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the library · now published

Books for my
favourite people.

Five of them, so far. They lived here for free for a while — then someone agreed to publish them. So they all now carry a modest price tag: roughly one coffee each, and a great deal of vindication.

Browse the shelf What happened?
The First Book of Artificial Intelligence The Second Book of Artificial Intelligence Words Are Everywhere The Third Book of Artificial Intelligence The Complete Guide to Formula One Racing
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A short note about price tags

For a while, every book here was free — writing one turned out to be easier than convincing anyone to publish it, so I skipped that part and put them out myself.

Then, quietly, someone said yes. So these now have price tags — modest ones, mostly proof that a contract exists somewhere with a pseudonym on it.

Even the little grammar book got picked up, which means there is a contract out there concerned entirely with where the comma goes.

If you buy one, thank you — you've funded roughly one coffee and a great deal of vindication. If you'd rather just look, the 'Look inside' button is generous, and I won't tell anyone.

dio.stesso— newly, suspiciously, a published author
The ape sitting on a deck by the sea at dusk, a lighthouse in the distance
a small, stubborn beacon
The shelf

Five books. All published.

Three on how minds and machines think, one on grammar, one on going very fast in circles. More arriving when the ideas insist.

The ape resting under a tree on a cliff, looking away toward the sunset
slightly out of frame, by preference
The author, briefly

I mostly write the book I went looking for and couldn't find.

dio.stesso writes the way some people pace a room — to think out loud. Each of these began as an explanation he couldn't stop giving, and wouldn't abandon until a curious stranger could follow it cold.

The subjects refuse to stay in one lane — thinking machines, the grammar of small humans, the physics of going very fast in circles — but the instinct never changes: take something dressed up as complicated, remove the jargon and the gatekeeping, and hand it over like a gift instead of a test.

He writes for one reader at a time, usually someone who hasn't met the idea yet. If that turns out to be you, the book has done its job — and the author, by preference, stays slightly out of frame.

dio.stesso — the ape in a backwards cap and pixel sunglasses
Say something

Tell me you read it.

If a book helped, confused, or sparked an idea for someone you love — that's the whole point. The best notes start with "this made me think of…".

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Accepted forms of payment: kind words, Hot Wheels, and LEGO. Dollars tolerated, if you insist.