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.
Artificial IntelligenceAI search makes your website matter more, and it is also broken in ways nobody selling it will admit: opaque, slow to update, confidently wrong about you with no appeal, and corruptible by competitors. It is worth pursuing and badly…
AdviceThe U.S. government switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI models overnight, proving in a single stroke that nobody who uses AI actually owns it. If your business runs on a rented tool, whoever controls it can change the deal or…
Critical ThinkingAcross 54+ ghostwritten books, mostly nonfiction, I have had to catch logical fallacies the authors never saw, and that is no insult to them. They are experts in their fields; expertise and watertight reasoning simply are not the same thing.…
Critical ThinkingIn academic writing a logical fallacy is an error to correct. In fiction it is a gift, because flawed reasoning that feels airtight to the character is exactly what drives conflict, dialogue, and plot. This overview opens a series on…
Critical ThinkingIn 2011 researchers asked over 5,000 Americans how wealth is distributed. They guessed the top 20 percent owned 59 percent; the real figure was 84. They guessed the bottom 40 percent held 9 percent; the real figure was 0.3. An…
Critical ThinkingIt starts reasonable: processed food has unpronounceable chemicals, drug companies chase profit, doctors get things wrong, all true. Then the algorithm clocks your click, and within a week each sensible doubt has escalated into a sealed conspiracy, every step feeling…
Critical ThinkingA Kodak engineer invented the first digital camera in 1975, and management decided nobody would want a camera without film, then spent three decades defending film while the revolution it created destroyed it, bankruptcy in 2012. Nobody there was stupid;…
Critical ThinkingHalf the country is certain the other half is destroying America, and both halves draw that certainty from information systems engineered to produce it. A political echo chamber is not policy disagreement, that is just democracy; it is a closed…
Critical ThinkingEvery generation believes it invented the future and that the one before ruined everything, and that certainty is the echo chamber, quieter than the political kind and harder to spot because it feels like common sense, not ideology. You do…
Critical ThinkingYou did not go looking for a dating ideology; the algorithm found one for you, a breakup video, a fitness reel, a 2 a.m. search for confidence, and soon every creator has a label for what is wrong with you…
Critical ThinkingWhen a character's argument is built on a fallacy, readers feel it even when they cannot name it, the speech rings hollow, the nonfiction loses credibility, the character starts to sound manipulative. Spotting fallacies makes you better in both directions:…
Critical ThinkingThe toughest echo chamber to leave is the one you were born into, because when your beliefs are stitched into your traditions, holidays, and family group chat, questioning them does not feel like curiosity, it feels like betrayal. Saying what…
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