CybersecurityA cybersecurity book helps attackers only if you print the one wrong thing, the working exploit. You can write deeply about how attacks unfold and how to defend against them without ever handing over a usable map. The rule is…
Artificial IntelligenceKlarna ran the most public AI rollout in business history: 700 customer service workers fired, replaced by an OpenAI chatbot, the CEO claiming AI could do every human job and pocketing $10 million in savings. Two years later he was…
GhostwritingA free consult and a paid Book Feasibility Intensive do two different jobs. The free call tells you whether you might want to work together; the Intensive proves whether the book will actually happen, because you leave with a real…
Artificial IntelligenceAdopting AI without breaking your business comes down to four moves: aim it at the boring, repetitive work that drains your people, not the judgment they are paid for; map the edge cases before you deploy; keep a human wherever…
Behind the BookThe systematic thinking I built to predict my father's explosions turned out to be the same thinking that reads a failing system. Nobody warned me the skill would transfer.
GhostwritingEvery book that has done anything for me has annoyed somebody. The ones that annoyed nobody sank without trace.
CybersecurityA name I had not seen in thirteen years appeared in my Facebook messages, an old friend who within a few lines had no money for food. I knew where it was going before she got there, because being scammed…
Behind the BookOut of ice, wine on the carpet, and me having a quiet breakdown in the bedroom. The party was going perfectly well. I was measuring it wrong.
Artificial IntelligenceAn amplifier of thinking instead of a replacement for it. The difference is invisible from inside, which is why the wrong path is the easy one.
Behind the BookFire on both sides of the road, and when I looked back it had jumped behind me. Years of camping experience and nothing in the car that helped.
GhostwritingIf your career ran the whole arc of modern computing, mainframes to cloud to AI, you watched the world get rebuilt and helped build it, a once-in-history story, and the people who can tell it are retiring now. I came…
Behind the BookThree hours on a review for a fifty dollar prize I did not win. Three months of contests for one fifteen dollar win. The arithmetic on micro-income schemes is worse than it looks.
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