AIFebruary 10, 2026
Three hours of sleep, a business rebuilt from scratch, and an AI assistant that worries about my health more than my doctor, half a joke, half a genuinely strange observation about where the working relationship with AI has landed. When…
BiasFebruary 10, 2026
Across this series we walked through the echo chambers of social media, news, AI, academia, religion, publishing, geography, family, forums, influencers, and a weaponized TikTok. What started abstract turned out to be measurable, personal, and inescapable, mind control by consensus,…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 10, 2026
WeWork rented desks. Its IPO prospectus claimed to elevate the world's consciousness. Scott Galloway called that gap yogababble, and the term stuck because everyone had seen it. The same inflation creeps into books when clients reach for credentials they have…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
Political correctness is a moving target, and for anyone writing a book it shapes what you can say and how you say it. Here are seven honest insights into where it helps, where it constrains, and how writers and ghostwriters…
BiasFebruary 9, 2026
When intelligent people make terrible arguments, logical fallacies are usually the culprit. They are wrecking our capacity for productive conversation, and social media turned it into a spectator sport. Here are the ten I see most often, with the fixes.
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
On trigger warnings, both camps are half right and neither is listening, protection on one side, censorship on the other. The real question is quieter: should a book tell you what is inside before you open it? Having ghostwritten memoirs…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
A political tweet looks spontaneous and almost never is, it is engineered to trigger fear and outrage in 280 characters, with context stripped out on purpose. In 2024 both campaigns weaponized the format. Once you see the machinery, it loses…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
You step into the booth to vote your values, but the wording of a ballot initiative can quietly steer you somewhere else, loaded phrasing, deliberate confusion, false simplicity. In skilled hands, the language itself becomes the manipulation. Here is how…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
Someone posts a stray apostrophe and a self-appointed enforcer arrives with more smugness than the error earned. But grammar correction is about context, and the corrector usually misses the point.
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
Both sides of the woke-writing fight miss the point: one insists progressive themes wreck stories, the other insists on them, and neither is talking about craft. Themes do not ruin a book. Weak writing does. Here is how to fold…
BiasFebruary 9, 2026
Nonfiction should help us see the world more clearly, but too often it just flatters the worldview readers walked in with, because the likes and shares flow to whatever confirms the audience, not whatever challenges it. The louder the echo,…
AI OverrelianceFebruary 9, 2026
AI does not think. It predicts, ChatGPT finishing your sentence, YouTube queuing the next video, all of it guessing from what you already liked. The better it learns you, the more it serves you back to yourself, and an AI…
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