Artificial IntelligenceMIT tracked 54 brains for four months as people wrote essays, and the ChatGPT group came out worst, weakest neural connectivity, poorest memory, growing dependency, many unable to quote their own writing minutes later. It is not peer-reviewed yet, but…
Artificial IntelligenceWhy not just write my book with AI? I hear it weekly from CEOs dazzled by ChatGPT's word count. The answer never changes: AI has no heart, the prose it makes is soulless, and soulless writing builds no authority at…
Book MarketingCybersecurity experts know their field cold; most just cannot turn that knowledge into writing that builds authority or draws clients. The expertise is there, the communication is not, and that is the gap. Drawing on 20+ years in security operations…
Book MarketingMost clients ask about literary agents while still learning how publishing works, and for most the honest answer is that they do not need one. But agents matter in traditional publishing, and knowing what they actually do helps you choose…
WritingIn 1969 I saved for months to buy the big red Lord of the Rings, and my parents bet I would never finish it. I read it twice back to back, and it rewired how I understood story. Fifty-five years…
GhostwritingEvery writer knows the blinking cursor at 11 PM and the client's face falling over a draft that missed. A handful of old laws from engineering and military strategy, Murphy's, Kidlin's, Gilbert's, explain almost everything that goes right and wrong…
WritingI put my television in a closet and left it there for ten years. Friends thought I had lost my mind. What I gained was a decade of focus that produced more than 50 books and a business. Here is…
WritingI wanted a contemplative little studio philosopher and got Sylvia Plath in hamster form, waking at 6:47 AM sharp with an existential crisis disguised as a to-do list. Catfood the neurotic hamster turned out to be a perfect lens on…
MemoirsMost memoir attempts collapse in the middle, not from weak material but because the writer started before knowing what the book was actually about. Across 54+ memoirs, every one began not with writing but with discovery, hours of interviews finding…
FictionVilleneuve's Dune is gorgeous and largely faithful, but faithful is not the same as identical, and the gaps are where the real choices live, the cut dinner party, the vanished Alia, a dozen others. Some sharpened the story; some dulled…
BusinessScience fiction hands you more freedom than any genre: invent worlds, technologies, even physics, then watch what they do to the people inside them. That freedom is also the trap, since a world without discipline collapses into noise. Here is…
Book MarketingThose black-and-white squares hold up to 4,296 characters and work with any phone camera, making QR codes a wildly underused bridge from your printed book to email lists, bonus content, and sales, and a real security risk if you are…
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