Economy

… that I mostly agree with. From Balaji Srinivasan (1) First, the new bottleneck on AI is prompting and verifying. Since AI does tasks middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. So business spend [...]

I was asked about this the other day, and found myself unable to answer without changing my mind. Here’s the list. But in no particular order. Boiler Room Glengarry Glen Ross Mrs Watanabe: [...]

‘More are published than could ever succeed’ From the Guardian …self-publishing has contributed significantly to book slop mountain. More than 2.6 million books were self-published in 2023 [...]

Kind of like a traveler’s check? Where the bearer signs on receipt? And I wonder, did the bank president and the chief cashier sign every note? Or were they printed on? This note looks a [...]

From 2016, which seems like another world now, but a lot of this rings true for someone considering self publishing. If you self-publish your book, you are not going to be writing for a living. [...]

Rising rent is one of the biggest reasons that bookstores lose their leases. I feel very conflicted about this. On the one hand, I love books and bookstores, and I hate the idea that as business [...]

Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the official hardback cover of The Devil’s Half Mile. It arrived the mail the other day – or at last a half dozen covers arrived, in a long flat [...]

Publishers Weekly was kind enough to interview me recently. An excerpt from the interview appeared in the physical magazine, and another excerpt was posted online this week. PWs Lenny Picker [...]

City Hall Park is one of those rare quarters of New York – a green space that has remained green since it was first laid down by the city planners. You can see quite clearly from the four [...]

I’ve become a bit obsessed with New York’s Trinity Church over the last few years. It’s hard not to, when you’re writing historical fiction based around Wall Street. If [...]