Find Your Pond
I Died, Got a New Heart, and Accidentally Made Friends with AI
I didn’t know I was in heart failure. I died in front of my wife. Four months later, I came home with a new heart and had to figure out what to do with the rest of my life.
Somewhere along the way, I accidentally made friends with AI.
Now in paperback & on Kindle · Amazon
What this book is
A true story about dying, coming back, and stumbling into AI while I was figuring out what to do with the time I got.
It’s not a tech book. It’s not a self-help book. It’s just what happened to me, and the strange, useful thing I found while I was putting my life back together.
Find your pond
Most people freeze up trying to understand all of AI at once. You don’t have to.
Pick one real problem in your actual life — one pond — and start there.
That’s the whole idea.
You don’t learn to swim by reading about the ocean.
Where you might start
A pond can be small. For example:
- Writing the hard email you’ve been putting off.
- Making sense of a confusing bill or letter.
- Figuring out dinner from whatever’s in the fridge.
- Getting unstuck on a form or a phone call.
- Thinking something through at 2 a.m. when you can’t sleep.
About Tim
Tim Gmahle is a writer from New Jersey. In 2023, he survived cardiac arrest and received a heart transplant.
Find Your Pond grew out of the strange stretch that followed — recovering, rebuilding, making things again, and figuring out what to do with a life he didn’t expect to still have.
He’s still here. And he’s still figuring it out.
Now in paperback — or read it on Kindle.