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
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.
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.
BusinessBeating the No-Win Scenario: Kobayashi Maru Decisions, Sunk Costs, and Changing the Rules | Michael Santore
BlockSkunk founder Michael Santore joins Richard Lowe to talk no-win scenarios, the elevated paradox, the fantasy sports startup that stopped like a spaceship, sunk costs, and why AI compliance is quietly asking for immutable audit logs.
Book MarketingHow to Get a Book Deal
Randy Peyser has helped first time authors land deals with New York publishers for 25 years. In this conversation she breaks down what publishers actually buy: the proposal, the platform, and the moves that make or break a first book.
BusinessThe Hiccup of Hesitation: Beating the Fear That Stalls First-Time Authors
The thing that stops most first-time authors is not the writing or the publishing. It is fear, and it shows up as a small hesitation at the exact moment action is needed. Here is the simple practice for beating it,…