Knowledge library

What was actually worth it.

There's an infinite amount of AI content and a finite amount of your attention. Here's what earned mine — the certifications I took and the books that shaped how I think.

Certifications & courses

AI Fluency for Builders (4D Framework)

Completed

Anthropic

The clearest mental model I've found for working with AI deliberately rather than reactively. Free, short, and worth it for anyone starting out.

Certified — Auditing Generative AI

Completed

ISACA

Bridges my risk background with the AI world. Practical if you sit anywhere near governance, audit, or compliance.

Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP)

Studying

IAPP

Currently working through the Body of Knowledge (v2.1). I'll publish a full cost + study-plan breakdown once I sit the exam.

Books & essays

Short, honest takes — not summaries. Read the ones that pull at you.

The Untethered Soul

Michael A. Singer

The one that reframed how I relate to my own noisy mind. The calm underneath all this building starts here.

Find Your Why

Simon Sinek

Gave me the language for the thing this whole site is built around — clarity and depth in a rushed, shallow world.

Deep Work

Cal Newport

The case for focus as a superpower. Increasingly the whole game as AI makes shallow output free.

The Adolescence of Technology (essay)

Dario Amodei

A grounded, non-hysterical way to think about where AI is actually heading. Worth the read even if you disagree.

More coming — including a full cost + study-plan breakdown of the IAPP AIGP once I sit the exam. This library grows as I do.