At least be not that dumb

By Shane Ayers

There are two rules. The first is don't be dumb. The second is maintain the first.

At Least Be Not That Dumb is a book written backwards, by hand, in a single sitting - on an ordinary night at home one month after the author's father died and days before learning his wife was pregnant.

What begins as stream of consciousness becomes something else entirely: a framework for clear thinking built from the raw material of one evening. A toddler singing three words. A wife's philosophy on medicine. Peanut butter. A dead man's journal. The species of mistakes. The species of dreams.

Each handwritten page is reproduced alongside its printed text, preserving the work exactly as it emerged - imperfect, urgent, and alive.

Part memoir, part philosophy, part instruction manual for keeping your mind sharp in an era engineered to dull it. Read it backwards. It was written that way

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GP7TT452
• ISBN13: 9798248976645
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"