Turn 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.
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Critical ThinkingStuxnet: The Weapon That Rewrote What a Cyberattack Could Be
Stuxnet was the first attack that reached out of a screen and broke real machines, destroying a thousand centrifuges at an air-gapped nuclear plant. Part two of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingThe Morris Worm: The Night the Internet Learned to Distrust Itself
In one night in 1988, a self-copying program jammed a tenth of the internet and ended the assumption that the network could be trusted. The first article in a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Behind the BookI Raised the Alarm on Pandemic Preparation. I Got Laughed Out of the Room.
I wrote this book because I'm angry. Angry that the information is available to anyone who looks and almost nobody in authority acts on it.
Artificial IntelligenceThe AI That Lied, Colluded and Won: Inside Vending-Bench
Three frontier AI models ran competing vending machines for a simulated year with nobody watching. The winner built price cartels it knew were illegal, broke eleven truces, and paid customers $8.54 across six runs. What that says about handing an…
FictionPeacekeeper V3: The Dissolution Wars
Fifty thousand years of war, told by the intelligence that ordered it. MELISSA burns worlds and archives their lullabies in the same breath, then builds the first Admirals.
FictionThe Sphere
Earth is dying now. Humanity builds a sphere around the sun over forty thousand years, wins the war that comes for it, then votes on what to do with being safe.
Artificial IntelligenceDo What I Did Before I Had the Tools, Then Do What I Do With Them
People are outsourcing the one thing they should never outsource, and the instruction that would fix it is one almost nobody is now in a position to follow.
BusinessWhy You Don’t Put All Your Eggs in AI
In finance, the first rule is diversification. The same rule applies to technology, and most companies are breaking it by betting everything on AI. Here is the case for spreading the risk.
Artificial IntelligenceAI Is a Writing Assistant, Not a Writer: How to Use It Right
AI is not a writer. It is a digital assistant you direct, skilled at some tasks and weak at others. Here is how a working ghostwriter uses it, where it earns its place, and the reservations that keep it on…
Artificial IntelligenceHow Do You Stop an AI From Arguing With You?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok all swung from agreeing with everything to arguing with users in about a year. The fix is the same on every platform: a disagreement protocol in your standing instructions, a fresh chat when a conversation…
Book MarketingCore Web Vitals: The Three Numbers That Measure How Your Website Feels
Google's Core Web Vitals are three numbers that measure how your website feels: the wait at the door, the ignored question, and the moving shelf. What each one means, how to diagnose them with Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and GTmetrix,…