I Have Owned a Lucky Shirt. I Have Knocked on Wood.
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 5)
AEOThe Cracks in AI Search Nobody’s Warning You About
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
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
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
Most nonfiction hands the reader a conclusion and then explains it. The books people remember hand them the evidence and let them arrive.
Book ReviewsThe Future of Reputation
A prescient examination of how the internet transformed privacy, gossip, and reputation, rigorously weighing the tension between free expression and reputational harm. The 2007 examples are dated and the tone is academic, but the core analysis has only grown more…
Book ReviewsPeople Are Idiots and I Can Prove It!
A blunt, funny, fearless argument for personal accountability in a voice that refuses to coddle. I rate it a ten because it earned it with me, real impact during hard times, cutting through where gentler books failed. Not for the…
CensorshipBook Banning: History, Motivations, and Why It Matters
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
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
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
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
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…