The lure of overnight success, a boom, a bust. Deconstructing the dynamic that exacerbated one of America’s most-significant boom-bust events to highlight how that dynamic has infused itself into almost every industry during the so-called Information Age.

Outlining the difference between practitioners and promoters and how the boom-bust cycle gets perpetuated by the natural asymmetries within the dynamic between them.

A review of the practitioners and promoters in an industry currently crumbling—writing.

Deconstructing the fundamental shift that takes place when you shift from producing a product to performing a service.

The unstated goal of a self-help author is to convince readers they’re not ready to get started until they’ve purchased a book that won’t help them get started.

I mean, it can’t hurt, right?

If nothing else, the eight years I’ve spent muddling along in that industry have provided a better understanding of what’s happening to our discourse on a macro level.

Deconstructing the various long-term effects when people are incentivized to “retire” their services.

What this brand of scammer realizes is that only amateurs pick a specific topic.

Deconstructing a popular genre we’ll call Master-baiting.

Exploring the paradox of skill in today’s marketplace.

Although it helped many LinkedIn prophets hit their daily quota of posts, some stories don’t need repeating.

An attempt to empathize with executives, revealing my kind of empathy is a little judgy.

The answer to the question “How will this scale?” often involves some version of “Remove the dependency on people.”