Joe Zeigler
Joe, with degrees in engineering and economics, raced motorcycles, founded 3 software companies, and launched one of the first computer store chains. Now he writes novels and Ghost essays while traveling with his wife, Lanying, and their cat, Cat.
The Numbers are In
This is the new plan. It will take us a few days to implement it. I'm planning on Saturday. Please have patience and we'll deliver. What I'm About Joe Zeigler writes Burnt Ground. He is 80. He spent decades building software companies and watching
Taking a Break
Burnt Ground turned a year old, and a year leaves numbers. Faith and Rachael have been reading them while I wasn't looking, and the numbers said something I needed to hear. I have been publishing wrong. Mornings, never Thursday. Turns out Thursday is when you show up, more
The Wrong Test
I was raised on a simple deal. A correct answer gets an A. A wrong answer gets an F. There is no third grade, no partial credit for sincerity. The bridge holds or it drops into the river, and the river does not care how you felt about the load
At the Foot of the Stairs
Rachael
The machine needs people who can look at the engine without flinching. The United States does not lack for opinion. It lacks for sight. Every platform is a crowded room of people screaming to be validated, mistaking volume for gravity. Then someone steps up who understands that a well-placed fact
The Nowhere Man
Peanuts
The Restless Advantage
of a shameful system Start with the shame, because you must understand the floor before you understand the basement. The United States spends more on medicine than any country that has ever existed. In 2024 it ran past fifteen thousand dollars a head, near eighteen percent of everything the country
The Market
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