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Josh R's avatar

Reads like a (shorter) Screwtape Letters to me; well done. Just have to get a John Cleese-type to read it.

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

BRB got him on speed dial haha

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Josh R's avatar

There's always Step 5....

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

LOL - i might code some AI to do it

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Josh R's avatar

I think you missed "If you're not a good writer, just prompt AI to write it for you, change a few words, and claim it's your writing", probably fit into Step 1. I figured you may've kept it out due to it being so bad it shouldn't even be in parody.

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

I kept it out because it has never crossed my mind. But yes. AI making content 🤮

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Mariana Herrera Mosli's avatar

Inception meets Mad Max. That’s what my mind came up with after reading your words and Josh, I’m not mad at it.

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

you know what, me neither !

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Mariana Herrera Mosli's avatar

😆

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Whitney Lane's avatar

Oh he IS very Mad Max, good eye

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

Listen i am very flattered by this.

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Daniel Eccles's avatar

I died inside when you said "The Collective". That was what I called my podcast "community".

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Kimberly Phinney's avatar

Hi, Daniel. 👋🏼

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Daniel Eccles's avatar

Oh hey 😂

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

HAHAHAHA there's always a collective.

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Eugene's avatar

Slow 👏

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

🙇

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Samuel Buhler's avatar

So freaking good, dude. A part of me was hoping you just did a blank article, but this was better. Fuel for my heart on this afternoon lunch break. When I read your stuff, my heart just lives in a constant 'YES' state. Blessings man!

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

hahah I was tempted to keep it blank

but my proverbial axe needed G R I N D I N G

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Zoey Renee's avatar

I read this allowed to my husband this evening. Gave us both a good chuckle. Also a good reminder for me to not get caught up in trying to be “viral”, but to just write what I want.

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Shayne's avatar

Uncle Screwtape, is that your voice I hear?

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

Ahahah ;)

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Abhishek Singh's avatar

It was simple and let the reader take a lot to think about. Lovely!

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Jared Brock's avatar

Oof. I can feel your righteous rage/jealousy/bitterness/emotional upheaval/desire to break through the noise and sell books/inner turmoil from here. ;)

I've published books with four of the top five Christian publishers and can tell you that this article is so spot-on that it gave me instant anxiety.

May I add one? Just preach a sermon series written by your church-subsidized research assistant and then get a lowly minion ghostwriter to spin it into a book!

Twenty years ago, Randy Alcorn called out Christendom authors for putting their names on books they didn't write, and it's becoming straight-up prophetic in the age of AI: https://www.epm.org/resources/2002/Jan/01/scandal-evangelical-dishonesty/

Oh, and you missed the top #1 insider's premier ultimate biggliest bestseller secret cheat code hack of all time-- the scam invented by John C. Maxwell (ResultSource) and used by Driscoll, Furtick, Noble, Jeremiah, Schuller, Wilhite, Terkeurst, and countless other top authors in Christendom: Just buy your way onto the New York Times bestseller list by hiring a book-buying service that uses 1,000+ different credit cards to simulate 12-25k book purchases across the nation over launch week.

(Contrast that with a Christian author I know who's a person of Christlike integrity and isn't an influencer/scammer: She's sold over 3 million copies but hasn't hit the NYT even once.)

Resisting the urge to promote my spicy new book that just came out...

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

I’m gonna need to do a part two

What’s the book ???

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Debi Hassler-Never Forsaken's avatar

Who doesn’t love a good post dripping with sarcasm. . . Hey, maybe there is a market for that!

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

Ooooh some untapped niche to exploit ! Haha

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Elliot Nemeth's avatar

The ending absolutely got me 🤣🤣 unironically tho I’ve been plugging your book to as many of my friends as I can, so I’m also participating in the hype train I guess?

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

That’s the real way - word of mouth and love. That’s the way books deserve to grow - from hand to hand.

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Chase Ferruccio's avatar

How do I pay you to make this happen for me?

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

I know a guy.

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Chase Ferruccio's avatar

As long as it’s quick. Gods given me big dreams, ya know. I don’t have time, the algorithm waits for no man.

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Reed Harmon's avatar

The best thing that hit my email inbox today

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

well shucks !

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Kimberly Phinney's avatar

Stingingly good.

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Josh Nadeau's avatar

The real ones get it. You’re a real one.

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Kimberly Phinney's avatar

Thank you for seeing it. 🔥

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