I Have Owned a Lucky Shirt. I Have Knocked on Wood.
July 10, 2026
I am not immune to any of this. The question is never whether you think irrationally. It is whether anybody has died of it.
Tag: Critical Thinking (Page 2)
AEOThe Cracks in AI Search Nobody’s Warning You About
June 23, 2026
AI search makes your website matter more, and it is also broken in ways nobody selling it will admit: opaque, slow to update, confidently wrong about you with no appeal, and corruptible by competitors. It is worth pursuing and badly…
AI AdoptionYou’re Renting, Not Owning: What the Anthropic Shutdown Teaches Writers
June 15, 2026
The U.S. government switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI models overnight, proving in a single stroke that nobody who uses AI actually owns it. If your business runs on a rented tool, whoever controls it can change the deal or…
Critical ThinkingInternet Trolls: The 16 Behaviors That Attract Them
June 12, 2026
Trolls do not choose targets at random; they go where the reaction is, and certain online behaviors light them up like a beacon, from sharing personal stories to correcting people to simply being visible. None of these are wrong. But…
Critical ThinkingStop Doing the Thinking for Your Reader
May 30, 2026
Most nonfiction hands the reader a conclusion and then explains it. The books people remember hand them the evidence and let them arrive.
Critical ThinkingBook Banning: History, Motivations, and Why It Matters
February 14, 2026
Books carry ideas, and that is exactly why people keep trying to burn them. From Socrates to Harry Potter, the impulse to ban runs straight through history. Here is where book banning came from, the motivations that keep it alive,…
Critical ThinkingStop Listening to the Gurus About Your Writing
February 14, 2026
I have spent months cleaning up my own website, deleting some articles entirely and rewriting the rest, fabricated quotes, keyword-stuffed paragraphs, emojis in headers, rules between every section. Every one traces to the same mistake: I trusted someone who called…
Business BooksLogical Fallacies in Nonfiction: What Your Ghostwriter Catches
February 13, 2026
Across 54+ ghostwritten books, mostly nonfiction, I have had to catch logical fallacies the authors never saw, and that is no insult to them. They are experts in their fields; expertise and watertight reasoning simply are not the same thing.…
Critical ThinkingWhy Political Books Work Where Arguments Fail
February 13, 2026
No one ever changed their mind by losing an argument, least of all a political one, where belief is tied to identity and any challenge reads as a personal attack. So both sides dig in and nobody moves. A book…
Character DevelopmentLogical Fallacies in Fiction: A Series Overview
February 13, 2026
In academic writing a logical fallacy is an error to correct. In fiction it is a gift, because flawed reasoning that feels airtight to the character is exactly what drives conflict, dialogue, and plot. This overview opens a series on…
Authority Through AuthorshipEconomic and Class Echo Chambers – When the Country You Live In Is Invisible
February 11, 2026
In 2011 researchers asked over 5,000 Americans how wealth is distributed. They guessed the top 20 percent owned 59 percent; the real figure was 84. They guessed the bottom 40 percent held 9 percent; the real figure was 0.3. An…
ComplianceHealth and Wellness Echo Chambers – When Reasonable Skepticism Becomes a Sealed Room
February 11, 2026
It starts reasonable: processed food has unpronounceable chemicals, drug companies chase profit, doctors get things wrong, all true. Then the algorithm clocks your click, and within a week each sensible doubt has escalated into a sealed conspiracy, every step feeling…