Field note
5 Things Being a Security Guard Taught Me About People
The uniform is a mirror. People show you who they are when they think you're only there to watch the door.
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Enter the library
M.H. Hawk
Stories, questions, and ideas that make the world easier to understand.
I wonder what would happen if…
Scroll · Wander · Wonder
The four doors
Explore through different lenses
Four series, four ways of paying attention. Each door opens into a different room of the same library.
Door I
Hawk's Musings
Memoir
Wiser by the last page, laughing the whole way there.
Personal reflections and true stories from the unexpected chapters of Hawk's life. Every book starts with a job description and ends with a lesson about people.
Musings of a Security Guard
Finding humanity behind the uniform.
Musings of a Tech
Finding humor in the world of troubleshooting.
Wolves of Real Estate: How We Survived a Herd of Delusional Sheeps
Lessons learned through mistakes, risks, and unexpected adventures.
Door II
Becoming Series
Self-development
The quiet, sometimes difficult work of becoming the best version of yourself.
A planned ten-to-twelve book arc that follows characters through the years where choices, habits, and belief take shape. It is not about being different; it is about doing the daily work of becoming better.
Becoming at Vista Del
Currently unfolding, one volume at a time.
Door III
Sandbox of Finance
Financial education
Where complicated ideas become simple stories.
The first arc explores Islamic finance through three volumes, using imagination and everyday examples instead of jargon and formulas.
Sandbox of Islamic Finance: Book 1
Sandbox of Islamic Finance: Book 2
Sandbox of Islamic Finance: The Field Trip
Door IV
Hawk's Lenses
Simplifying misc. concepts
Seeing the world through a clearer lens.
Each volume takes a single abstract idea and turns it into a story you can picture, remember, and explain to someone else.
Packet's Journey
The story of how the internet actually travels.
The Internet's Journey
In the field notes.
The Cloud's Journey
In the field notes.
The AI Journey
In the field notes.
The Money Journey
In the field notes.
The question wall
Questions that started the story
Every book began the same way — with a sentence that wouldn't leave. Pin one to your own wall.
- 01
I wonder What would happen if financial education started before adulthood?
→ Found in Sandbox of Finance
- 02
I wonder What if the struggle to become the best version of yourself is the most important story you will ever write?
→ Found in Becoming Series
- 03
I wonder Can a computer network teach us something about human connection?
→ Found in Hawk's Lenses
- 04
I wonder What can a night shift teach us about the people we walk past every day?
→ Found in Hawk's Musings
About Hawk
A writer moving between worlds.
Hawk has spent his life moving between worlds — technology, real estate, finance, security, and education. Along the way, he noticed something: every complicated thing has a story hiding underneath.
His books are the notebooks he kept while looking for those stories. Some are funny. Some are quiet. All of them start with the same three words.
"I wonder what would happen if…"
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Observations from the nest
Hawk's Field Notes
Observation
What Networking Taught Me About Communication
Packets take detours. So do conversations. The best listeners route around the noise instead of shouting over it.
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Why I Write About Finance Through Stories
Nobody ever fell in love with a compound interest formula. But a child in a sandbox with three coins? That we remember.
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