Article · August 27, 2026
The AC/DC Method: Beginner
Eight weeks of rhythm guitar, no solos. Power chords, the downstroke, and the spaces between hits: the part Malcolm played.
Articles
Essays and field notes by topic.
One article library, organized by topic rather than separate blogs.
Article · August 26, 2026
The Gilmour Method: Beginner
Eight weeks inside minor pentatonic box 1. Three anchor notes, accurate bends, controlled vibrato, and the silence between phrases.
Recovery · July 04, 2026
Seeing Is Not Stopping
Fluency in the pattern was supposed to change things. It did not. The gap between knowing and stopping does not live in the other party; it lives in the traffic: explanation, reaction, research, hope, all arriving on schedule. The message still sitting in drafts is written for audiences who cannot deliver the verdict. The work turns from decoding them to auditing what leaves you, stripping the labels off, and closing the valves.
Systems · June 15, 2026
The Pattern, Not the Diagnosis
You cannot diagnose someone whose whole skill is looking one way in public and another at home, least of all when the relationship has worn down your read on reality. So stop diagnosing them. Read your own week instead: what you have stopped doing, what your apologies have become, whether repair ever costs them. The pattern is accessible where the label is not.
Men · June 01, 2026
The Man Who Wrote the Book
I wrote a book about how men hold themselves together while running on empty. This morning I could not have held a paragraph of it in my head. That is the part nobody warns you about. Writing the map is not walking the ground. You can diagram the failure mode in clean prose and still wake inside it. You do not turn into someone else. You dig down to the parts of yourself that were there before the exhaustion, the fear, the distraction, the years of noise layered on top. The work is closer to excavation than manufacture. There is just this one. Walking. Tired. Still here.