Drew HalsteadAuthor & systems thinker

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They Get Rich. You Get Played. by Drew Halstead, with people controlled by bright red marionette strings.

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THEY GET RICH. YOU GET PLAYED.

How Companies Manufacture Reality, Manipulate Your Choices, and Profit from Your Trust

An hour lost to scrolling. A crisis staged to keep you watching. A perfect life performed for an audience. Drew Halstead examines how businesses turn attention, emotion, and trust into profit, and how to recognize when your goal is being replaced by someone else's.

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The Defect Detector by Drew Halstead. A broken measuring instrument beneath the title.

Available now / Drew Halstead's first book

The Defect Detector

Why Normal Is the Wrong Measuring Stick

A mind can find the defect and still be judged by the wrong standard. Drew Halstead examines what happens when schools, workplaces, research, and advocacy measure conformity before they measure function.

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