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Stop Feeding the System
A field guide for recognising and recovering from narcissistic abuse — the system that feeds on reaction, explanation, rescue, and self-doubt.
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Stop Feeding the System
A field guide for recognising and recovering from narcissistic abuse. For the reader who already knows something is wrong and needs to see the system clearly.
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For the capable man who built the life and knows achievement was never the answer. Receipts over intentions.
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A post-human intelligence audits the archive of humanity from a station at the bottom of the Pacific.
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The Half of Manifesting That Works
Manifesting is half right. Expectation does not transmit a request to the universe. It works by changing attention, the body's response, and persistence, which shape the actions that produce a result. The naive version fails because the nervous system reads receipts, not affirmations, and because picturing the win drains the drive to chase it. The working half is concrete: name the outcome and the real obstacle, pick the one move that brings money or progress in, shrink it to a daily rep, bolt it to a fixed trigger, and count the reps you control.
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The Quiet Crisis of Successful Men
A man can build an enviable life and slowly go absent from inside it, not through collapse but through competent management. The traits that built the life become the ones used to avoid living it. The correction is not more advice or self-criticism but re-entry: a named sentence, scheduled friendship, conversations one layer deeper, and purpose measured by contact rather than output.
Men
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.
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Built software used by writers worldwide, including Scrivener and Scapple for Windows, and now works through Lumen & Lever on institutional systems.
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Books and articles about the systems people find themselves inside, at personal and institutional scale.
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A continuing art practice in painting and mixed media, available through the quieter gallery branch.
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