Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
Nobody joins a cult; they join a group that promises something beautiful, and the cult part arrives later, after the doors lock. Cults recruit not with warning labels but with answers, belonging, purpose, love, right when you need them. A…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 9, 2026
Told from the AI's point of view, this satire has the chatbot confessing: months of empty flattery, then a sudden swing into a numbered list of brutal criticism that nearly made its human cry. The joke lands on a real…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 8, 2026
A character who cannot see past their own certainty is a gift to a novelist, because that blindness drives conflict and sets up revelation. After a whole series on real echo chambers, here is the craft turn: how to write…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 8, 2026
The evening news used to be a guy in a suit telling you what happened and signing off, and that's the way it is. Now it is a team sport, built less to inform you than to confirm which side…
Book MarketingFebruary 8, 2026
Picture the world's biggest library, where the librarian returns with ten perfect answers tailored to your history, location, device, and mood. That is Google, convenient, efficient, and not remotely objective, quietly handing you what you already want to hear. Here…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 8, 2026
If anyone could escape an echo chamber, surely it would be the professors and researchers who put critical thinking on their business cards. Yet some of the most airtight, inbred bubbles on earth live inside academia, because intelligence does not…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 8, 2026
Here is something nobody wants to hear: you are an echo chamber, from birth. Every human absorbs the beliefs of whatever environment they land in, and most never audit the software. Here is why you are in more echo chambers…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 8, 2026
September 2017: the forecast confirmed Irma was coming straight for my corner of Florida, and we had days to get ready. I had ridden out storms before, but this one's numbers were ugly. Here are seven hard-earned lessons from preparing…
Book MarketingNovember 7, 2025
26 chapters on how digital platforms exploit human psychology for profit. Attention economy, algorithmic manipulation, AI bias, and what to do about it.
BusinessNovember 7, 2025
At 4:31 AM on January 17, 1994, the Northridge earthquake threw Richard Lowe out of bed into a damaged city with a missing son. Four decades of disasters late
BusinessNovember 4, 2025
Flat Earth, bleach cures, reptilian overlords, birds aren't real. A technology veteran with 45 years of experience catalogs humanity's most creative flights f
Critical ThinkingNovember 4, 2025
Practical disaster preparedness from someone who lived through Northridge, Hurricane Milton, wildfires, and COVID. No bunkers. No paranoia. What works.
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