Why Being Around Drinking Friends Can Feel Uncomfortable – and Why That Feeling Is Often Completely Normal Over the past years I’ve been navigating something that I don’t usually talk about publicly. I’m currently almost four weeks into sobriety. One thing I’ve noticed – something that has happened every time I’ve tried to quit drinking…
JeremyAbram.net Series A multi-book series exposing how modern industries shape choices, harvest data, and quietly transfer risk to the people they call “customers.” Every industry has consumers. Every industry has incentives. And in the technology-driven economy, those incentives are increasingly optimized for retention, extraction, and automation — not for your clarity, privacy, or long-term well-being.…
The Truth About Gas Rewards Programs – Exposed. How Fuel Rewards Programs Reshape Your Wallet, Your Choices, and Your Data Gasoline is one commodity almost every adult purchases — often more than once per week, and often without comparison shopping. That recurring necessity makes fuel one of the most emotionally charged, price-visible, and behaviorally leveraged…
How “Free Rewards” Turn Your Purchases Into Data, Pricing Levers, and Behavioral Gravity You’ve seen it everywhere: It feels like a perk. It sounds like fairness. It markets like a gift. But loyalty programs aren’t charity. They’re one of the most efficient consumer-engineering systems modern commerce has ever deployed—because they don’t just change what you…
“Drink Responsibly” Has No Definition – So I Wrote One Hospitality • Compliance • Culture • Technology (and why a two-word slogan isn’t enough anymore) Drink Responsibly – DEFINED The Book of Definition Not Included With Your Alcohol Purchase Most people can repeat the phrase. Almost nobody can define it. This book turns a vague…
How Personal Digital Device Use Reshaped Work Performance — From Pagers to Smartphones The Attention Leak What Employers Aren’t Measuring — and Employees Hope They Never Do by Jeremy Abram If today’s productivity feels “off,” this book puts numbers and structure behind what most workplaces only sense: digital distraction has become an operational cost. The…
Living In Tune — How Frequencies Shape Your Mood, Relationships & Reality JeremyAbram.net • Book View on Amazon Living In Tune How Frequencies Shape Your Mood, Relationships & Reality Unlock the hidden signals shaping your inner world, your relationships, and every decision you make. Neuroscience + psychology Resonance + regulation No mysticism Includes FRI™ assessment…
A rumor like “Uber is selling ride schedules and route data to the highest bidder” spreads fast because it sounds like something the modern data economy would do. But the truth is usually more specific — and the specifics are where the real risk lives. Here’s the factual, documented baseline: So: is Uber selling your…
Parents aren’t imagining it: screens don’t just occupy children — they shape them. The modern screen isn’t a TV on the wall anymore. It’s a handheld, interactive, always-available dopamine slot machine with infinite novelty, frictionless swiping, autoplay, and persuasive design baked in. This article breaks down what research and major health organizations say about screen…
By Jeremy Abram · JeremyAbram.net We live in a world where misunderstandings happen faster than ever — a short text, a delayed reply, a shift in tone, or a look that means one thing to you and something entirely different to someone else. Most conflict doesn’t come from what happens… it comes from how we…