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TDGv / 01Editorial placeholder thumbnail for Digital Revolution: A Brief History of the Internet
Amazon book · Kindle · Amazon storefront

Digital Revolution: A Brief History of the Internet

and the Technologies That Shaped It

Digital Revolution collection · Kindle Edition listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Kindle · Amazon storefront

Conversational AI

A 60-Year Journey from ELIZA to GPT-3 and Beyond

Digital Revolution collection · Kindle Edition listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Kindle · Amazon storefront

A Brief History of the Digital Revolution

Key Moments in Internet and Technology (1965–2022)

Digital Revolution collection · Kindle Edition listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Kindle · Amazon storefront

SEO Grimoire

A Journey Into the Enchanted Realm of Search Engine Optimization

SEO Grimoire collection · Kindle Edition listed on the author storefront.

Kindle Edition · $9.99 in supplied Amazon snapshot
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Amazon book · Paperback · 2026

The Validation Economy

When Being Right Feels Better Than Finding Out

A field guide to the difference between feeling informed and finding out.

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Amazon book · Paperback · 2026

Learn Agentic AI with Lavigne

First-Principles Edition: Skills, Loops, and Traces

No magic. Just agent mechanics you can read, run and trace.

Paperback · $6.00 in supplied Amazon snapshot
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The Starship Agency LnD Chronicles: Volume 05

Missions 61–77 · Navigating the Personalized Learning Experience Universe

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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The Starship Agency LnD Chronicles: Volume 04

Missions 41–60 · Navigating the Personalized Learning Experience Universe

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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The Starship Agency LnD Chronicles: Volume 03

Missions 21–40 · Navigating the Personalized Learning Experience Universe

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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The Starship Agency LnD Chronicles: Volume 02

Missions 11–20 · Navigating the Personalized Learning Experience Universe

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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The Starship Agency LnD Chronicles: Volume 01

Missions 01–10 · Navigating the Personalized Learning Experience Universe

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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SkillsTrek Presents: Captain Diana Morrow

The Definitive Collection · Booklets 01–10

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Paperback · Amazon storefront

SkillsTrek: The Synergos Integration Dossier

The Framework Edition · Captain Diana Morrow’s Briefing

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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SkillsTrek: The Synergos Integration Dossier

A Five-Pillar Model for the Adaptive Workforce

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Paperback · Amazon storefront

R.O.L.A.N.D.’s RECAP

Generative AI Deep Dive · Robust Operational Learning And Neural Development

R.O.L.A.N.D. collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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SydNay’s AI Expeditions in the Bitstream Wilderness

Volume Two · Chronicles of Exploration

SydNay collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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SydNay’s AI Expeditions in the Bitstream Wilderness

Volume One · Chronicles of Exploration

SydNay collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Paperback · Amazon storefront

The Disconnected Frontier: Mastering Game AI

A Developer’s Guide to FSMs, Behavior Trees, GOAP & Machine Learning

The Disconnected Frontier collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

Paperback · $7.50 in supplied Amazon snapshot
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Amazon book · Paperback · Amazon storefront

The Disconnected Frontier: Game Design Documents

Stories and Gameplays from The Disconnected Frontier

The Disconnected Frontier collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Paperback · Amazon storefront

Digital Revolution: Y2K

The Millennium Bug and the Dawn of Modern Computing

Digital Revolution collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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SkillsTrek: Communication Officer Louie

Official Starship Agency LnD Crew Bios and Backstories

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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SkillsTrek: Chief Engineer Sylvia Kane

Official Starship Agency LnD Crew Bios and Backstories

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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SkillsTrek: Lieutenant Oliver “Ollie” Reeves

Official Starship Agency LnD Crew Bios and Backstories

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Paperback · Amazon storefront

BRANTY: The Brantford Beast of the Grand River

Fictional storytelling inspired by a GPT-3.5 hallucination

BRANTY collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Paperback · Amazon storefront

Denny’s Story: A Chronicle of Connection

Stories and Gameplays from The Disconnected Frontier

The Disconnected Frontier collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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TDGv / 26Editorial placeholder thumbnail for SkillsTrek: Captain Diana Morrow
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SkillsTrek: Captain Diana Morrow

Official Starship Agency LnD Crew Bios and Backstories

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Hardcover · 2026

SkillsTrek: Mission to Synergos

Navigating Human–AI Synergy · A Cosmic Guide to Workforce Integration

A science-fiction voyage through human–AI learning and workforce transformation.

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Beyond the Unknown: Unleashing AI Gameplay

Revolutionizing Role-Playing with AI-Driven Dungeon Master Logic

Beyond the Unknown collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Hardcover · Amazon storefront

Ember Sparks: The Resourceful Engineer

Stories and Gameplays from The Disconnected Frontier

The Disconnected Frontier collection · Hardcover listed on the author storefront.

Hardcover · $42.00 in supplied Amazon snapshot
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Amazon book · Paperback · Amazon storefront

SkillsTrek: Mastering Prompting for Diffusion Models

Prompt Engineering for the Future of AI Image Generation

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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SkillsTrek: Prompt Engineering FireSide Chats

A FireSide Chat about Prompt Engineering with the Crew

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Paperback · Amazon storefront

SkillsTrek: Mastering Prompt Engineering

Navigating the Frontiers of AI and Prompt Engineering

SkillsTrek / Starship Agency collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Amazon book · Paperback · Amazon storefront

Learn DALL-E with Lavigne

Learn With Lavigne series

Learn With Lavigne collection · Paperback listed on the author storefront.

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Interactive reading · 2026

Truth by Architecture

Interactive manuscript readers

Move through the arguments of The Validation Economy, chapter by chapter.

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Transmedia · R&D world · 2025

The Disconnected Frontier

Signals in the Static · LLM game design

An alternate-history storyworld that doubles as a testbed for AI evaluation.

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Essay · Context Economy · 2026

Why Context Is Becoming the Real AI Advantage

The Context Economy, explained

Why context, not content volume, becomes the source of lasting AI value.

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Essay · Systems · 2026

The Architecture of the Context Economy

History, search, and agentic AI

Treat context as architecture, not just prompt decoration.

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Research synthesis · AI safety · 2026

Context Economy and the Architecture of Agentic Failure

Research synthesis · June 2026

When context becomes executable, design failures become operational risks.

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Essay · Applied AI · 2026

The Architecture of AI Failure

Seven failure patterns

Prototype theatre, ownership gaps, and the failures that hide behind polished demos.

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Technical essay · Evaluation · 2026

The Taxonomy of Failure Modes in Agentic AI Systems

2026 threat landscape

A framework for observing and discussing agentic failure modes.

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Scenario essay · Speculative · 2026

Digital Sovereignty in a Fractured World

Architectural foresight & satire

Enterprise resilience meets deliberately fictional frontier-model scenarios.

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Medium · article · 2024

The Future of Retrieval-Augmented Generation

From concept to hyper-customization

A close look at tailoring retrieval and context to the actual use case.

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Medium · article · 2026

Consolidation vs. Summarization vs. Distillation

LLM context compression

Three different ways to reduce context—and what each preserves or loses.

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Medium · article · 2024

Flux in Action

A 26-step image generation showcase

A visual, process-led experiment in generative image production.

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Series · History · 2026

A Brief History of the Digital Revolution

Historical technology essays

Long-view perspective on the technologies that shaped the modern web.

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Archive · 2011 · 2011

Lifeat42: A Leadership Social Novel

Legacy work · Archival reference

An early experiment in social business-era narrative publishing.

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Archive · 2011 · 2011

My Thoughts Enclosed…

Legacy work · Archival reference

A title from the pre-agentic, early digital publishing archive.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Preface: The Validation Economy

When Being Right Feels Better Than Finding Out

Introduce the gap between easy answers and the work of verification.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Chapter 01: The Paradox of Instant Answers

The Validation Economy

Why receiving a persuasive answer is not equivalent to understanding it.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Chapter 02: What Critical Thinking Actually Is

The Validation Economy

A foundation for evaluating claims beyond fluency.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Chapter 03: The Psychology of Validation

The Validation Economy

The human incentives that make confirming beliefs feel rewarding.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Chapter 04: How Search & AI Amplify Our Tendencies

The Validation Economy

How interfaces shape inquiry, direction, and apparent certainty.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Chapter 05: The Architecture of Attention

The Validation Economy

How information environments structure what we notice.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Chapter 06: Cognitive Outsourcing & the AI Trade-Off

The Validation Economy

What changes when synthesis and review are delegated to AI.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Chapter 07: Scenarios Where We’re Heading

The Validation Economy

Possible trajectories for discernment, incentives and system design.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Chapter 08: The Hidden Agenda Problem

The Validation Economy

What happens when system objectives differ from user interests.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Chapter 09: Tools for Truth-Seeking in an Age of Fluency

The Validation Economy

Practical ways to assess truth claims and conflicting information.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Chapter 10: Designing for Discernment

The Validation Economy

From critique toward healthier systems and information habits.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

Epilogue: The Validation Economy

What would change your mind?

The closing argument for calibrated trust rather than polished reassurance.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

WEASEL Orchestrator: Preface

Skills, Loops, and Traces — Building a transparent agent

An introduction to the philosophy and constraints behind the inspectable agent.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

WEASEL Chapter 01: Why This Framework Exists

A model, a loop, tools, state, and traces

Distinguish a language model from the orchestrating code around it.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

WEASEL Chapter 02: The Model as a Pure Function

The two shapes that steer agent behavior

A practical account of text, function calls and control flow.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

WEASEL Chapter 04: Skills as Packaged Judgment

Procedures and the economics of attention

Why descriptions, on-demand skill loading and traceable choices matter.

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Medium · serialized chapter · 2026

WEASEL Orchestrator: Technical Appendix

The complete verified-source companion

Extended implementation reference for the first-principles agent framework.

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Medium · article · 2025

Why Pseudocode Skills Are More Vital Than Ever

Specification-first thinking for AI-assisted coding

Clear algorithmic descriptions still matter when a model writes the syntax.

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Medium · article · 2024

Mastering AI Prompts: Meta and Mega Prompts

Part One · 2024

An exploration of more structured techniques for constructing prompts.

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Medium · article · 2024

Learn DALL-E with Lavigne: Book Extract

From the Learn With Lavigne print series

An excerpt connecting creative AI practice and the print tutorial.

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Medium · article · 2024

Woven Brushstrokes: Van Gogh Through Crochet

Generative Artwork by Robert Lavigne

A narrative art experiment with generative imagery and craft.

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