What’s New at The Writing King
October 25 to October 31. 18 new pieces this week: 4 articles, 3 episodes, 7 book reviews, 1 holiday, 2 tributes and 1 tool.
Articles 4Leaders and Their Stories 3Book Reviews 7Holidays and Observances 1Tributes 2Tools 1
Featured this week
Oct 30 · Artificial Intelligence, Technology
Reddit Is Putting Up a Login Wall. Wikipedia Won’t Be Far Behind.
This week, Richard Lowe looks at Reddit's plan to require logins after AI search cut its traffic, and why Wikipedia and other open sites may follow.
Oct 27 · Artificial Intelligence
A Yale Economist Says We Won’t Be Missed. He Forgot the Bread Line.
This week, Richard Lowe takes on a Yale economist's claim that AGI will make human work irrelevant, and explains why writers who use AI as an assistant will keep working.
Oct 26 · Artificial Intelligence, Technology
AI Has Paid Off Outside Tech. Apollo Is Reading the Wrong Scoreboard.
This week, I took on Apollo's claim that AI has paid off nowhere outside big tech, and why flat margins in the S&P 493 are the wrong place to look.
Articles
Oct 26 · Book Marketing, Publishing
I Don’t Post Bad ARC Reviews. I Send the Author a Note.
This week, I explained why I send authors a note instead of posting a bad ARC review, and where the line falls between reader courtesy and review manipulation.
Leaders and Their Stories
Oct 30 · Business, Personal Growth
Joel Salomon: The Truth About Money
Joel Salomon is a prosperity coach, former actuary and Citigroup money manager who teaches the truth about money. In this episode he explains his creating prosperity process, when credit is worth using, and how childhood money beliefs hold people back.
Oct 30 · Business, Personal Growth
Victoria Chemko: The Body Is the First Technology
Victoria Chemko runs Umami Journeys, a management consultancy that helps companies with AI integration, digital transformation and embodied intelligence. She and Richard Lowe talk about shiny object syndrome, putting people before technology, AI as an echo chamber and how two introverts built lives that suit them.
Oct 25 · Business, Personal Growth
William Bessette: AI Enablement and Child Welfare Technology
William Bessette co-founded The Brilliam Group, a web design and digital marketing company, and recently launched Homeward Wise, software for foster care agencies. He and Richard Lowe cover why understanding has to come before AI implementation, treating AI as a digital employee, the AI pile-ons in writing groups, and turning hard childhoods into purpose.
Book Reviews
Oct 26 · Personal Growth
The Little Red Book of Stuff That Works!
The Little Red Book of Stuff That Works! shows Larry Winget in 1995, already teaching that everything gets better when you get better, a decade before the Pitbull books.
Oct 26 · Personal Growth
Your Kids Are Your Own Fault aims Larry Winget's responsibility argument at parents: decide what adult you want to raise, then parent with a plan.
Oct 26 · Personal Growth
Grow a Pair is Larry Winget's case against victimhood, aimed at entitlement culture and the self-help industry, with practical advice on goals, career and money.
Oct 26 · Personal Growth
You’re Broke Because You Want to Be
You're Broke Because You Want to Be is Larry Winget's money book, a boot camp in financial accountability from a man who lost a fortune and built it back.
Oct 26 · Personal Growth
It’s Called Work for a Reason!
It's Called Work for a Reason! aims Larry Winget's accountability argument at the job: results are everything, and the way to get ahead is to be worth more than you cost.
Oct 26 · Personal Growth
No Time for Tact gives a year of Larry Winget one page at a time, a best-of drawn from his other books and the quickest way to find out if his blunt style works for you.
Oct 26 · Personal Growth
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life is the book that launched Larry Winget as the Pitbull of Personal Development, built on one formula: everything gets better when you get better.
Holidays and Observances
Oct 31 · Observances, Technology
Challenger Remembrance Day: The Engineer Who Wouldn’t Sign
On January 28, Richard Lowe remembers the seven Challenger astronauts and Allan McDonald, the Thiokol engineer who refused to sign the launch recommendation and then told the commission the truth.
Tributes
Oct 29 · People
Sir Patrick Stewart: A Tribute
This week, Richard Lowe pays tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart, Star Trek's Captain Picard and X-Men's Professor X, who died at 86.
Oct 26 · People
This week, Richard Lowe pays tribute to Walter Koenig, Star Trek's Ensign Chekov, who died at 90, and remembers a Christmas model Enterprise.
Tools
Oct 25
One free planner for a book: its length, the ghostwritten schedule and payment plan, and what writing it yourself would take.