Economics decides which books get written, published, and read, whatever the artistic merits. These articles cover the economics of writing: publishing money, author income, and the market forces every working writer lives inside.
AIEvery big technology wave follows the same curve, from wild expectations to a crash to quiet usefulness. Gartner says generative AI is already in the trough, yet the spending keeps climbing, and the people pumping it up are the ones…
Digital TransformationA specific kind of softness had developed in my own work and in the work of writers and programmers I know. Not laziness. Not incompetence. A softness in the instrument itself.
Business BooksThis started as a money problem. The turning point was treating income generation as a science experiment instead of following it like a religion.
EconomicsOxford Exchange occupies an 1891 building across from the University of Tampa that began life as a stable. Blake Casper and his sister restored it and opened in 2012. Bookstore, restaurant, tea room, and workspace in one, with the books…
CorruptionHow private equity transformed American commerce from serving customers to extracting value. Thirteen industries documented. The playbook never changes.
Business BooksExecutives who built great businesses, explaining how they were pressured to dismantle what made those businesses great.
EconomicsA magic system with no rules is just a plot convenience; a kingdom with no economy has no stakes; a culture with no history is a theme park. World building is the foundation everything else stands on, not set dressing.…
Authority Through AuthorshipIn 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…
AudiobookA car loses half its value leaving the lot; a book loses 90 percent before you finish the first chapter. Last week a $32.99 hardcover sat three aisles over, used, for $4.95, identical words, a fraction of the price. It…
ADHD$10,000 in affiliate marketing. $35,000 on eBay. Twelve years of experiments. Here's what worked, and why most gig economy advice is complete garbage.
Authority Through AuthorshipJoe Rockey returns to Leaders and Their Stories to argue the next recession is a human problem, not an economic one: disengagement over economics, earned benefits over participation trophies, and why caring about people, not cutting AI, is the real…
Career StoryThe 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…
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