Number Two on the List
A client told me I came up second on the list an AI engine gave him. He hired me anyway. That detail explains how buyers find professionals now, and why a book is the strongest record you can create.
Category: Technology
Coverage of technology developments, tools, and trends relevant to writers and professionals. Examines how technology shapes work, communication, and daily life, with perspective from 20 years in IT leadership.
TechnologyThe Client Sent Us the Wrong Source Code
Asking for something is not the same as verifying you got it, and the gap between those two costs more project time than any other mistake I have watched. We asked a client for their source code. They sent it.…
TechnologyThe Water Kept Flowing When Nobody Was Watching
One question will tell you whether your AI agent project is going to work, and it takes an afternoon to answer. The question is not what the agent can do. It is what the agent is allowed to do when…
Artificial IntelligenceThe Claude Watermark: What It Does and Why the Panic Is Wrong
Anthropic started watermarking Claude's text output on August 2, 2026, and almost every piece of coverage got the mechanism wrong. Nothing was added to your writing. What the mark does, what it proves, and why the SEO panic collapses on…
Book MarketingTraining Crawls and Live Queries Are Not the Same Thing
A training crawl is a machine reading your site to teach a model, and it may never send you a human being. A live query is a person asking a question right now. Only the second one is traffic.
Book MarketingAI-Written LinkedIn Profiles Are Mediocre by Design
An AI writes the average of what everybody else wrote, which makes it structurally incapable of producing a profile that stands out. Use it as an advisor and never as the author.
Book MarketingAI Is a Function, Not a Ghostwriter
Four guests from unrelated fields arrived at the same conclusion within weeks: AI works when it removes drudgery and fails when it removes the person. Applied to books, that line is easy to draw.
Book MarketingContent Decay: Why Your Best Posts Quietly Stop Working
Old posts lose traffic quietly, on two separate clocks: the slow slide down search rankings, and the newer one where a page keeps its ranking and stops being cited in AI answers. Here is how to audit both and repair…
GhostwritingGhostwriting About IoT: Turning Invisible Expertise Into a Book
IoT expertise is invisible by design, and invisible expertise wins nothing. Here is what an IoT book can be about, how ghostwriting handles deep technical material and NDAs, and who reads these books once they exist.
Artificial IntelligenceThe Day Your Website Died: Optimizing for AI Search
The Day Your Website Died is the record of what happened when an AI engine started sending Richard Lowe paying clients before he had done anything deliberate
BusinessStuck in the Middle: Wars, Weapons, and the Next Thirty Years
Connects cognitive decline, civic collapse, military overreach, and geopolitical competition into one structural argument about the next thirty years.
Personal GrowthTurn Off the TV, Get Off Your Ass, and Do Something: Getting Your Time Back From the Screens
Four hours of TV a day, no time for what matters. Richard Lowe's guide to crossing the line from consuming to contributing.