An old adage from my researcher days seems pertinent. You write yourself into knowledge. This probably goes some way to answer the question in the title.

A writer faces a taboo in his family history. What is real and what is fantasy in his recollections?

A royal historian, Kamil, is called to the court of his emperor. He is commissioned to write the history of a famous man, a magus, who lived many centuries before

Stories with a twist: This is Jack Sanger’s podcast channel. It contains stories to bewilder, beguile and raise the hairs on your neck. All are works of fiction from the wide ranging imagination of Jack Sanger.

This book consists of a collection of aphorisms, a continuation of the process of thought distillation first pursued in An A to Zen of Management.