Books

Waking the Driver

Manuscript in progress

You've driven home a thousand times and not remembered the drive. The small version of that is funny. The large version is the fear this book takes seriously: that not remembering the drive can quietly become not remembering the years. This is a book about the automatic you — the ancient, magnificent prediction machine that runs your life competently and invisibly unless you learn to catch it running. No mysticism, no retreats, nothing you can't verify in your own chest: how the machine works, where its programming came from, why seeing it clearly was never enough to change it, and the unglamorous mechanism that actually rewires it.

Respected and Unwanted

Manuscript in progress

Men don't feel less. What differs is what gets out — and what gets held in isn't random. This is a book about the code men learn: the price list of what a man may show, what showing it costs him, and how two decent people end up lonely in the same house. It follows the machinery from the kitchen table where it's installed to the statistics where it ends, and then does the only thing worth doing with a rule you never chose: shows you how to stop obeying it.

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