Forty years ago I caught myself talking to my dead mother on a hiking trail, narrating the plants to someone who wasn't there.
That moment turned out to be the way into my next book: The Mostly Helpful Psychopath, about the machine that speaks beautifully and understands nothing. How it actually works, how it fools us, and what it's doing to our minds, our relationships, and our words.
Unlike Unmanaged, I'm writing this one in the open. Chapters land on Substack as they're ready, and they'll change as I go—that's the point. Chapters 0 and 1 are up now.
If you want to follow along—and argue with me, which I'd genuinely welcome—subscribe here: The Influence Machine on Substack
More soon.
— Jack