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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.
- Everyone Gets Remembered
- The Priority Right | App to Stack
- The Intention Has to Survive
- What Is a Bluff
- The Superpower Is Fewer Seams
- Where Intention Becomes Real
- The Served and the Unserved
- The Subscription Class
- The Context Budget | App to Stack
- The Repair Attention Keeps
- The Warranty on Words
- What Is a Miracle
- The Moving Baseline | App to Stack
- The Hinge Attention Turns
- The Day Gets Wider
- The Border Attention Recognizes
- What Is Revenge
- The Middle of the Beach
- The Assessment Split | App to Stack
- The Weather Attention Becomes
- What Is Obvious
- Better at Everything
- The Default Refusal | App to Stack
- Make Claude Cowork Your License Clerk
- Seven Orders for the File Factory
- What Is Unconditional
- The Queue Attention Enters
- Planted at Yesterday’s Price
- The $500 SpaceX Utility Bill
- When the Output Becomes the Input
- The Reference Right | App to Stack
- The File Factory
- Nature Is Most Likely
- The Tuning Attention Hears
- What Is a Calling
- The Shortest Stave
- Most Likely, Least Likely
- The Stack Mirror | App to Stack
- The Second Look Outbids the First
- What Is a Rut
- The Border Attention Crosses
- The Second-Cheapest Way to Find Out
- The Stack Executor | App to Stack
- What Is the Root Cause
- The X-Ray Attention Takes
- The Rising Floor
- The Work Claim | App to Stack
- What Is “It Hasn’t Sunk In”
- A Relationship Is Not an Agreement
- The Inch Attention Notices
- The Glass Denominator
- Our Relationship with Ideas: The Geometry of Bias
- The Parity Test | App to Stack
- What Is Willpower
- The Chorus Attention Joins
- Nobody Lives the Average
- The Capability Commons | App to Stack
- The Breaker Attention Trips
- What Is an Open Mind
- The Fence That Worked
- The Stack Citizen | App to Stack
- The Missing Shape Attention Finds
- Make Claude Cowork Your Claim Clerk
- What Is Managing Expectations
- Trust Keeps Its Own Clock
- The Stack Handshake | App to Stack
- What Is “It Worked”
- The Aperture Attention Opens
- The Expensive Hour
- The Learning Margin | App to Stack
- The First Thought
- Serving the Customer Who Never Looks
- When the Matter Comes Back
