Take the Ticket
I watch a lot of traffic stop videos, and the ticket is never what got them. The ticket was a piece of paper. What happens in the twenty minutes afterward is what ruins people.
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Character DevelopmentThe Sunk Cost Fallacy: Why Smart People Keep Paying for Bad Decisions
A sunk cost is any resource you cannot get back, and letting it influence the next decision is the fallacy. How to spot it in your own work, how to tell it apart from persistence, and how writers use it…
Critical ThinkingBehind the Book: Sins of the Internet
It began around 2000 as a couple dozen HTML pages and grew across 25 years into a book. Here is the story behind my moral critique of the digital age.
Critical ThinkingBehind the Book: Ridiculous Things People Actually Believe
An episode of Ancient Aliens started it. Here is the story behind my unsparing field guide to conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and the machinery that sells them.
Character DevelopmentForty Years of Cases Nobody Explained
A psychiatrist at the University of Virginia spent four decades collecting cases of small children who described lives they had not lived, including 210 whose birthmarks matched wounds on the person they claimed to have been.
AttentionCell Phones vs. The Real World
We have become hypnotized by small glowing screens, tuning out driving, conversation, and the world. Here is what it costs and how to put the phone down.
Critical ThinkingHow Writing Builds Growth and Emotional Intelligence
Writing is one of the most effective tools for personal growth, emotional intelligence, and clear thinking. Here is how putting thoughts on paper changes you.
BiasEverybody’s Prejudiced: Including the Man Who Wrote This
Most people think prejudice is something other people have. This book takes that apart. Richard Lowe puts his own biases on the table first, then shows that t
AIThe Death of Thinking: What Outsourcing Judgment Costs
What happens when you consistently outsource your thinking to AI? Documents that pattern, its causes, costs, and what gets lost before you notice.
Critical ThinkingThe Emasculation of America: What Bezmenov Described and Nobody Acted On
A national security argument. Documents the sixty-year Soviet operation to target American masculinity and degrade national capacity. Not a culture war book.
Cold WarYuri Bezmenov and the Four Stages of Subversion
In 1984 a former Soviet propagandist described four stages for taking a country apart: demoralize a generation, destabilize its institutions, manufacture a crisis, normalize what follows. He said the first stage was already finished in America.
AIDo What I Did Before I Had the Tools, Then Do What I Do With Them
People are outsourcing the one thing they should never outsource, and the instruction that would fix it is one almost nobody is now in a position to follow.