BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
Before you commission a technical assessment, find out what decision it is going to be used in. Honest engineers doing honest work can still produce a report that exists to strengthen somebody's position in a negotiation, and the outcome will…
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
Cloudborn started with a place instead of a person. The hard part was writing a mind with no words, no bodies as we understand them, and no experience of a solid surface, without turning it into a person in a…
BusinessSeptember 1, 2026
An accountant hired me, loved the finished book, and felt disappointed anyway. Underneath his vague goal were three real ones that fought each other. Most goals do not go together.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
I held this idea for decades before writing it down, and what I was fighting was not doubt. It was the social conditioning that tells you which beliefs are permitted. I was raised Church of Christ and I still am…
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
A woman I barely knew called at 2:47 in the morning because ransomware had taken thirty years of family photographs. I knew within seconds there was nothing I could do, and worked until dawn anyway. The book that came out…
Critical ThinkingAugust 31, 2026
Settling the solar system is not a distance problem. It is an energy problem, a radiation problem, a gravity problem, and above all a supply chain problem, and the one that decides everything gets the least attention.
GhostwritingAugust 31, 2026
A former government official hired me for a policy memoir. What the interviews found was the night he chose to save his family. The book someone describes is rarely the book that is there.
BusinessAugust 29, 2026
One of my techs emptied a user's trash bin to free disk space. She had been storing tens of thousands of legal and accounting documents in there because it saved her clicks. Nothing was recoverable, and a disabled Google account…
Critical ThinkingAugust 29, 2026
A sunk cost is any resource you cannot get back, and letting it influence the next decision is the fallacy. How to spot it in your own work, how to tell it apart from persistence, and how writers use it…
Critical ThinkingAugust 28, 2026
Jules Verne wrote three novels across eight years that turn out to be one story, with returning characters, honoured consequences, and a timeline that does not add up.
Artificial IntelligenceAugust 28, 2026
Stanley Druckenmiller used AI to write a Wall Street Journal op-ed and admitted it. The argument that followed was about disclosure, and disclosure was never the question. Ghostwriting settled this a century ago: authorship lives in having the thought, not…
GhostwritingAugust 28, 2026
A client told me I came up second on the list an AI engine gave him. He hired me anyway. That detail explains how buyers find professionals now, and why a book is the strongest record you can create.
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