AI
Why Most Niche Software Vendors Will Soon Perish
AI is making many execs at smaller companies nervous. They should be.
Tag: Publishing
Thoughts, observations, and occasional rants about the strange book business.
Publishing
New Notion Template: Manuscript Word-Count Tracker
A simple way to track your progress as you write. Oh, and it's free.
Consulting
The Curiosity Dividend
A post on the benefits of embracing the unknown.
AI
Does writing a book resemble the Waterfall method or Scrum? Yes.
A book is that rare breed of product that fuses two very different ways to build a mousetrap.
Announcements
Meet RacketHub
Authors, coaches, ghostwriters, and publishers will benefit from Racket Publishing's insanely powerful, flexible, proven, and intuitive book management system.
Collaboration
Why I'm All-in on Notion
Thoughts on my favorite no-code tool these days.
Announcements
Looking for My Next Ghostwriting Project
Want to write a kick-ass book and need an experienced hand?
AI
On Skiing, Spanish, and AI Hallucinations
I put the buzzy new chatbot Claude to the test.
Low-Code/No-Code
Thoughts on Citizen Developers and Author Choices
Why I specifically avoided a few key topics in the new book.
Announcements
Custom Editions of Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace Now Available
Reaching customers, prospects, partners, and employees through a bespoke version of my new book.
Announcements
Publication of Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace
Number 12 is now out. Boom.
Publishing
The Case for Author Experiments
Stuck on a title, subtitle, and cover for your book? Let data show you the way. Oh, and I compare myself to Brad Pitt.
Dataviz
On Hybrid Work, Book Figures, and da Vinci
Employer flexibility is on the rise—and I don't see that trend abating.
Announcements
Announcing My New Author Marketing Course
In The Author Flywheel, I open up my book of author hacks developed and refined over the past twelve years.
Collaboration
How Author Indecision Leads to Missed Opportunities
Thoughts on the downsides of dithering while writing a topical business book—or paying someone to do it for you.
Publishing
A Business Novel?
Let me know if this direction is worth pursuing by voting in a quick poll.
Future of Work
In Which I Stitch Together Booleans, Books, and Influence
Yeah, the three concepts are related.
Faves
Nailing Your Book's Title and Subtitle Is Really Hard—and Essential.
Thoughts on the most important ten or so words that authors write.