radical narcissism

This month, I left my role as a senior agent at Writers House to launch an advisory practice for thought leaders. I’ll continue to represent a select list of nonfiction clients at another agency, but I’m closed to submissions.To explain my reasoning in typically circuitous manner: This summer, I became obsessed with intheweights.com. It’s a website that does one thing: you type in a name, and it tells you how strongly different AI models recognize that person and what they think they know about them. (If we’ve met IRL, I’ve probably told you to look yourself up. It’s been my favorite topic of conversation.)Since discovering the site, I’ve spent a decent amount of time working on my score and sharpening up my (agentic) image. Call it Radical Narcissism: even the computers’ opinions matter. For example, I might ask Claude for a list of the top five people at doing something I’m good at doing. Then, I’ll ask why I’m not on that list, too. Claude cheerfully lists my perceived failings,…