TREY SCHMITT · INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST, AUTHOR & RESEARCHER
Stories with depth. Questions that matter.
Explanatory journalism, analysis and fiction exploring business, technology, culture, identity and power. Based in Los Angeles, Trey Schmitt connects complex systems with their human consequences.
FEATURED BOOKS
Two women. Two forms of exile. Two unforgettable journeys.
Lyra Wilde
The Celestial Runaway
A free-spirited artist, a vanished blues-rock star, and a road that asks whether love can survive without becoming a cage.
Lilith
The First Exile
Before history named her monster, Lilith chose herself—and carried the price of that choice through empires, scriptures, bloodlines, and memory.
Writing beyond the bookshelf
Read Trey’s essays and investigations on culture, economics, technology, power, recovery, media, and the systems shaping modern life.
POLITICAL SATIRE FROM TREY SCHMITT
Meet Slappy Monkey
A loud, absurd, unapologetic comic confrontation with power, hypocrisy, propaganda, and the daily theater of American politics.
Latest from Trey
- The Next Data-Center Deal Could Be a Bitcoin FarmWhen can a Bitcoin farm become a data center? Examine usable power, conversion costs, customer demand and the risks of buying an existing site.
- Modern Mercantilism, AI Infrastructure, and The Rebuild CenturyAn opinion essay on how chips, electricity, water, minerals and national industrial policy could shape the next phase of AI infrastructure.
- What Is Missing From the Current Credit System?An opinion on credit scoring, recovery, reputation, data ownership and the challenge of recognizing human potential alongside financial risk.