My mission as both a high-end consultant and a writer is the same. It is the same mission shown in every story ever told – the Hero’s Journey. That journey is the human condition. While a small number of us came in as the Bill Gates of the world, that really is just the 2%ers […]

“So I wrote a novel, now what?” Introduction I was asked this recently online and felt the need to help out. Like most successful creative ventures, there is a lot of sausage making. Producing a novel is no exception. The reality is that this question should have been asked BEFORE starting the novel. That said, […]

Life isn’t fair. I think this reality was as daunting to me then as it is to my teenager today. As a young consultant do we ever work less than a 70 hour week? No, because the professional services manager doesn’t want to bother the sales team with a change order to extended the scope […]

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Ok I lied. I promised to shift gears from the emotional sphere to the mental sphere after providing one measly emotional tactic – tapping into fear. But can you really take over the world with this tactic alone?  Sure, along with the tactic, I did provide the example of 911 and how the terrorists “owned” […]

As fate would have it, a friend, Michael Velasco, asked me to follow up on a recent pro-vaccination article ( http://bit.ly/1ifvLPc ) and I realized this would be a perfect demonstration of a headless conspiracy using the Jedi Mind Trick #1 – Fear Mongering ( http://bit.ly/1lGZocU ) What is interesting about this subject is that there are […]

The prior blog discussed real secret government conspiracies and how most of them are “headless.”  As a practicing Cith, this article teaches you how to create your very own secret government conspiracy through fear mongering. In practice, there are many tactical moves that can kick a headless conspiracy into existence. These tactics oddly resemble Jedi […]

We had such an excellent run yesterday with the FREE download promotion that the publisher extended the promotion into today.  We had over 800 downloads Hit #1 in the two selected categories #1 in Kindle > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Genetic Engineering #1 in Kindle > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > […]

Download for free March 21-22 at http://amzn.to/NqzVHO What if a terrorist were a computer virus, its weapon a defect, and its target the U.S. military’s eyes and ears? Welcome to post 9-11 where the lines are blurred between terrorists and superpowers, military and civilian, and virtual and reality. In a war of information everyone is […]

I am asked this question often, and the simple answer is “life.”  That is, I cheat. As an independent high end consultant in information technology, my job has me roaming the world, wheeling and dealing with: fortune 500 companies, large government agencies, and secret military projects.  At home life has forced me to come to […]