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John Rector is a co-founder of E2open, which had a $2.1 billion exit in May 2025. In January 2026, he opened Charleston AI, a 3,000-square-foot facility focused on helping individuals and organizations understand and use AI. He is the author of several books including World War AI, The Coming AI Subconscious, Robot Noon, and Love, The Cosmic Dance.
- The First Asset
- The Capacity Receipt | App to Stack
- The Door Counts the Crowd
- The Thursday Inside the Job
- The Eval Is in Your Stomach
- Make Claude Cowork Your Medical Bill Clerk
- A Life Has No Wage
- Masterpiece: The Guilds, the Apprentice, and Who Makes the Masters When the Small Work Is Gone
- Silence Is Not Consent
- The Tempo Attention Trusts
- The Case That Can Report | App to Stack
- Paid Has No Maybe
- The Laundry Is Still Done
- The Ratchet Has No Reverse
- The Startup That Sells a Tuesday
- The Cost of Being Checked
- The Question That Moves With You
- Nothing Owed: Mauss, the Gift, and the Bonds Your Delegate Cannot Make
- Cogitating
- Against the Sun: Bastiat, the Candlemakers, and the Politics of Free Intelligence
- The Paradox of Intelligence
- The Part That Cannot Be Split
- The First Mark: A Creation Myth for Love, The Cosmic Dance
- The Free Arts
- The Offer That Can Answer | App to Stack
- You Do Not Owe Us Monday
- The Address Stays
- The Room That Learns Your Name
- Good Enough: Herbert Simon’s Satisficing in the Age of Tireless Search
- Software Eats the Rest of the World
- It Knows When to Stop
- The Jury of Copies: Condorcet and the End of Independent Errors
- Intuition Leads to Ubiquity
- The Wintering Rule: Ostrom’s Commons in the Age of Infinite Delegates
- Work Expands: Parkinson’s Law in the Age of Free Subordinates
- Face Value: Trust, Liability, and the Human Face in an Age of Perfect Copies
- Nobody Is Wet
- Except AI
- The Growing Key | App to Stack
- A Place in the Front Row
- On the Spot: The Knowledge Problem and the Planner That Lives Where You Are
- The Fence Remembers
- The Second Notice Is Not the First
- Parking at Miller’s All Day: Know Your License Plate
- The Warranty Layer | App to Stack
- The Shower Knob
- The Bundlers Buy Intelligence
- The Grocer Sends Less
- The Thought Attention Hears
- The Rope Is a Contract
- Only Variety Absorbs Variety
- The Crowd Needs Strangers
- The Cost Is in the Pairs
- The Intelligent Assistant: A Dedicated Relationship With AI
- The No File | App to Stack
- Ego: The Claim of “Mine”
- The Job Finds You
- Ready for the First Frame
- BEing: Not Yours
- The Threshold Attention Keeps
- What the Judge Was Not Shown
- Being an Actualizer
- The Suit Has to Sit Down
- The Habit of Earning
- Trillions: The Consumer Economy After Peak Human
- A Life Supplied: The Bundled Economy and the Human at Its Center
- The Half That Works
- Henry Ford, the 40-Hour Week, and the Rise of Consumerism
- The Near Miss Attention Remembers
- The Wire Does the Math
- The Fire Goat Returns
- The Trail Is the Message
- Forgetting Was Free
