You've been pushing on the same problem for months, and the harder you push, the more stuck you get. The answer isn't more effort. It's a change in angle. Solve It Sideways teaches you to break free from straight-ahead thinking and find solutions that others miss.Most people solve problems the way they appear, using the same tools they used last time. But when the terrain changes, the old tools stop working. This book gives you a repeatable system for reframing questions, ...

“The reason you love Jamie (or are about to) is because she says exactly what the rest of us are thinking, but we’re too afraid to upset the apple cart. She is a voice for the outlier, and we’re famished for what she has to say.” --Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author of Of Mess and Moxie and For the LoveWildly popular blogger "Jamie the Very Worst Missionary" delivers a searing, offbeat, often hilarious memoir of spiritual disintegrati...

Every developer carries a graveyard of half built apps. Folders with promising names, GitHub repos with a single commit, and to do apps that never made it past the setup screen. If you have rewritten the same idea 3 times in different frameworks, stayed up until 4 AM wiring a database nobody will ever see, or abandoned a project the moment the interesting part was finished, this book was written for you. It is a humorous, honest, and deeply practical guide to the 47 unfinished apps that li...

There is a kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how many hours you worked or how many tasks you completed. It comes not from the effort itself but from the silence that follows it. You put in the work. You show up when no one is asking you to. You make progress that no one can see. And the world does not seem to notice. This silence can feel heavier than any criticism because criticism at least confirms that someone is paying attention. The absence of acknowledgment creates a str...

You've been pushing on the same problem for months, and the harder you push, the more stuck you get. The answer isn't more effort. It's a change in angle. Solve It Sideways teaches you to break free from straight-ahead thinking and find solutions that others miss.Most people solve problems the way they appear, using the same tools they used last time. But when the terrain changes, the old tools stop working. This book gives you a repeatable system for reframing questions, challengi...

You picked up this book because you have watched the developer world change around you. You have heard the word agent repeated in every conversation and every job posting, but you are not sure what it means or how to build one. Maybe you already use AI coding assistants daily and you are ready to stop typing every command and start building systems that work on their own. You may worry this requires a machine learning degree or months of study. It does not. What you need is a clear, practi...

You picked up this book because you are running on empty, because the mornings come too early and the list never ends, and because you have whispered the same prayer a thousand times while nobody was listening. You love your children, and you are tired in a way that sleep does not fix, and you have started to wonder whether your exhaustion means your faith is failing. Or maybe you are the mother who hides it well, who shows up for everyone and quietly collapses at the end of the day. Whate...

There is a kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how many hours you worked or how many tasks you completed. It comes not from the effort itself but from the silence that follows it. You put in the work. You show up when no one is asking you to. You make progress that no one can see. And the world does not seem to notice. This silence can feel heavier than any criticism because criticism at least confirms that someone is paying attention. The absence of acknowledgment creates a str...

One's a ball of sunshine. The other's a cloudy day. When a missing hockey stick brings them together, it's Icing on the Cake.Gerard Gunnarson, the charming and outgoing right winger of Berkeley Shore University's hockey team, is used to being in the spotlight. With the mysterious Ice Queen—a blogger documenting his every move—and a legion of adoring fans, Gerard seems to have it all.Elliot Montgomery, a grumpy and introverted student, prefers spend...

Discover the new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life continue to encourage, challenge, and influence, lovingly performed by Daniel Jonce Evans, Jeff Chu, Jamie Wright, Sarah Bessey, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Kristen Howerton, Kaitlin Curtice, Amanda Held Opelt, Rev. Neichelle R. Guidry, Ph.D., Candice Marie Benbow, Kathy Khang, the Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D., and Amena Brown.Rachel Held Evans is widely recognized for her th...

During World War II, Germany, Japan, and Italy built approximately 2,000 small, inherently stealthy, naval craft to perform special operations and conventional naval missions.Much more numerous and more technically advanced than their Allied counterparts, they saw service worldwide, operating in the Pacific, Mediterranean, Black Sea, Indian Ocean, North Sea, and the English channel. Manned by courageous crews, these vessels made daring attacks on Allied ships in he...

During World War II, Germany, Japan, and Italy built approximately 2,000 small, inherently stealthy, naval craft to perform special operations and conventional naval missions.Much more numerous and more technically advanced than their Allied counterparts, they saw service worldwide, operating in the Pacific, Mediterranean, Black Sea, Indian Ocean, North Sea, and the English channel. Manned by courageous crews, these vessels made daring attacks on Allied ships in he...