your Website Person Disappears

The Small Business Owner's Guide to Access, Backups, and Taking Control

A practical small-business guide to domain ownership, hosting access, backups, passwords and website handover, so the business can keep control if its website person disappears.

For: You own a small business website but someone else set up most of it.

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The Bottleneck Principle

How to Find What Is Actually Holding You Back

A practical business and management book about identifying what is actually preventing the outcome that matters.

Published

DESERVE

Why We Keep Asking the Wrong Question

A book about the word deserve, the moral accounts people keep, and the harder questions hidden inside claims about what anyone is owed.

Published

QUESTIONS FOR GOD

What if you could ask God absolutely anything, and God had to answer?

A work of philosophical fiction built as a direct conversation in which a human asks difficult questions and the character called God must answer.

Published

QUESTIONS FOR THE DEVIL

What if you could ask the Devil absolutely anything, and he had to tell you the truth?

A work of philosophical fiction in which a human asks the Devil direct questions and the literary character is constrained to tell the truth.

Published

AT REST

AT REST is a science-grounded literary novel about motion, perception, certainty, family, and the strange possibility that a thing can be relative and still be true.

In Development

THE RULES OF YES

Why People Choose, Trust, Buy and Come Back in the AI Age

A practical operating system for understanding why people choose, trust, buy, return, or quietly say no, across products, businesses and AI-mediated discovery.

In Development

XEO+

Evidence-Based Programming for the Age of AI Search

A data-driven book about making websites understandable, discoverable, citeable and usable by both humans and AI systems, grounded in measured discovery and metadata tests rather than search folklore.

In Development

QUESTIONS FOR MONEY

A book that asks Money the questions people usually ask each other: about enough, poverty, wealth, debt, status, investing, business, family, inheritance, inequality, morality, freedom and what money actually changes in a human life.

Published

Why Aren't We Spheres?

How Nature Builds a World of Different Shapes

Why do drops become round, crystals grow corners, and living things develop limbs? An illustrated nonfiction exploration of how forces, materials, growth and history shape the world.

For: Curious readers who want science explained in everyday language.

Published

Who Put Me in Charge of the Universe?

Belief, control, and what to do when life has other plans

What if Existence pulled up a chair and answered back? A witty, searching conversation about belief, control, connection and meaning, with twelve chapters and six diagrams.

For: Spiritually curious readers

Published

DOCTRINE

Meet the earlier conversation with Existence.

The first book of UPWavers, The Autobiographies of Existence. Sonny Saggar gives Existence a voice and introduces the Universal Model, an imaginative philosophical account of consciousness, connection and being.

Published

BLASPHEMY

Meet the earlier conversation with Existence.

The second book of UPWavers, The Autobiographies of Existence. Existence continues the conversation through the Sphere of Existence, separateness, thought, living and the question of death.

Where Does a Thing End?

Where do you end and the world begin? Skin, breath, tools and relationships challenge the boundaries we take for granted.

Manuscript in development

The Shape of What's Missing

An empty glass, a missing piece, an absent person. How can what is not there shape everything that is?

Manuscript in development

Pieces of Paper

Passports, deeds, certificates and money. How do words on a document acquire the power to change a life?

Manuscript in development

What Holds It Together?

Bodies, relationships and societies depend on more than their parts. What keeps a whole together, and when is separation wiser?

Planned

The Egregore

Can a group create something that begins to govern its members? A curious journey through beliefs, rituals, institutions and collective life.

Planned

When Does One Thing Become Another?

When does a collection become a whole, or a habit become an identity? An exploration of thresholds and transformations.

Planned

A Person Is a Verb

What if a person is something happening? Bodies, memories and relationships invite a fresh look at who we are.

Planned

Who Is Doing the Thinking?

Notice a thought. Who is noticing? An exploration of attention, inherited ideas, the observing self and agency.

Planned

The World Between Things

What do we miss when we study things one at a time? Explore the relationships that make bodies, families and worlds possible.

Planned

The Useful Wrong Answer

When is an imperfect answer useful enough? Models, uncertainty and the art of making decisions without knowing everything.

Planned

Can Anything Be Finished?

A book ends. A building opens. The work continues. What does it mean to call something finished?

Planned

The Same River, a Different Man

A river keeps its name while its water changes. Reflections on continuity, loss and rebuilding a life.

Planned

Why Must It Be This Way?

Some limits belong to nature. Others were invented. How can we tell the difference, and what becomes possible when we ask?

Planned

May I Ask a Stupid Question?

What happens if we do not do that? A celebration of children's questions and the adult courage needed to answer them honestly.

Planned

How Much Is Enough?

Enough money, success, certainty or time. How do we choose a stopping point in a world that keeps offering more?

Planned

Who Gave That Value?

Why does one thing seem priceless and another worthless? Scarcity, status, belonging and endless digital copies complicate the answer.

Planned

Who Put the Computer in Charge?

Rules are followed and absurdity results. Who can question an automatic decision, correct a mistake or take responsibility?

Planned

If Everyone Understood Everyone

If translation became perfect, would we finally understand each other? Words, humour, context and disagreement suggest a more interesting answer.

Planned