When fourteen-year-old Cassie is sent to a weekend artists' retreat at an abandoned psychiatric facility, she expects to be bored. What she finds instead is a labyrinth where stories have power, reality bends like watercolor, and something sinister lurks beneath the promise of finding your voice.

Drawing on transaction cost economics and real-world corporate disasters, Habib shows why the convergence of all information into AI-readable formats isn't just another technology upgrade-it's an economic disruption that will reshape how humans coordinate work. He exposes the "Information-Commercial Complex" fighting to preserve profitable...

Content businesses face a fundamental shift from "pull-based" discovery—where audiences actively seek content—to a "push-based" paradigm where algorithms deliver content to passive consumers. This book examines how three converging disruptions—Google's evolution into an answer engine, short-form video dominance, and privacy-driven advertising...