THE TRAINING
University of Chicago, BA in economics and psychology. One discipline studies what people choose and the other studies why they were always going to choose it, and the space between those two answers became my career. I went deep into the neuroscience of influence, the physical machinery of habit, desire, and decision, because I wanted to know where choices actually come from before anyone dressed the answer up in philosophy.
The Anonymity
Stan Taylor is a pen name, and I tell you that on my own about page because this entire operation runs on a bet most publishers would call suicidal: that transparency sells better than polish. The anonymity is permanent. My former clients prefer it, my former colleagues require it, and the work is built to stand without a face attached. You are here because something in your life keeps running a program you never chose, and I know how that program was written.
THE BIG IDEA
Extraction is the organizing principle of the modern world. Medical systems, media, markets, platforms, casinos, and ad networks are engineered to harvest predictable people, and the engineering is superb. Nobody is coming to regulate it away, and no election will vote it out, because the machinery predates every politician who promises to fix it.
THE PROOF
The reader groups are where the theory goes to get tested, and they are the part of this operation I am proudest of. Thousands of members documenting the daily work in public: catches, relapses, guillotines executed, parents holding steady through a storm that Chapter 5 predicted by name. The groups have one strange feature you will notice immediately. They are designed to be outgrown, and when someone announces they are leaving, we congratulate them. Both books were built to make you stop needing them, and that includes needing me.
Stop being predictable
That single sentence is my answer to every macro question I get asked. A regulated nervous system plus influence literacy survives every scenario the doomers can imagine. And underneath it sits one more idea, the one every reader eventually collides with: there is no real self buried under your programming waiting to be found. There is only the programming, and the ability to choose what replaces it. Everything I have written terminates at that choice.
1st Release
The Black Book of Power
Released October 2025
1st Release
The Black Book of PowerEvery mechanism I spent a career deploying, documented and turned over to the target. The Black Book of Power is an execution program, built around protocols you run in your actual life: 21 days of rewiring how other people's emotions move through your nervous system, the identification and execution of the parasite that has been running your decisions, and 72 hours that stress-test the person who comes out the other side. Then, and only then, the influence frameworks, because handing persuasion tools to an unrepaired nervous system is how manipulators get made.
2nd Release
The Little Dictator
Released July 2026
2nd Release
The Little DictatorThe Little Dictator book turns the same lens on the first relationship any human being is shaped by. Every unnecessary rescue a parent performs pays the parent a neurochemical wage and quietly bills the child, and 10,000 of those transactions build a childhood. The Little Dictator treats the rescue reflex as the literal addiction the brain scans say it is, and prescribes the same medicine that worked in the first book: a structured 21-day detox, executed one day at a time, with the storms mapped in advance. Parents arrive braced for judgment and find none, because the book blames the wiring and keeps the person.
If the fight is with your own patterns, start with The Black Book of Power. If the fight is with what your love keeps doing to your child, start with The Little Dictator. Either way, the reading is the easy part, the protocols are the point, and the price is the first test of whether you actually mean it.
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Read My Essays
Conversational Narcissism: The Cannibal at the Table
Why you keep consuming the people in front of you to fill a hole dug in childhood.
A Lesson in Power Dynamics at Work
See how getting good at your job switches off the brain circuit that reads power.
The Fawn Response: An Education in Disappearing for Others
Why does being useful feels like the surest way to be loved?
The Know-It-All Personality: Why the 'Smartest' Person Builds Nothing
Why does the 'smartest' person in the room tend to build nothing?
Therapy Dependency: When Therapy Needs You to Stay Broken
In reading this, you will meet the one product the industry cannot afford to cure: the perpetual patient.
Am I the Toxic One? An Honest Diagnostic
Close the wound or bleed to death believing your emotional hemorrhaging is holy.
How To Manipulate a Narcissist
Why does this person make me feel like I'm losing my mind?
How to Stop Being a People Pleaser: A Final Warning
Is this really who you are, or just who you learned to be to survive?
Why You Feel Stuck: The Parasite Eating Your Potential
Why am I still reading about change instead of changing?
"Be Yourself" Is Terrible Advice When Identity Isn't a Choice
What if the one piece of advice everyone agrees on is actually destroying your life?
"We Need to Talk": Why Four Words Trigger Total Panic
The four-word phrase that has likely held your body hostage before.
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