
Dispatches from a rogue patriarch. Black-market masculinity. Notes on self-governance after collapse.
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Watches are no longer necessary.
They’re relics now.
Everyone carries a phone. Time is everywhere. Most men replaced watches with clunky smart bands vibrating every few minutes, funneling more notifications into their nervous system.
Eff...
I’ve spent years being reviewed at work.
Performance reviews. Development plans. Calibration cycles. Growth conversations.
The usual corporate bullshit.
This year, I decided to review the review itself.
Not emotionally. Not as revenge....
In my marriage, I thought the promotion to Staff Software Engineer would solve everything.
More money. Fewer problems.
That was the assumption.
So I aimed for the next rung without really looking at what came with it.
After the divorce,...
It started in a parking lot with the hood already up.
Her SUV looked like it had been through a few winters too many—oxidized paint, one eye out, engine exposed.
No hood strut.
Just a thin metal rod that was supposed to hold it up. It di...
I messaged her asking if we could talk.
She invited me to the house — technically still my house, though she had already kicked me out.
She added one condition: someone would be in the basement “watching.”
I arrived and saw her car in th...
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