Coworking desks, home office, remote, and tools that actually helped my book writing journey Computer Notebook or Tablet with a Keyboard In the second month of writing, I changed my main machine. My old Lenovo T490 worked, but with its charger brick it added almost half a kilogram to my backpack. My current workhorse is a second‑hand Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 9 that I refurbished with a new battery myself. On a full charge, it gives me about five hours of real writing time. I pair

How a Depth Crisis, a Mindset Reset, and a Reader Map Unlocked the Second Phase of the Data Center Primer James Soh Have You Ever Dreamed of Writing a Book? I have. Twice, actually, separated by nearly fifty years. The first time I was in primary school, enamoured with Battlestar Galactica, the original 1980s TV series with its colonial warriors and Cylon raiders and the endless search for Earth. I wrote short chapters of space battles in Chinese and passed them to one or two

Dead on Arrival: Version 0.1 Writing with the Intended Readers in Mind, and Using AI Productively James Soh Dead on Arrival Captain Jack Sparrow is many things. Unreliable, rum-soaked, operating on logic that only makes sense three scenes later. But nobody ever called him boring. Pirates of the Caribbean works because every scene has somebody who has been somewhere , done something inadvisable, and carries the evidence on their face. You believe the Data Center sharing beca

The Pull that started the Book Writing Journey James Soh At about the end of 2023, my team was readying the third data center building on our first campus and piling the foundation for a fourth building on a new land plot nearby. The pace and scale were accelerating. We were standardizing more, pushing harder into offsite MEP manufacturing, and shipping bigger, more modular assemblies than I had seen earlier in my career. What really struck me was the contrast. On one side, h

Author: James Soh, Kindle ebook published on 22th of October, 2025. Paperback edition on 28th of October 2025, Hardcover edition on 12th of November, 2025. The Data Center Primer by James Soh is a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving data center ecosystem, which serves as the foundational infrastructure for artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and machine learning. Drawing from over 30 years of experience in designing and managing facilities across Southeast Asia