Anger Gets Six Times the Engagement. The Rest Follows From That.
We saw the warning signs. Facebook was making us depressed, Twitter was making us angry, and we kept using them anyway.
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Building a presence online without losing your mind or your time. LinkedIn, profiles, personal branding, and a clear-eyed look at which platforms are worth it. Plus why a book beats a thousand posts for real authority.
Authority Through AuthorshipHow a Book Builds Your Brand Identity
Logos, color palettes, and taglines tell people what your brand looks like. They say nothing about what it thinks. For an entrepreneur or executive, a book is the one asset that does, and it is more powerful than any visual…
Online Safety for WritersLinkedIn Account Restricted: What to Do and How to Prevent It
That your LinkedIn account has been restricted notice is a gut punch, because for most professionals the platform is where expertise lives and prospects gather. When it goes dark, so does all of that. Drawing on decades in computer operations,…
Online Safety for WritersSocial Media Privacy: What You’re Actually Giving Away
Every like, share, and photo you post is data, collected, stored, analyzed, and frequently sold. Most people know that in the abstract and almost no one grasps it in practice. Drawing on 20 years running enterprise computer operations, here is…
Authority Through AuthorshipYou Just Got Laid Off: Fix up your LinkedIn And Write Your Book
A layoff makes the ground vanish: one day a title and a team, the next a kitchen table and a question. I have worked with clients in exactly that spot, suddenly holding severance and time. Here is why that unwelcome…
Authority Through AuthorshipYour Profile Photo: Why It Matters More Than You Think
Before anyone reads your bio or looks at your work, they see your face, and they judge it in milliseconds. That snap impression is hard to undo. After building more than 100 professional profiles, here is why the profile photo…
Scams & FraudHow to Audit Your Social Media | A Cybersecurity Perspective
Most social media audits are about looking professional: clean up the photos, polish the profile. That misses the real risk. Your posts, check-ins, and images are a map for anyone who wants to find you. Here is how to audit…
Public Speaking & CommunicationBusiness Networking: How an Introvert Built a Career and a Business on Relationships
I am an introvert who spent years keeping my head down and treating asking for help as weakness. That nearly cost me everything. What rebuilt my career was the opposite: real relationships, built slowly through doing the work. Here is…
Authority Through AuthorshipCrafting Powerful LinkedIn Recommendations: 7 Top Tips
Marketing gurus swear LinkedIn recommendations matter; no client has ever told me one brought them to me, and I never read anyone else's. They sit buried below where people scroll. Yet I still request and write them, because a complete…
How Ghostwriting WorksVideo Interviewing Tips: What Hundreds of Client Interviews Taught Me About Getting It Right on Camera
Every book I write starts on Zoom, where I spend hours, sometimes weeks, drawing out a client's stories and voice before writing a single word. The interview quality sets the book's ceiling. After hundreds of these sessions, here is what…
Authority Through AuthorshipLinkedIn’s Algorithm Changed. Here’s What Actually Works in 2026.
Watched your LinkedIn reach collapse in late 2025? The algorithm shifted, and most advice from 2023 and 2024 now works against you, posting constantly, hashtag-chasing, perfect timing, all dead. Here is what genuinely moves reach in 2026: saves, dwell time,…
Character DevelopmentLessons from the Critical Drinker’s Reviews
Behind the whisky and the profanity, the Critical Drinker dissects setup, payoff, and character arc more sharply than most paid film critics. The persona is a drunk ranting at a bar; the analysis is anything but. The press files him…