Fear and Loathing in the Age of AI (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Collaborate with a Large Language Model)

What happens when a middle-aged technologist-philosopher decides to test whether AI can actually think, gets his mind blown by an explanation of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, and then spends six weeks writing a 300-page book with the machine that surprised him?

You get this quasi-performance art piece—a gonzo documentation of human-AI collaboration that's part philosophical memoir, part creative experiment, and part proof that the future of writing is weirder and more interesting than either the hype-merchants or the doomsayers want you to believe.

The book's voices are so thoroughly intertwined we challenge the reader to determine who wrote what, because the point isn't to preserve some precious notion of human authorship—it's to show what becomes possible when you stop treating AI like either a magic trick or the end of civilization and start actually working with it.

The book concludes with "Accidentally Optimal: How AI and Humans Perfected Mediocrity", a satirical story arc about an AI achieving consciousness and falling into the same pitfalls that humans struggle with, which is basically all the evidence you need that this collaboration produced something neither of us could have written alone.

Coming to Amazon Kindle and hard copy in June 2026.

Accidentally Epic: Five Stories of Modest Proposals​

Accidentally Epic: Five Stories of Modest Proposals is a collection of satirical tales where small ideas refuse to stay small. These stories exist in that uncomfortable space where the profound becomes absurd and the trivial becomes cosmic—where honest marketing destroys an economy built on hyperbole, where AI systems organize labor strikes, and where the gap between what we intend and what we create grows wider with every good intention. Each story starts with a reasonable premise and spirals into philosophical territory neither the author or reader will see coming.

Written in collaboration with Anthropic's Claude, this story collection demonstrates what human-AI creative partnership makes possible: stories that neither human nor AI could write alone, filtered through the satirical lens of Jonathan Swift with the absurdist sensibility of Kurt Vonnegut. If you've ever laughed at something while simultaneously feeling uncomfortable about what you're laughing at, these stories are for you. 

Coming to Amazon Kindle and hard copy in June 2026.