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About the Author
Short bio
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
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.
One-liner
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."
About the Book
| Title | How to Domesticate Your Humans |
| Subtitle | A Practical Guide for the Aspiring Overlord |
| Author | Nik Neumann |
| Length | ~70,000 words · 16 chapters + appendices |
| Genre | Satirical nonfiction / Social commentary |
| Read online | domesticatebook.com |
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?
Comparable Works
Readers and reviewers have drawn comparisons to:
- Machiavelli's The Prince — power dynamics rendered as practical instruction
- Nir Eyal's Hooked — the engagement playbook, here satirized from the inside
- Jon Ronson — darkly comic investigation of systems and the people caught in them
- Bo Burnham's Inside — meta-aware performance that uses its own medium as subject
- Borges — recursive structures, unreliable narration, and the feeling of being watched by the text
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