Davos Couldn’t Write
I had a project manager on my team — I'll call him Davos — who was one of the best that ever worked for me. He could motivate a burned-out team and walk a hostile stakeholder back from the ledge. He could not write to save his life. Six months later, we were celebrating his promotion to Program Manager.
Filed to Points
Why the scariest sentence is the one that doesn't explain itself — a subway story, an incident report, and the found-document trick I lean on in The Revenant Strain.
Three Influences on The Revenant Strain
Thirty+ years in corporate IT taught me that nobody builds anything from scratch — you look at what worked and steal the parts that fit. The Revenant Strain came out of an oral history, a monster movie, and a midlife-crisis comedy.
Only one of them has a zombie in it.
The Misogi I Didn't Know I Was Doing
A Shinto ritual, a personal trainer, and forty years of a career built to avoid failure — on what it means to finally do something with a real chance of not working.