Artificial IntelligenceJune 19, 2026
Richard Lowe returns to Optimal Conversations with Mary Wong to unpack the Enemies of You series: why cheating with AI kills your ability to learn, how the augmented path turns AI into a digital assistant instead of a replacement brain,…
Behind the BookJune 2, 2026
A bold and wildly creative dancer with a bone through her nose and tattoos that once made my conservative side shudder. We became friends.
Behind the BookMay 29, 2026
I went looking for a method and found several. None of them made me comfortable in a room with a woman in it. A camera did that, years later, entirely by accident.
Artificial IntelligenceMay 27, 2026
In 1980 I wrote Pascal for a water district that lost contact with half its infrastructure for weeks each winter, and we built a control system that ran without humans, knew its own limits, and failed safely when it hit…
Behind the BookMay 26, 2026
The systematic thinking I built to predict my father's explosions turned out to be the same thinking that reads a failing system. Nobody warned me the skill would transfer.
Behind the BookMay 24, 2026
Out of ice, wine on the carpet, and me having a quiet breakdown in the bedroom. The party was going perfectly well. I was measuring it wrong.
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.
GhostwritingFebruary 13, 2026
I did not set out to be a writer. I set out to understand my grandfather, and the writing followed, more than forty years and 113+ books ago. The path was never a straight line. Here is the real story…
PeopleFebruary 13, 2026
A client goes quiet for two days and my brain writes the entire catastrophe: he hated the chapter, he is firing me, the refund, the career-ending review. From he hasn't emailed to professional ruin in under an hour. If that…
GhostwritingFebruary 12, 2026
The more you read, the more you know, Dr. Seuss told children, and Richard Lowe built a whole career on the line. From a kid haunting libraries to a 20-year tech career at Trader Joe's to 54+ ghostwritten books and…
Book CoachFebruary 11, 2026
One month after my blog went live, it landed me a $15,000 ghostwriting project, and that was the moment I understood what a blog could do for a service business. This interview, updated for current pricing, tells the full story…
GhostwritingFebruary 11, 2026
In late 2013 I walked away from twenty years as Director of Computer Operations at Trader Joe's, overworked and trading my health for a job that had stopped giving back. I had savings and a dream I had carried since…
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