Length10h 4m
About this audiobook
In Silicon Valley, even genius is outsourced — and she’s excellent at her job.
She is very good at her job. That has become the problem.
Vera Calloway arrives at her newest consulting engagement with a clear brief and no illusions. Her client — a tech CEO with a sprawling AI company and a public intellectual presence described diplomatically as “underperforming his capacity” — needs a thought leadership program. She’s built them before. She can build this one.
What Vera discovers in the first week is more precise than she expected: Caleb Mast has, by any rigorous standard, never had an original thought. He synthesizes, aggregates, recombines with genuine skill — but the source material is always someone else’s. He simply doesn’t notice.
Vera notices. And then she gets to work.
Audiobook details
GenreHumor
Length10 hrs 4 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
16Chapter 14: The Aftermath
2Acknowledgments
17Chapter 15: The Journalist
3Chapter 1: The Audit
18Chapter 16: The Believers
4Chapter 2: The Brief
19Chapter 17: The Book
5Chapter 3: First Contact
20Chapter 18: The Spiral
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6Chapter 4: The Inventory
21Chapter 19: Caleb Believes
7Chapter 5: The Architecture
22Chapter 20: The Interview
8Chapter 6: The Ghostwriter’s Toolkit
23Chapter 21: Exposure
9Chapter 7: Pilot Episode
24Chapter 22: The Machine Holds
10Chapter 8: Traction
25Chapter 23: The Exit Interview
11Chapter 9: The Book Proposal
26Chapter 24: The Learning Edge
12Chapter 10: The TED Machine
27Chapter 25: Thought Leadership
13Chapter 11: The Original Thought Problem
28Character Guide
14Chapter 12: Production
29References & Bibliography
15Chapter 13: The Talk
30About the Author
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