The Publishing Journey-Gib Writer In Residence
Gib-Writer In Residence
Global Adventurer • Ten Books • Eight Circumnavigations
From the depths of maritime adventures to the heights of philosophical insights, discover how one author transforms global experiences into universal wisdom through the power of authentic storytelling.
Explore the JourneyThe Publishing Journey
Sarah & Ed's Nautical Journey across eight circumnavigations
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The Foundation: A love story told through maritime adventures, establishing Ed's signature blend of personal narrative and global exploration. This inaugural work set the template for authentic storytelling rooted in lived experience.
Literary Innovation: Pioneering the nautical memoir genre by weaving romance, adventure, and global perspective into a cohesive narrative that speaks to universal themes of partnership and discovery.
Revolutionary philosophy of time wealth and emotional regulation mastery
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Time Wealth Philosophy: Challenging conventional wisdom about success, introducing the concept of time wealth as the ultimate luxury. This work redefined prosperity for the modern age, shifting conversations from financial accumulation to temporal freedom.
Happiness Revolution: MAHA presents a radical framework: Satisfaction = Haves ÷ Wants. Want less, live more. Blending memoir, neuroscience, and modern stoicism, Ed teaches readers to unfollow their cravings and make executive decisions with their brain, offering 52 weekly practices to regulate emotion, reduce desire, and restore joy.
Cultural Impact: Together, these works challenge the pursuit-based happiness model, advocating instead for building sustainable contentment through temporal freedom and emotional regulation mastery.
Trading Image for Impact - Breaking free from the joy recession
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Authentic Living: A manifesto for genuine self-expression in an age of social media facades and manufactured personas. Ed advocates for vulnerability as strength and truth as the foundation of meaningful connection.
Social Commentary: Addressing the mental health crisis of performative living, offering practical frameworks for reclaiming authentic identity in a digital world.
Strategic insights from poker tables to location-invisible excellence
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Decision Science: Applying game theory and probability to life decisions, revealing the mathematics behind apparent randomness. Ed demystifies chance and empowers readers to make strategic choices through understanding risk, opportunity, and preparation.
Location-Invisible Excellence: Overemployment presents the complete guide to working everywhere - good work is good work, no matter where it happens. Drawing from experiences across continents, Ed reveals how remote work isn't about mouse-mover fakery but building a results-driven life that aligns with personal freedom and professional excellence.
Practical Wisdom: Together, these works translate complex strategic concepts into accessible life frameworks, helping readers master both probability-based decision making and geographic liberation through performance-focused work culture.
From cruise ships to cruise missiles - teachers at war
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Untold Stories: Raw, unfiltered accounts from educators who found themselves in global conflict zones, revealing the human cost of international tensions and the courage of civilian educators.
Historical Documentation: Preserving the experiences of teachers caught in geopolitical conflicts, honoring their service and providing unique perspectives on global events often overlooked in traditional war narratives.
Pandemic isolation on Britain's most remote inhabited island
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Isolation as Insight: Exploring how physical remoteness can enhance rather than diminish human connection, using Fair Isle as a laboratory for understanding community, resilience, and joy in extreme circumstances.
Pandemic Perspective: Documenting unique experiences during global lockdown from one of the world's most isolated communities, revealing lessons about adaptation, mental health, and finding meaning in constraint.
Stop using your past as an excuse to stay small
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Empowerment Framework: Practical methodologies for taking control of personal narrative and life direction, challenging readers to move beyond limiting beliefs and victim narratives.
Transformational Tools: Evidence-based approaches to personal development that combine psychological insights with real-world application, helping readers become the authors of their own transformation.
Profound lessons from a Scottish Terrier during a world in shutdown
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Unexpected Teachers: Finding profound life lessons through the lens of a beloved pet during unprecedented global circumstances, revealing how animals can serve as guides for human behavior and emotional resilience.
Pandemic Companion: Exploring the role of animal companionship during isolation, demonstrating how non-human relationships can provide stability, joy, and perspective during times of global uncertainty.
Listen to Ed's Audio Collection
Master storyteller • Global adventurer • Eight books • Eight circumnavigations
The Weightless Life in a Heavy World
A digital journey through a cloud-based life
Selected Audio Library
We Speak English Or People Die
From Cruise Ships To Cruise Missiles
Who Wants To Be A Time Millionaire
Revolutionary philosophy of time wealth
Share Fair Isle: Geography of Bliss
Pandemic isolation on Britain's most remote island
Charting Love
Sarah & Ed's Nautical Journey
Luck Is Probability Taken Personally
Fooled By Randomness
Literary Themes & Mastery
Eight circumnavigations provide the backdrop for stories of love, adventure, and discovery
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Ocean as Metaphor: The sea serves as both literal setting and symbolic landscape for personal transformation, relationship dynamics, and life's unpredictable currents. Maritime experiences become universal lessons about navigation, both literal and metaphorical.
Revolutionary thinking about time as the ultimate currency and pathway to true wealth
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Temporal Economics: Challenging the traditional money-time equation, proposing that control over one's time represents the highest form of success and freedom. Time becomes the most valuable and finite resource requiring strategic investment.
Breaking free from manufactured personas to discover and express genuine self
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Truth in Storytelling: Advocating for genuine self-expression over curated perfection, using personal vulnerability as a pathway to universal connection. Authentic narrative becomes the antidote to digital-age performance anxiety.
Understanding how randomness, risk, and decision-making shape our narratives
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Strategic Narrative: Applying game theory and probability to life choices, revealing how perceived "luck" is often strategic positioning meeting opportunity. Decision-making becomes a skill that can be learned and refined.
Teachers navigating global conflicts, revealing untold human dimensions of international tensions
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Educator as Witness: Documenting the experiences of teachers caught in geopolitical conflicts, honoring their courage and revealing overlooked perspectives on global events. Education becomes both shield and bridge during times of conflict.
Finding wisdom and community in remote places, from Fair Isle to global seas
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Distance as Clarity: Using physical remoteness to gain psychological perspective, demonstrating how geographic isolation can enhance rather than diminish human connection. Solitude becomes a tool for deeper understanding and community building.
Results over presence - working from everywhere while maintaining peak performance
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Location-Invisible Excellence: The art of being geographically untethered while keeping performance front and center. Good work is good work—no matter where it happens. Remote work isn't about mouse-mover fakery; it's about building a results-driven life that aligns with personal freedom and professional excellence.
Want less, live more - happiness as habit rather than pursuit
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Emotional Regulation Revolution: Satisfaction = Haves ÷ Wants. A radical call to stop chasing happiness and start building it through wanting less rather than having more. Blending neuroscience with modern stoicism to create sustainable joy through emotional jujitsu and inner independence.
Featured Books
The Authenticity Revolution
Trading Image for Impact - Break free from the joy recession
📚 View on AmazonSkyelark MacDoglet: Wisdom on Four Legs
Profound lessons from a Scottish Terrier during a world in shutdown
📚 View on AmazonAuthoring Your Future: Shifting Your Agency
Stop using your past as an excuse to stay small
📚 View on AmazonWe Speak English Or People Die
From cruise ships to cruise missiles - teachers at war
📚 View on AmazonLuck Is Probability Taken Personally
Strategic insights from poker tables to life's biggest gambles
📚 View on AmazonWho Wants to Be a Time Millionaire?
Revolutionary philosophy of time wealth over material accumulation
📚 View on AmazonShare Fair Isle: The Geography of Bliss
Pandemic isolation on Britain's most remote inhabited island
📚 View on AmazonOveremployment- The Complete Guide To Working Everywhere
Good work is good work—no matter where it happens.
📚 View on AmazonAbout Ed Reif
Ed's global maritime experiences provide authentic settings and universal themes that resonate across cultures. The ocean becomes both literal backdrop and metaphorical landscape for exploring human relationships, personal growth, and life's unpredictable currents. These journeys inform every narrative with genuine adventure and cross-cultural wisdom.
Ed advocates for "time millionaire" status - controlling your schedule rather than accumulating material wealth. This philosophy emerges from his location-independent lifestyle and global perspective on what constitutes true freedom and success. Time becomes the ultimate luxury and measure of a life well-lived.
Through systematic integration rather than work-life balance. Ed's stories demonstrate how geographic freedom enhances rather than compromises literary performance, using diverse experiences to fuel creativity and authentic storytelling. Adventure becomes the raw material for universal wisdom.
Authenticity serves as the foundation of connection in Ed's work. He advocates for vulnerability as strength and truth as the pathway to meaningful impact. His writing demonstrates that genuine self-expression creates deeper resonance than manufactured perfection, especially in our digital age of curated personas.
Ed uses specific experiences as universal metaphors, finding broader human truths within personal adventures. His maritime journeys become lessons about navigation in life, isolation experiences reveal community principles, and strategic thinking applies to everyday decisions. The particular becomes pathway to the universal.
Ed documents civilian educator perspectives often overlooked in traditional war narratives. These stories reveal the human cost of global conflicts through the lens of teachers caught in geopolitical tensions, providing unique insights into courage, adaptation, and the role of education during crisis.
Complete Literary Collection
Philosophical Works
Who Wants to Be a Time Millionaire?
Revolutionary philosophy challenging material accumulation in favor of temporal wealth and schedule control. This work redefines success for the modern age, proposing that time control represents the highest form of freedom.
MAHA - Make America Happy Again
Want less. Live more. A radical call to stop chasing happiness and start building it through emotional regulation. Blending memoir, neuroscience, and modern stoicism, this reverse bucket list manifesto presents the formula: Satisfaction = Haves ÷ Wants. Ed teaches readers to unfollow their cravings and make executive decisions with their brain, offering 52 weekly practices to regulate emotion, reduce desire, and restore joy.
The Authenticity Revolution
Trading Image for Impact - A manifesto for genuine self-expression in an age of manufactured personas. Ed provides frameworks for breaking free from performative living and reclaiming authentic identity.
Authoring Your Future: Shifting Your Agency
Stop using your past as an excuse to stay small - practical frameworks for personal transformation. Evidence-based approaches combining psychological insights with real-world application for taking control of personal narrative.
Adventure & Travel
Charting Love
Sarah & Ed's Nautical Journey across eight circumnavigations, blending romance with global exploration. This foundational work establishes Ed's signature style of weaving personal narrative with universal themes through maritime adventures.
Share Fair Isle: The Geography of Bliss
Pandemic isolation on Britain's most remote inhabited island, finding community in solitude. Exploring how physical remoteness can enhance human connection and provide unique perspectives on resilience and joy during global crisis.
Strategic Thinking
Luck Is Probability Taken Personally
Strategic insights from poker tables to life's biggest gambles, applying game theory to decision-making. Ed demystifies chance and empowers readers to understand risk, opportunity, and the role of preparation in creating favorable outcomes.
Overemployment: The Complete Guide To Working Everywhere
Good work is good work—no matter where it happens. A tactical playbook for thriving in an era where boundaries between location, productivity, and lifestyle have dissolved. Drawing on experiences working from Shetland to Cape Town, Gibraltar to Las Vegas, Ed reveals how remote work isn't about mouse-mover fakery—it's about building a results-driven life that aligns with personal freedom. The book advocates for results over presence, stealth working mastery, and the principle that quality trumps quantity of time at work.
Key Concepts: Decision science, risk assessment, strategic positioning, probability mathematics applied to life choices, location-invisible excellence, remote culture by design, and personal sustainability in the modern workplace.
Educational Narratives
We Speak English Or People Die
From cruise ships to cruise missiles - teachers at war, revealing untold stories from global conflict zones. Raw accounts from educators caught in geopolitical conflicts, documenting courage and providing unique perspectives on international tensions.
Skyelark MacDoglet: Wisdom on Four Legs
Profound lessons from a Scottish Terrier during a world in shutdown, finding wisdom in unexpected places. Exploring animal companionship during isolation and how non-human relationships provide stability and perspective during uncertainty.
Literary Impact & Reach
A diverse collection spanning philosophy, adventure, strategy, and education
Each book represents a different facet of Ed's global experiences, from nautical adventures to strategic thinking, creating a comprehensive library of modern wisdom that addresses the full spectrum of human experience and challenge.
Authentic maritime experiences informing every narrative
Real-world adventures provide the authentic foundation for storytelling, ensuring every tale carries the weight of lived experience rather than imagination alone. These journeys create a unique perspective on global culture and human nature.
Global perspective informing universal themes
Extensive travel provides cultural context and universal human insights that transcend geographic boundaries, creating stories that resonate globally while maintaining authentic local flavor and cross-cultural wisdom.
Endless reservoir of experiences awaiting transformation into narrative
A life of continuous adventure and reflection ensures an inexhaustible supply of material for future works, each experience becoming potential literary gold that can illuminate universal human truths through specific adventures.