V.E. SchwabThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives, or to find strength in a very long one.
No. 06 of 09
Juvoni explores the multidisciplinary art of learning how to learn, to live a high-agency life, taking on problems no single skill can solve, using your own creative intelligence.
- Engineer, designer & product manager.
- Founder, community builder & experiential designer.
- Writer, reader & public speaker.
Working on
- Writing four essays from the playa.
- Reading Return to the Brain of Eden.
- Building agentic workflows.
Updated October 2026
On the desk · four essays from the playa
One drafted, three to go. Nothing published yet.
- 1Building the camp management platformPlanned · Nobo
- 2Building a Google Photos alternative with ImmichPlanned · Playa Lens
- 3Building the marketing side with DDEV on WordPressPlanned · Nobo Blog
- 4
What Burning Man Taught Me About Agentic Engineering
Lessons from deploying agentic systems under extreme environmental and operational constraints at Burning Man: tool design for ambiguity, graceful degradation, observability under stress, and human override.
In draft. Not published.
On the nightstand · 32 books
The newest start on the left.
Started between January 2023 and February 2026.The bookshelf
Writing
Five to start with
- 20167 min
The Edge of Tomorrow's Habits
We are what we repeatedly do.
- 201410 min
Discovering how to love reading, to read more and smarter
I hated reading when I was younger because it seemed like I was being sentenced to read as a punishment or forced to read something of little importance to my interests.
- 20189 min
The 5 Most Important Mindsets for Growth
The most important mindsets to cultivate to aid in the journey in becoming a better version of yourself.
- 20164 min
Reflections on Mortality and the Drive for Success
A discussion came up around the observation that for some people the fear of death cripples them and prevents them from truly living and for other's it gives them a spark to live.
- 20163 min
The Emotional Journal
Emotional Intelligence contains multiple areas that include knowing one's emotions: Self-awareness, Managing emotions, and Motivating oneself.
2026 in three words.
I choose them from the problems of the years before, so I know what to do when I don’t.
Transmute
A pledge to lean more into my inner alchemist to transfer and create. To meet change with change.
Harvest
Planting seeds can be a comfort zone. It’s time to harvest and receive even a fraction of the goodwill I’ve put out into communities and the world.
Honor
A quest to become a better leader and increase the weight and consistency of my word and actions.
Library
Recently added
Added to the site between Mar 2026 and Oct 2026. Most were read years earlier.
Born a CrimeWow! What a life! (thus-far). Trevor Noah, shares stories of his childhood growing up in…
Poor Charlie's AlmanackReading Poor Charlie's Almanac is like going on an adventure. Everything isn't always neatly…
Psycho-CyberneticsAn incredibly insightful book by a plastic surgeon who explores how our self-image shapes…
ReactA gentle introduction for beginners, but I was expecting a little bit more and felt the…
Six Easy PiecesIf all scientific knowledge were lost and you needed a sentence to pass on to rebuild the…
Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsA narrative based tour of the essential physics discoveries that have changed the world and…
Highlights
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Anti-library
Help me pick my next book.
Books I own but have not read yet. Vote for the one I should read next.
AI Engineering
An Elegant Puzzle
Range
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
The Culture Code
Common Wealth
Every vote counts toward this season’s pick.
Tools I use
All 134 tools
herdrTerminal workspace manager for running and supervising several coding agents…
Wispr FlowAI voice dictation that turns speech into clean text in any app
Hermes AgentNous Research's open-source agent that remembers across sessions, builds its own…
How We FeelEmotional check-in app developed with Yale researchers for tracking and…
RunnaPersonalized running training plans and coaching app with structured workouts
MyMindAI-powered visual bookmarking tool that auto-tags and organizes saved content
The principles I try to live by.
The parts of me that show up in everything I read, build, and lead.
01Servant Leadership
Helping people become their best selves is also how I become mine.
I lead from the front and care more about people than status. I realized I was a leader when others kept trusting me with responsibility.
02Systems Thinking
Building systems feels like a game to me, and I love compounding improvements over time.
I see patterns across people, institutions, and technology. I turn those patterns into clearer systems and better decisions.
03Generalized Specialist
I do my best work at the intersection of disciplines.
I studied design, switched to business, and taught myself to code. Along the way, I've organized communities, run events, and advised startups.
04Continuous Learner
Curiosity keeps me moving.
I run experiments, study what works, and apply the lesson to the next attempt. I want to keep learning about myself, other people, and the world for life.
Who I learn from
Lately I keep learning from 
Eckhart Tolle, 
Naval Ravikant and 
Charlie Munger.
Discipline, curiosity, and the long game.
I started as a designer and studied business. Then I gave up three years of spring & summer breaks to teach myself to code in the library. I've written software ever since.
Learning is what I do for fun, and so far that's 597 books. Since 2018 I've also led a camp at Burning Man. Few things I've done come close to using all my skills the way it does.
- “Discipline is compassion for your future self”
- “Read everything, apply what survives the second look”
- “Build rooms where people become who they're trying to be”