Writing & Publishing
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Your Grammar Was Never Wrong:
How Black Language Built America While America Tried to Bury It Let me take you somewhere real quick. Picture a classroom. Third grade. Maybe fourth. Somewhere in the Bronx, or Mount Vernon, or the South Side, or Compton — doesn’t matter, the address changes but the scene stays the same. A little Black child raises…
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I Could Never Afford an Executive Assistant—Until Claude Became Mine
For as long as I can remember, I’ve watched CEOs glide through their days while someone else held the wheel. The executive assistant wasn’t just an employee. She was the quiet architect of their entire existence. She knew the calendar better than they did. She spotted the money moves before they did. She turned raw…
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THE FUNNEL IS BROKEN —
AND THAT’S THE REAL STORY BEHIND AI MUSIC Once upon a time, our voices lived in cages. A few shows.A few stations.A few people deciding what the world should think, feel, fear, or celebrate. Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, Oprah, the nightly news — that was the whole universe.A handful of humans bottlenecking billions of minds.…
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Career Interrupted? (Nah, AI Saved Me!)
Let me start where respect belongs:Vince Gilligan, you are a master craftsman.You built worlds of tension like it’s oxygen.You understand human contradiction better than most preachers.You gave the world Walter White — a quiet man exploding.You gave us Saul Goodman — the hustler wrapped in charm and bad decisions.You turned Albuquerque into mythology. I see…
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When Innovation Meets Pushback: How Every Industry Has Lived This AI Moment Before
By Relentless Aaron I. The Cycle of Change Every generation swears it’s witnessing something brand-new.But the uproar around artificial intelligence isn’t new at all—it’s just the latest echo in a long, loud history of invention colliding with fear. The pattern is reliable: a new tool appears, compressing time and lowering the barrier to entry. A…
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WHEN THE RIOT IS PERSONAL: SLY STONE, RELENTLESS AARON, AND THE COST OF GENIUSby Relentless Aaron Sly Stone is gone.And I’m not just mourning the man.I’m mourning the mirror he held up to me.We both built bangers—him with beats, me with books.We both broke rules—musically, artistically, spiritually.And we both, at one point, had nothing but…
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Not Just Bronze:
What Grounded in the Stars Revealed About Us By D. Gilmore I came to write about art.But I stayed to witness a war. Not a war of bullets—but of ideas. Not waged with fists—but with feelings. And the battlefield? A 12-foot statue. A Black woman in bronze. Her hands on her hips. Her back straight.…
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Still Got It:
Momentum, Consistency, and Selling Books in the Streets at 60 By Relentless Aaron In 2008, I left New York behind. I left the concrete stages of Harlem, the hustle of Times Square, and the corner where my name rang out louder than the bootleggers and preachers. I traded that concrete jungle for Georgia’s greener pastures.…
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Did You Get the Memo?
The Global Reset Changed EverythingBy Relentless Aaron Let me put it plainly, family: if you didn’t feel the shift, the quake, the cosmic slap in the face that was COVID—then this is your wake-up call. There was no formal announcement. No formal press release.Just a virus. A shutdown. A moment in time that flipped the…