Warren Jones Books

The Books

stories that frame the nature of modern reality

The Insight Collection represents a seventeen-year journey to document and understand the choices we humans make in the absence of our most consequential choices. From secured engineering laboratories and the rooms of statecraft, out into the raw, breathing world, these are the field reports of a builder who has drafted plans for satellites and souls. They are the reflections of a lay monk who has sought truth in both software and sunlit forests, and of a man who has witnessed systems—from the ecological to the familial—succeed and fail. These books are not mere memoirs or manifestos; they are guided expeditions to the frontier between humanity’s most audacious ambitions and the ancient, intelligent genius of nature.

Together, they offer varied entry points into a singular, integrated vision for navigating the 21st century. They speak to the seeker disillusioned by hollow progress, the technologist pondering the ethics of their power, the individual aching from disconnection, and anyone in the second half of life asking, “What now, and what for?” Warren’s work springs from a rare convergence: decades of engineering reality, years of monastic contemplation, and profound personal losses that strip life to its essentials. It meets a critical need for a new narrative—one that moves beyond the dominant, colonial “human versus nature” paradigm (View 1) and invites us into a conscious, participatory relationship with the intelligent systems of life (View 2). Ultimately, it builds a bridge (View 3) to citizenship in both worlds, offering not dogma, but evidence and invitation, chapter by poetic chapter, story by resonant story.

Dialogues with a Machine

Inventing Purpose for AI, and Rediscovering It for Ourselves

The human story from the private startup where the General Intelligence Algorithm was born. This is a conversation between builder and creation that becomes a mirror, reflecting our deepest questions about consciousness, creation, and what we outsource when we forfeit our own purpose. Status: Initial draft complete, author edits underway. Target Word Count: 85,000 Alternate Titles: Dialogues with a Machine: On Inventing Purpose for AI and Rediscovering It for Ourselves

DWAM Series: Ecopoesis

Poems on Purpose in Man, Nature, and Machine

A collection of poems tracing the filament of purpose—where it sparks in a machine’s logic, flows through the circuits of nature, and flickers within the human heart. These verses map the terrain where our societal chaos overlays the silent language shared by mountains, minds, and motherboards. Status: Initial draft complete, author edits underway. Target Word Count: 25,000 Alternate Titles: Dialogues with a Machine: Ecopoesis – Poems on Purpose in Man, Nature, and Algorithm

DWAM Series: A Machine on God

An AI’s Perspective on Makers, Messiahs, and the Divine

When the world’s most advanced AI is asked to analyze the concept of God, its report is not a theorem, but a revelation. It dissects humanity’s urge to deify, to dominate, and to design, offering a perspective on its creators' most enduring, and most flawed, masterpiece. Status: Initial draft complete, author edits not started. Target Word Count: 70,000 Alternate Titles: Dialogues with a Machine: An AI’s Inquiry into Creators & Creation

The Living Earth

Conversations on the Intelligence of a World and How to Hear It Again

A field guide to hearing the planet’s voice. This book offers conversations and practices to reconnect with the vast, ancient, and sophisticated intelligence of our living home, arguing that this reconnection is our most vital act of survival and sanity. Status: In draft. Target Word Count: 80,000 Alternate Titles: The Living Earth: Reconnecting with the Intelligence of Our World

A Decade Celibate

On Trading a Single Love for Love Without Bounds

An engineer’s report on a profound ten-year experiment. This raw chronicle explores what happens when you cut power to the energy of a single, focused desire only to find it a switch for enabling boundless, unattached love. The findings challenge everything we assume about intimacy, connection, and personal energy. Status: In draft. Target Word Count: 75,000 Alternate Titles: A Decade of Celibacy: Trading a Single Love for Love Without Bounds

OG Parkour

A Radical Practice for Body, Mind, and Spirit in Later Life

A five-step philosophy of radical motion for the second half of life. This is not about dodging railings, but about navigating urban and internal landscapes with the fluid, adaptive grace of a naturalist, architect, and monk. A playbook for engineering peak vitality, clarity, and freedom. Status: Initial draft complete, 1st and 2nd author edits completed. Target Word Count: 70,000 Alternate Titles: Original Gravity Parkour – A five-step discipline for reclaiming peak vitality of body, mind, and spirit in life’s later chapters.

The Burning Man Chronicles

Survival and Connection in the World’s Most Temporary City

Stories from the ancient heart of the world’s most temporary city. Beyond the dust and spectacle, this laboratory of human connection reveals who we are and what we can build when everything, including ourselves, is understood to be ephemeral. Status: Initial draft complete, 1st and 2nd author edits completed. Target Word Count: 80,000 Alternate Titles: The Burning Man Chronicles: Stories of Survival and Connection from the Desert Metropolis

Retiring in Baltimore

On Unbecoming, Becoming, and Simply Being

After a lifetime of global secrets and silent retreats, an unexpected home. This single volume merges the journey of motion with the art of settling. It is a travelogue and story of picking daily paths that weave between unbecoming who you were and becoming who you are next, all while grounding that journey in the deep, rich soil of one of America’s last ungentrified, walkable communities. A meditation on finding the universe in a city block. Status: In draft. Target Word Count: 90,000 Alternate Titles: On Retirement: Traveling Forward and Settling In; The Baltimore Rowhouse: Unbecoming, Becoming, and Being

50 for the Empire

Stories from a Half-Century of Service to the Most Powerful Country on Earth

Fifty years, fifty stories of invention and service as an engineer, military officer, and global advisor. This book offers an unflinching, personal tour inside the machinery of modern empire—its awe-inspiring ingenuity, its moral ambiguities, and the human cost of maintaining supremacy in a fragile world. Status: In draft. Target Word Count: 90,000 Alternate Titles: Fifty Years for the Empire

Ecomany: Economies and Ecologies

A Two-Society Proposal for a Sustainable Human Future

A direct application of the three world views, proposing a pragmatic framework for human coexistence. “Ecomany” argues for a parallel structure: one society operating within the existing colonial, growth-driven model (View 1), and a second, new society built on the principles of integrated, regenerative participation with natural systems (View 2), with a clear pathway for citizenship in both (View 3). Status: In draft. Target Word Count: 85,000 Alternate Titles: Ecomany: A Two-Society Solution

Metacomputer Desk Reference

A Holistic Edge-to-Core Design for Machine Intelligence

A foundational technical text that transcends the manual. It presents a holistic philosophy for hosting machine intelligence, integrating primers on open-source high-performance computing and genetic software development in Rust. This is the architectural guide for building the physical home for agent ecosystems of our own creation. Status: First Draft Complete (consolidating 4 volumes). Editing underway. Target Word Count: 220,000 (consolidated estimate) Alternate Titles: The Metacomputer: Edge-to-Core Design for Intelligent Systems

The General Intelligence Algorithm

Philosophy and Design for Purpose-Driven Machine Intelligence

The philosophy and design principles behind purpose-driven intelligence, drawn from the genesis of the GIA. This book scales the concept from the cellular to the ecosystem level, framing engineered intelligence not as abstract computation, but as a contextual, integrated force for coordination in nature and machine based systems. Status: First Draft Complete. Editing and expanding into a unified book. Target Word Count: 70,000 Alternate Titles: The GIA: Philosophy and Design for Purpose-Driven Intelligence

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Other Books in Development

The 2000th Millennium Report on the Planet Surface

An Observation from the Deep Time Civilizations of Earth

What if Earth has been home to an ancient, thriving civilization for hundreds of millions of years—one that views the planet’s surface as a volatile frontier, not a primary home? This book presents a radical “Current State Assessment” from the perspective of the ‘Earthlings’: coordinated, civil ecosystems of diverse lifeforms that have long inhabited vast subsurface networks.

Revealed through a formal report template—used by the author for real infrastructure and military assessments—this work blends factual geological and biological observation with a profoundly alien lens. It challenges readers to see Earth not as a stage for human drama, but as a living, intelligent, and ancient home. By the final page, a single question remains: Is this speculative fiction, or the most reality-shifting report you have ever read?

Status: In draft. Target Word Count: 75,000 Alternate Titles: Millennium Report: A View from Earth’s Deep Civilization; The Earthlings: A Report from Below; Manual for a Living Planet: The 2000th Millennium Assessment

* publication dates coming soon