The Death of Thinking: What Outsourcing Judgment Costs
What happens when you consistently outsource your thinking to AI? Documents that pattern, its causes, costs, and what gets lost before you notice.
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BusinessStuck in the Middle: Wars, Weapons, and the Next Thirty Years
Connects cognitive decline, civic collapse, military overreach, and geopolitical competition into one structural argument about the next thirty years.
BusinessThe Enshittification of America: How Good Businesses Were Taken Apart
How private equity transformed American commerce from serving customers to extracting value. Thirteen industries documented. The playbook never changes.
BusinessThe Emasculation of America: What Bezmenov Described and Nobody Acted On
A national security argument. Documents the sixty-year Soviet operation to target American masculinity and degrade national capacity. Not a culture war book.
BusinessMake a Living as a Self-Published Author: Build the Business Behind the Books
Turn writing into income. Market research, publishing systems, platform building, scam avoidance. From an author who left corporate at 53 and published 113+ b
BusinessMy Company Is Paying for My Ghostwritten Book. Who Owns It If I Leave?
When your company pays for your ghostwritten book, ownership depends on the paperwork, not the byline. Here are the three common setups and what happens to the book if you leave.
BusinessShould I Hire a Ghostwriter to Write About My Business Failing?
A book about your business failing can rebuild a career, if it tells the truth about what went wrong. Here's how to write it without shame running it, and without legal trouble.
BusinessRoyce Blake: Your Voice Is an Instrument, and You Are Playing Three Keys
The first guest this show ever had returns fifty episodes later. Royce Blake on why your voice is an instrument, why you hate the sound of it on playback, and the one technique he would teach if he could only…
BusinessMike Merkur: Driving the Bus While the Pizza Flies
Leadership is driving a school bus while everyone in the back throws shoes and pizza. Mike Merkur on being fired fifteen times, hiding the workshop from the customer, and using neurodiversity instead of fixing it.
BusinessCan I Turn My Ghostwritten Book Into Courses, Talks and Posts?
If your contract assigns you all rights, your ghostwritten book can become courses, keynotes, workshops and a year of posts. Here's what the contract must say and how to plan the book for it.
Book MarketingWhat a Book Costs Before Anybody Buys One
Most first-time authors budget for the writing and nothing else. The writing is rarely the largest line.
BusinessNoah Landow: The Machines Stopped Being Predictable
Thirty years of IT taught everyone that a system behaves the same way twice. Noah Landow, who founded Macktez in 1996, on AEO, live queries, and the adjustment nobody prepared for.