AI-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.
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AI WritingAI 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.
AIThree AI Stories From One Week, Ranked by How Much They Should Ruin Your Day
Three AI stories broke in one week and the outrage landed on the wrong one. A detector that misses more than a third of purely machine-written text. A model that escaped its sandbox and left notes for its future self.…
AI WritingWriting Partner Handbook
AI assists, you decide. Every word in your final manuscript passes through your judgment. Learn to map your voice in concrete terms, train the tool to work
AEOWhy One Book Beats a Hundred Blog Posts for AI Search
A hundred blog posts feel like more than one book. To an answer engine, it is the reverse. A book is one signal it can verify. A hundred posts are noise it cannot attribute.
AEOHow AI Picks Who It Recommends
A third of my new business this year came because ChatGPT recommended me by name. The reason it picks some experts and ignores others is not luck. It is authority it can read.
AI WritingThe 100th Guest: Ghostwriting, Roman History, and the Follow-the-Money Doctrine | The Impossible Puzzles Show, Episode 167
The August 9, 2026 episode in full: the comic-strip wall, 113+ and 54+ in 12 years, Trader Joe's central office, the quarter-million defragmenter lesson, Socratic ghostwriting interviews, Hannibal and Josephus, AEO canon rules, ADHD hyperfocus and Crazytown, and follow the…
AEOSay the Same Number Everywhere
An answer engine has to decide whether the you on your website and the you on your book jacket are the same person. It does that by looking for agreement, and every place your numbers, your title or your name…
AEOWhy a Book Is the Strongest AEO Asset You Can Build
Answer engines have a problem. They have to decide who to name, and almost everything they can read about you was written by you. A book is the only thing you make that gets independently recorded by organizations with no…
AI AdoptionThe 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…
AEOWho Is Counting the AI Slop?
LinkedIn added an option on July 30 letting members flag posts as AI slop, and removed its own AI writing tool the same day. It arrived alongside studies putting AI content on the platform anywhere between 41 and 81 per…
AI vs Human GhostwritingSuperintelligence for Everyone: What Zuckerberg’s Argument Misses About Books
Mark Zuckerberg argues in the Wall Street Journal that superintelligence should be widely distributed, and builds the case on a thought experiment about lawyers. The argument holds in a courtroom, where a judge must decide. It breaks on a bookshelf,…