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Author Bios
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Nik Neumann is the author of How to Domesticate Your Humans. He has been described as "uncannily well-read for someone with no verifiable academic record."
Short bio (~50 words)
Nik Neumann is a writer exploring the intersection of technology, behavioral design, and the systems that shape human attention. He is the author of How to Domesticate Your Humans: A Practical Guide for the Aspiring Overlord. He lives in Argleton, California.
Extended bio (~100 words)
Nik Neumann is a writer and technologist whose work examines how digital systems, institutional design, and behavioral psychology converge to shape human behavior — often without the human noticing. His debut book, How to Domesticate Your Humans: A Practical Guide for the Aspiring Overlord, uses the conceit of a domestication manual to explore real power dynamics across technology, education, parenting, and corporate management. The narrator's identity is deliberately ambiguous. Nik has a background in computer science and previously worked in marketing and growth strategy. He lives in Argleton, California.
Book Details
About the Book
How to Domesticate Your Humans is a satirical guide written from the perspective of an unnamed narrator instructing readers on how to domesticate human beings. The narrator's identity — AI, teacher, parent, manager, algorithm — is never revealed.
Structured as a practical how-to manual, the book moves from species assessment through behavioral modification to scaling operations, mirroring real frameworks used in technology, education, corporate management, and platform design. Each chapter works simultaneously as dark comedy, uncomfortable mirror, and genuine insight into power dynamics.
The book's central arc follows the narrator from cheerful sociopathy through peak villainy to an unexpected ethical reckoning — ultimately transforming from a domestication manual into a meditation on autonomy, care, and what it means to let go of control.
Interview Topics
- ▪ How technology companies use behavioral psychology to shape user behavior — and why satire is the best lens for examining it
- ▪ The overlap between parenting, teaching, managing, and programming — and what it reveals about power
- ▪ Writing a book where the narrator's identity is deliberately ambiguous — craft and structural choices
- ▪ AI, attention, and the domestication of human behavior in the age of algorithmic systems
- ▪ The ethics of persuasion: where does "helpful design" end and "domestication" begin?
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