Joel Salomon: The Truth About Money
Joel Salomon is a prosperity coach and former Wall Street money manager. He and Richard Lowe talk about the money beliefs people inherit, when credit pays off, and why prosperity starts with caring about money.
Category: Business
Lessons from decades of professional experience, including 20 years in IT leadership and a second career ghostwriting 54 business books. These articles cover leadership, operations, and the strategic thinking that drives business success.
BusinessVictoria Chemko: The Body Is the First Technology
Victoria Chemko of Umami Journeys helps leaders get clear before they adopt AI. She and Richard Lowe talk about digital transformation, AI as an echo chamber and how two introverts built lives that suit them.
BusinessWilliam Bessette: AI Enablement and Child Welfare Technology
William Bessette of The Brilliam Group and Homeward Wise on why companies should understand their processes before implementing AI, treating AI as a digital employee, building foster care software from his own past, and why this AI shift reaches all…
BusinessGetty Images Filed for Bankruptcy. Can You Prove You Licensed Your Book’s Images?
Getty Images filed for Chapter 11 to cut more than $500 million of debt. Your licenses are still good and so are its copyrights. What authors should keep for every image on their site and cover.
BusinessThe Enshittification of Microsoft Office: Why I Switched to a Free Clone
Microsoft Office turned a typewriter into a subscription, then raised the rent for an AI I never asked for. I canceled it and moved my manuscripts to WordCraft, a free Word clone built with AI. What switched over cleanly, what's…
BusinessHow to Register a Copyright for Your Book (and What Doesn’t Count)
Copyright is automatic the moment you write your book, but in the United States you can't sue a thief until the Copyright Office registers it. When to register, how to file, and why the WGA Registry, the poor man's copyright…
BusinessThe Board Seat Scam: A 419 Letter in a Business Suit
I've gotten hundreds of cold emails offering compensated board seats. They're 419 scams in a business suit: a faceless analysis team, no company, no role, a call and then a fee. Here's how to spot them and how real board…
BusinessI Joined the Science Fiction Book Club 30 Times
I joined the Science Fiction Book Club about 30 times: take the introductory books, buy the minimum, quit, rejoin. The club printed hardcovers nobody else would, then turned into crap and stopped taking orders in 2025. Here's its story, and…
BusinessThe Stores That Still Care: Publix, Walmart, Aldi, Best Buy and the Rest
My mom pasted Green Stamps into books at Sage's in San Bernardino, back when stores paid you to come back. Now I pay Walmart $150 a year and it's still the best deal in town. Here's how Publix, Aldi, Trader…
BusinessThe Grocery Store Plan: Why Every Store Starts With Flowers
Every supermarket follows a plan: flowers at the door, produce, then the deli, staples around the walls, music and smells set on purpose. The bigger question is who writes the plan, and why Trader Joe's refuses to rent its shelves.
BusinessFree With a Fill-Up: How America Stopped Giving Things Away
In 1969 a Gulf station handed me a cardboard Apollo lunar module. Here's how American giveaways rose and died with the 1973 oil embargo and the extraction era, and why AI and 3D printing are handing the tools back to…
BusinessThiago Ferreira: Thinkers, Not Doers
Miami AI consultant and University of Miami adjunct professor Thiago Ferreira on why his firm refuses headcount-cutting work, why training comes before tools, answer engine optimization, AI privacy and ethics, and the voice-clone scams hitting families.