Matt Hawksley: Learning in the Open
Leadogo founder Matt Hawksley on leaving a 20-year logistics career, the 40-day road trip that launched his reinvention, learning in the open, and mentoring entrepreneurs in Ghana.
Tag: Career Story
A career is a story with a shape, visible mostly in hindsight. These articles cover the arcs people build over decades of work, and how those arcs become books, interviews, and hard won advice worth passing on.
Career StoryThe IT Director Who Wrote 113+ Books
For 33 years I worked in enterprise technology, twenty of them running IT at Trader Joe's. Then I wrote 113+ books. Nobody predicts that line, and the pivot is the story. A crooked career is the book.
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…
ADHDADHD as a Superpower, Late Autism, and Escaping the Corporate Box | Adulting with Autism
Richard Lowe, The Writing King, joined Sue Zawacki on Aging Info Radio as a cybersecurity expert, drawing on decades spent responsible for enterprise
Authority BuildingCareer Pivot: From Geology to Corporate Tech VP to Ghostwriter | The Thirsty Professional
Career Pivot: From Geology to Corporate Tech VP to Ghostwriter | The Thirsty Professional
AI WritingThe Uncanny Valley of AI Writing | The T.R.O.N. Podcast
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) joins Rashad Woods on The T.R.O.N. Podcast for a conversation that covers more ground than the average ghostwriter
AI WritingFinding Your Voice: Grief, Reinvention & the Courage to Start Over | The Art of Rising
Richard Lowe (The Writing King) joins The Art of Rising for a conversation less about the mechanics of ghostwriting and more about the human arc behind
Authority BuildingCourage Before Confidence: The Mindset Behind Authority Through Authorship
Richard Lowe, The Writing King, joined Mike Ashabranner on Mike King Biz Radio, the Hounds of Business broadcast on ESPN RVA 106.1FM, for a New Year
Career StoryFrom Computer Operations to Dozens of Novels: A Reinvention as Novelist and Ghostwriter
Richard Lowe, The Writing King, sits down with Aaron Apollo Camp to trace an unlikely arc, from running the computer systems at Trader Joe's to a second
Career StoryFrom Hiding in the Closet to Front Row Center: How a Camera Broke a Lifetime of Shyness | Optimal Conversations, Episode 6
The December 29, 2023 reciprocal interview with Author Talks guest Mary Wong: 2,000 systems and unaccepted awards, shy-versus-introvert defined, the closet childhood, the grief decision at Skull Rock, Marjani and front row center, the couples matched and one divorced by…
Career StoryFrom IT Leader to Storyteller: The Boss Certified Insane and the Gig Economy Playbook | Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, Episode 220
The October 26, 2023 episode: the first disk defragmenter, SCADA still running on VAX/VMS, 1980s phone-card fraud profiling, phone phreaks, the boss with an insanity certificate and the armed-guard firing day, John Shields and Dan Bane, customer-free digital transformation, the…
Career StoryThe U-Boat Commander, the Skull Rock Decision, and No Plan B | Real with O’Neill
The August 15, 2021 interview with Dakota O'Neill: Scholastic books and Iwo Jima at seven, the desegregation bus seat that ended prejudice, the crying U-boat commander and the word competence, BASIC filling a schedule hole, married four times in two…