It Begins With Me: A Sales Blueprint merges proven sales techniques with powerful lessons in self-awareness to help readers unlock their full earning potential. Drawing from over 25 years of experience, the author shares insider strategies, practical exercises, and motivational insights designed to boost sales performance and personal growth. This book is both a refresher for seasoned professionals and a roadmap for those new to sales, offering timeless principles often overlooked in the hustle of closing deals. Core lessons include resilience in adversity, mastering emotional control, and embracing a growth mindset. Readers are guided to cultivate discipline, push past obstacles, and internalize success habits that separate top performers from the rest. Inspirational stories, actionable tips, and bold concepts like “There is no tomorrow” inspire readers to act decisively. Whether seeking professional advancement or personal transformation, this blueprint delivers essential tools for lasting success in sales and life.

It Begins With Me: A Sales Blueprint merges proven sales techniques with powerful lessons in self-awareness to help readers unlock their full earning potential. Drawing from over 25 years of experience, the author shares insider strategies, practical exercises, and motivational insights designed to boost sales performance and personal growth. This book is both a refresher for seasoned professionals and a roadmap for those new to sales, offering timeless principles often overlooked in the hustle of closing deals. Core lessons include resilience in adversity, mastering emotional control, and embracing a growth mindset. Readers are guided to cultivate discipline, push past obstacles, and internalize success habits that separate top performers from the rest. Inspirational stories, actionable tips, and bold concepts like “There is no tomorrow” inspire readers to act decisively. Whether seeking professional advancement or personal transformation, this blueprint delivers essential tools for lasting success in sales and life.

Leadership isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about asking better questions—and becoming the kind of person others want to follow.

In Becoming the Compass, Ryan Crittenden, Ph.D., delivers a powerful leadership fable set in Horizon Valley, where trust is fading and top-down control is the norm. Through the story of Alex—a rising leader caught between pressure and possibility—readers are taken on a journey of transformation, courage, and authentic growth.

Mentored by the wise and grounded Casey, Alex begins to challenge toxic leadership models and instead learns to lead from within. Along the way, he uncovers four guiding principles that reshape how leaders show up for their teams:

Relational Strength
Authentic Presence
Purposeful Resilience
Growth Through Challenge

Perfect for emerging leaders, team leads, and those questioning outdated leadership norms, Becoming the Compass blends story with strategy to guide readers toward more meaningful, people-centered leadership.

This is more than a leadership book—it’s a narrative that invites you to become the kind of leader others want to follow.

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One day in a San Francisco lab, an AI model trained on every scientific paper ever written may ask its creators, "What theorems exist beyond human knowledge?"

This wouldn't be a glitch. It would be a prophecy.

Our AI systems are consuming human knowledge faster than civilization can produce it. GPT-4 devoured more text than exists in all the world's libraries. Its successors demand exponentially more. By 2026, we'll exhaust the internet. By 2028, we'll run out of words to feed our hungry machines.

Then what?

Then AI must teach itself.

The Absolute Zero Reasoner (AZR) represents a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence—a system that learns through pure self-play, starting with nothing but a trivial function: return x. Like a child learning to walk by falling and trying again, AZR proposes mathematical and coding challenges to itself, attempts solutions, and learns from verifiable outcomes. No textbooks. No training data. No human guidance.

Through this elegant dance of self-improvement, it discovered how to solve complex mathematical theorems and write sophisticated algorithms that would challenge PhD students—all from that single line of code.

This book unveils the revolutionary mechanics of autonomous learning, drawing parallels to AlphaZero's mastery of chess but extending far beyond games. AZR employs three fundamental reasoning modes—deduction (predicting outputs), induction (inferring patterns), and abduction (reverse engineering inputs)—each verified through the unforgiving judge of code execution and mathematical proof.

The results shatter expectations: 83.5% accuracy on advanced coding challenges, solving 20% of problems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, all while surpassing systems trained on hundreds of thousands of human examples.

This isn't incremental progress—it's exponential self-improvement. While traditional AI hits a ceiling defined by human knowledge, self-improving systems have no limits except the laws of physics and mathematics themselves.

Through hands-on examples and breakthrough research, you'll discover how to build systems that bootstrap their own intelligence. We reveal why self-improvement isn't just an alternative to human training—it's the inevitable path to artificial general intelligence.
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Leadership isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about asking better questions—and becoming the kind of person others want to follow.

In Becoming the Compass, Ryan Crittenden, Ph.D., delivers a powerful leadership fable set in Horizon Valley, where trust is fading and top-down control is the norm. Through the story of Alex—a rising leader caught between pressure and possibility—readers are taken on a journey of transformation, courage, and authentic growth.

Mentored by the wise and grounded Casey, Alex begins to challenge toxic leadership models and instead learns to lead from within. Along the way, he uncovers four guiding principles that reshape how leaders show up for their teams:

Relational Strength
Authentic Presence
Purposeful Resilience
Growth Through Challenge

Perfect for emerging leaders, team leads, and those questioning outdated leadership norms, Becoming the Compass blends story with strategy to guide readers toward more meaningful, people-centered leadership.

This is more than a leadership book—it’s a narrative that invites you to become the kind of leader others want to follow.

Read more

One day in a San Francisco lab, an AI model trained on every scientific paper ever written may ask its creators, "What theorems exist beyond human knowledge?"

This wouldn't be a glitch. It would be a prophecy.

Our AI systems are consuming human knowledge faster than civilization can produce it. GPT-4 devoured more text than exists in all the world's libraries. Its successors demand exponentially more. By 2026, we'll exhaust the internet. By 2028, we'll run out of words to feed our hungry machines.

Then what?

Then AI must teach itself.

The Absolute Zero Reasoner (AZR) represents a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence—a system that learns through pure self-play, starting with nothing but a trivial function: return x. Like a child learning to walk by falling and trying again, AZR proposes mathematical and coding challenges to itself, attempts solutions, and learns from verifiable outcomes. No textbooks. No training data. No human guidance.

Through this elegant dance of self-improvement, it discovered how to solve complex mathematical theorems and write sophisticated algorithms that would challenge PhD students—all from that single line of code.

This book unveils the revolutionary mechanics of autonomous learning, drawing parallels to AlphaZero's mastery of chess but extending far beyond games. AZR employs three fundamental reasoning modes—deduction (predicting outputs), induction (inferring patterns), and abduction (reverse engineering inputs)—each verified through the unforgiving judge of code execution and mathematical proof.

The results shatter expectations: 83.5% accuracy on advanced coding challenges, solving 20% of problems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, all while surpassing systems trained on hundreds of thousands of human examples.

This isn't incremental progress—it's exponential self-improvement. While traditional AI hits a ceiling defined by human knowledge, self-improving systems have no limits except the laws of physics and mathematics themselves.

Through hands-on examples and breakthrough research, you'll discover how to build systems that bootstrap their own intelligence. We reveal why self-improvement isn't just an alternative to human training—it's the inevitable path to artificial general intelligence.
Read more