The Four Pillars of a Technical Writer
I started as a technical writer in the 1980s, and it became the foundation for everything I do now. The craft matters more in 2026, not less.
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Career DevelopmentDo IT Certifications Still Move Your Career in 2026?
IT certifications still move careers in 2026, but which ones and why has shifted. The catch is a certificate only helps when it maps to a real skill and role.
GhostwritingGhostwriting Metaverse Books After the Hype Collapsed
The metaverse that got all the money is gone. What survived is quieter and real. Ghostwriting a credible metaverse book now means writing about what works.
Artificial IntelligenceThe Cracks in AI Search Nobody’s Warning You About
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…
Artificial IntelligenceAre Websites Dead? Why AEO Makes Them Stronger Than Ever
You have heard the website is dead and AI is where traffic goes. It is exactly backwards. AI engines do not invent answers; they pull from sources, and a strong, well-structured site is the source they quote. That is what…
Artificial IntelligenceThe Web Used to Be Ours
The old web was better, or it was always chaos, both takes miss the point. The early web was built by individuals, and discovery ran on human curiosity instead of corporate budgets. Then money took over: SEO buried the little…
GhostwritingGhostwriting a Cloud Services Book in the Multicloud Age
Cloud stopped being a destination and became the default. A cloud services book that still explains why to move to the cloud is answering a dead question.
PublishingWriting to Get Found by AI Instead of Just Ranked
The old game of stuffing keywords to rank is dying. Writing that gets found in 2026 answers a real question clearly, from a source a machine can trust.
GhostwritingGhostwriting Extended Reality Books: What the Field Looks Like Now
Extended reality looks nothing in 2026 like it did when the money poured in. Ghostwriting a credible XR book now means telling that story straight, from the operator's side.
AdviceYou’re Renting, Not Owning: What the Anthropic Shutdown Teaches Writers
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…
Artificial IntelligenceWith SEO There Is Eventually a Big Bang. This Does Not Work That Way.
With SEO there is eventually a kind of big bang. A day arrives when Google decides to rank you. AEO does not work that way.
Behind the BookThe System Crashed on a Friday Night. I Had Nobody to Call.
A complete failure, millions on the line by Monday morning, every vendor number unanswered. Twenty years in the industry and not one person I could call.