Artificial IntelligenceJune 23, 2026
AI 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…
Critical ThinkingJune 20, 2026
Verne gave Tom Ayrton thirty pages and no interior. This is his confession, taken in sessions after twelve years alone on Tabor Island, including what he did for his wife.
Artificial IntelligenceJune 15, 2026
The 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…
Behind the BookMay 21, 2026
Fire on both sides of the road, and when I looked back it had jumped behind me. Years of camping experience and nothing in the car that helped.
Behind the BookMay 13, 2026
Comment sections full of people who sounded like they were preparing for a war nobody had formally declared. The view counts were too high for it to be fringe.
Critical ThinkingApril 21, 2026
A shear event kills the flock in forty seconds. Silt is alone in open atmosphere for the first time. Hard science fiction survival told from a genuinely alien point of view.
Critical ThinkingApril 20, 2026
The Toba eruption cut sunlight across Eurasia seventy-four thousand years ago. A family group tries to stay alive through it, in prose with no quotation marks and no comfort.
Critical ThinkingApril 12, 2026
Verne's castaway novel retold as the private record of Gideon Spilett, with Neb given his own story and a New Mexican widow the original did not have.
Critical ThinkingFebruary 14, 2026
Books carry ideas, and that is exactly why people keep trying to burn them. From Socrates to Harry Potter, the impulse to ban runs straight through history. Here is where book banning came from, the motivations that keep it alive,…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 13, 2026
Across 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 ThinkingFebruary 13, 2026
In 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 ThinkingFebruary 11, 2026
In 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…
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