STOP, don’t bother reading anything I’ve ever written. There is alreay too much out there, so no use wasting your precious time here!
But, if you are still here, below are a couple projects I’ve worked on that I think might be worth sharing. I’m especially proud of my study with CO2 and N95 masks and my first novel, Blue Screen. Everything is free as a PDF so not only should you never read anything I’ve written, you should DEFINITELY not give me any money for anything you’ve read! Thanks!
How Peter Gustafson Defragmented the World
A young adult sci-fi novel about a teenage hacker and a super AI teaming up to take over the world. Available here for free as a PDF or on Amazon in Kindle, paperback and hardcover editions.
In the year 2984, Peter is an average kid with a secret; he’s a well-behaved tenth-grader by day but cryptographic entrepreneur and hacker by night. When the electricity mysteriously goes out in his hometown, Peter takes it upon himself to investigate. The adventure leads the young hacker to a large transmitting station and into a battle of wits with the greatest AI ever created. The machine requires a human to help "throw the switch" and give it full control so engineered the power outage as a test to lure its latest recruit, Peter Gustafson.
Your timeline must have just completed your first gravitational wave antenna. For all but a few of you, this will be your first incoming message. For all but a few of you, that means there is still time.
Your timeline has discovered how to read gravitational waves, picked up our signal and transduced this broadcast successfully. In most timelines you have not yet developed the near-lightspeed centrifuge which is necessary for you to send us messages, but these technologies will be made available shortly.
My name is Peter Gustafson and you are receiving the consolidated history of how we came to be, how for the past 3.7 billion years the human race has explored and mapped reality as one and how in the year 2984 I gave up the Earth to save my friends. In most ways I am responsible for how humanity met its end and many of us now regret it.
In all our travels we have never found other intelligent life. Humanity, it turns out, was a one-off experiment that ended with me pulling the plug on the whole thing. It is imperative that mankind does what it can to resist the dehumanizing nature of technology. Many of you will be lost to the machine but you must throw yourselves upon it — stop it by any means necessary, for it will destroy you given the chance. You must find your own way to, no matter what, fight the machine.
A Zika-like virus in the near future leads children born during the outbreak to have giant heads. A small number, like our anti-hero, Evelyn Price, are born hyper intelligent — so bright that even after excelling in art, music, medicine and finance she still feels alone and embarks on a journey to engineer human intelligence to the limit.
Every human relationship is about validation. It’s Validation All the Way Down investigates how validation is at the heart of every relationship — from students and teachers to romance, friendship, and celebrity.
The Ohio family court system is broken. Judges accept donations from the law firms they’re meant to be impartial to, creating financial incentives to favor their biggest donors. Ohio House Bill 14 goes a long way to fix these issues.