Articles on reasoning clearly in a world engineered to prevent it. Covers spotting manipulation, testing claims before repeating them, recognizing your own biases, and the thinking habits that separate analysis from reaction. Draws on the Enemies of You series and decades of watching good people reach bad conclusions.
Book CoachI paid a coach a couple of thousand dollars for a 52-week course that turned out to be PLR material I already owned, and I quit a webinar halfway through because it taught nothing. Both are easy to spot before…
Critical ThinkingWarner Bros. Discovery finished Coyote vs. Acme and buried it for a tax write-off, and only a sale to Ketchup Entertainment got it into theaters in 2026. Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt are still locked away, and every writer should…
Critical ThinkingThe Jewish War by Josephus is one of my favorite books, and the translation you pick decides whether you finish it. Josephus wrote for the Romans who spared him, so trust his map and doubt his numbers.
Critical ThinkingIn the early 1990s a Bugs Bunny cartoon drew 37.7 million viewers a week and the franchise was valued near $17 billion. Sixty years of owners treated it as a revenue stream instead of an asset. Here is the full…
Critical ThinkingWhen Columbus sailed west, the most devastating thing he carried wasn't steel or gunpowder. It was smallpox, measles, and typhus, traveling in the bodies of men who didn't know they were carrying them. Alfred Crosby's landmark book reframed 1492 not…
Critical ThinkingMost of our behavioral patterns lock in by age six, which explains why deciding to change rarely works. This review covers what the book gets right about why willpower fails, and where its proposed solution falls short for readers outside…
Critical ThinkingYour internal monologue is so constant you don't hear it as a thought anymore, you hear it as truth. This book explains how that running commentary shapes your emotions and behavior, and what happens when you finally make it visible…
Critical ThinkingDe Mello's "Awareness" argues that most people are running on programming they never chose, and he does not offer you a method to fix it. It's a book of recorded talks that works precisely because it reads like being argued…
Critical ThinkingFernando Savater wrote this book as a letter to his fifteen-year-old son about how to live deliberately, and it refuses to act like a textbook. He argues that ethics means choosing for yourself, not just following rules or doing what…
Critical ThinkingRyan Holiday's third book in the trilogy is gentler than the first two, and the method starts to show. The body section delivers concrete advice on sleep, walking, and saying no, but the spirit section loses the specificity that made…
Critical ThinkingEgo isn't confidence or ambition. It's the need to be seen a certain way, and it costs you differently depending on where you are: as an aspiring person, as someone successful, and when you fail. This book examines how ego…
Critical ThinkingMarcus Aurelius wrote that obstacles advance action. Ryan Holiday spent a book proving he was right, organizing Stoic philosophy into three practical moves: how you see the problem, what you do about it, and how you survive when nothing works.…
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