Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
I went into consulting with twenty years of corporate experience and no idea how to run a business. The technical work came naturally and the business side nearly destroyed me. Every mistake in this book is one I made.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
I went back to repair an earlier book and found a full novel inside it. The question underneath is what it takes for an ordinary person to become a killer, and the answer is logic applied to a premise that…
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
I kept watching people I care about hit the same wall for years without trying the door. Then I looked at my own life and saw it there too. Thirty-three years, and I called it a career.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
A Fortune 50 executive explained how his company had improved customer service by replacing people with chatbots built to frustrate callers into giving up. He said it like a routine process improvement.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
A book that asks readers to examine their own prejudices has to go first. So the introduction is mine: what my parents taught me, what I believed for thirty years without testing it, and the club I was recruited into…
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
I left a twenty-year career, could not get hired, and spent six months in silence because I had never built a profile. Then I hired the people who fixed it, and went to work for them.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
This one came from nowhere in particular. Written by the inkblot method: drop one concept, drop others near it, write outward from each, and wait for the story islands to join.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
Two hat-tips decades apart, a mission and a gardener’s plaque, and the question they share. What keeps somebody in a place after they have every reason to leave it. I do not know. Cal Rourke thinks he does.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
A dark comedy about serial killers where the joke is that neither of them is clever. Nobody suspects a stupid person of being capable of it, so they get through by being underestimated.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
One of the first books I wrote, published in 2017 and heavily revised for 2026. People have been declaring the golden age of self-publishing over since 2013 and have been wrong every year since.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
A system went down on a Friday night and I discovered that twenty years in the industry had produced nobody I could call. I sat in an empty office surrounded by broken computers and worked out what was missing.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
I hid in the bedroom at my own housewarming, certain I had ruined it, and a guest found me eating leftover cheese and told me everybody was having a wonderful time. He was not being kind. He was reporting.
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