Book library

Trading, retirement, science, and evidence.

Start with the subject that brought you here. The trading and financial section now includes the current retirement-income and options books, while the science titles remain available below.

Trading & retirementThe Steady Retiree Portfolio book cover

The Steady Retiree Portfolio

A conservative, tax-aware approach to retirement income without chasing yield.

Category 1

Trading and Financial Books

Retirement-income, options, and portfolio books focused on trade-offs, risk, taxes, total return, and repeatable decision rules.

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Retirement investing

The Steady Retiree Portfolio

A Conservative, Tax-Aware Investment Plan for Retirement Income Without Chasing Yield

A practical framework for thinking about retirement income, taxes, cash reserves, portfolio risk, and the temptation to chase high distributions.

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Rule-based income framework

The Zero-Delta Income Engine

A Mechanical Framework for Tax-Efficient Retirement Income

A rules-based retirement-income framework built around disciplined risk management and repeatable portfolio decisions.

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Options and total return

The Covered Call Trap

Why Option Income Is Not Free Money

A plain-English examination of covered-call premium, capped upside, downside risk, rolling, taxes, and the difference between cash distributions and total return.

Category 2

Weather and Climate

Four general-reader atmosphere books plus one specialist monograph on verifying areal rainfall from sparse gauges.

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Atmosphere Explained · Book 1

What Greenhouse Gases Really Do

They Don't Turn Up the Sun—They Redistribute Heat

Beginning with a house and its insulation, this book explains the actual physics of greenhouse warming without slogans or unnecessary equations.

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Atmosphere Explained · Book 2

Why the Tropics Matter

A Guide to Tropical Weather and Its Global Reach

The ITCZ, trade winds, monsoons, hurricanes, and the circulation links that make tropical weather important far beyond the equator.

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Atmosphere Explained · Book 3

The Restless Molecule

Water, Air, and the Physics of Weather

Water's phase changes, energy transfers, clouds, precipitation, and the physical processes that make weather possible.

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Atmosphere Explained · Book 4

When Air Masses Collide

Fronts, Storms, and Why Forecasts Are Hard

Mid-latitude weather, fronts, cyclones, jet streams, and the practical reasons daily forecasts remain scientifically difficult.

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Technical monograph

The Noncontiguous Rain-Gauge Method

A Working Guide to Verifying Areal Rainfall from Sparse Point Gauges

For satellite-rainfall researchers, hydrologists, meteorologists, climate-data analysts, and graduate students.

Category 3

Evidence and Scientific Thinking

Three books about probability, adaptation, evidence, uncertainty, and the discipline of changing one's mind when the facts require it.

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Evidence

What Would Change Your Mind?

On Certainty, Evidence, and the Courage to Be Wrong

A practical examination of intellectual humility, belief revision, disagreement, and the difference between confidence and evidence.

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Probability

Chance of Rain

What Probability Really Means in Everyday Life

Weather forecasts, rare events, base rates, models, climate, AI, markets, and practical decisions under uncertainty.

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Evolution and algorithms

Evolution in a Box

How Genetic Algorithms Show Adaptation Without Foresight

A clear demonstration of how variation, selection, inheritance, and feedback produce adaptation without a plan for the final result.

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