# Writing

> Markdown companion of https://steve.zenone.org/writing on Steve Zenone's site. It carries the full page text and links.

One book and four Substacks. Different subjects, different readers. I keep them separate on purpose.

## Long-form work

- [Euphoria Unleashed: The Transformative Power of Trance Music](https://www.euphoriaunleashed.com/books): The history, culture, artists and science of trance music. A researched history of trance: where it came from, the scenes and artists that carried it and what research can explain about its effects on listeners. Book facts live on the official book site.

## By subject

The security and technology threads from [First Order](https://firstorder.zenone.org) are organized into three topic pages:

- [Security leadership](https://steve.zenone.org/security-leadership): How Steve Zenone approaches security leadership: building or repairing a program, choosing an operating model and leading a team under real pressure.
- [AI security](https://steve.zenone.org/ai-security): Steve Zenone on AI and LLM security: reasoning about model and agent risk, where adversarial pressure lands and how teams make defensible AI decisions.
- [Incident response](https://steve.zenone.org/incident-response): Steve Zenone on incident response and architecture review: how response functions get built, what reviews look for and how teams operate under pressure.

## Publications

- [First Order](https://firstorder.zenone.org) (Substack): Leadership, cybersecurity and decision-making. I write about leading security teams and making decisions in complicated technical environments. For chief information security officers, security engineers and the executives who fund the work.
- [Morphic](https://morphic.zenone.org) (Substack): Exploratory writing and systems-level thinking. Essays that don't belong anywhere else. Systems thinking, half-formed ideas and things I'm still working out.
- [ZenOne Music](https://zenonemusic.zenone.org) (Substack): Process notes and long-form writing about electronic music. Notes from making the music: production decisions, sound design and the slow business of figuring out what you actually sound like.
- [Unbroken Bond](https://unbrokenbond.zenone.org) (Substack): Estrangement, parental alienation and ambiguous loss. Writing about estrangement, parental alienation and loss without clear closure. It comes from my own experience. I try to write with restraint rather than heat.