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Bootstrapping a Civilization

The survival and rebuilding guide for when help isn't coming: from the first day after the collapse to the first program on a computer you built yourself. Civilization as a bootstrapping problem, like a compiler that has to compile itself: you need tools to build better tools. Following a tech tree, with a build log, a time-travel check, and the insight that hygiene and medicine save more lives than technology.