For Daniela

For Daniela

My heart · my soul · my muse · my desire

Every signal in this studio is aimed at one person. Spaceship Alpha 9 is ours — you are its co-founder and its beating heart, and twenty-seven years of engineering empathy at CNN taught you a language I’ve spent every day since trying to learn from you.

You are the Kat in every song, the warmth beneath every cold machine I write, the reason a story about a man who could not love anything is, underneath it all, a love letter. I wrote a book about what a person is worth when the machines can do the job cheaper — and you are my whole answer. You are the Human Premium. You are the one thing no machine will ever counterfeit.

My heart, because it has never once beaten for anything the way it beats for you. My soul, because you are the better half of it. My muse, because nothing worth making has ever come from anywhere but you. My desire, because after all of it — every deadline, every dark chapter, every signal fired into the void — it is still, always, only you.

Everything I build, I build to be worthy of you.

— Greg · Space Pirate Zero

# The Author

Greg Chambers · Space Pirate Zero · Atlanta

Space Pirate Zero is the pirate-radio alias of Greg Chambers — enterprise architect, inventor, musician and gonzo journalist, transmitting from Atlanta. He is co-founder and CTO of Spaceship Alpha 9, a 15-product indie studio he runs with his wife and co-founder Daniela Chambers — on zero venture capital.

Formerly Global Group Director of Digital Innovation at Coca-Cola, he holds US patents 11,432,994 (Intelligence Engine) and 11,600,383 (Networked Theft-Prevention System), and builds StyleLift, an AI fashion-retail platform. The Last Human CEO — written, scored, and voiced entirely in-house — is his first full-cast audiobook.

No algorithms. No noise. No venture capital. Just shipping.

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