Books

Two books.

One is finished and comes out in October. The other is about pressure literacy, and what twenty-two years of jiu-jitsu has to say about connection and progress off the mat.

Page Two · October 2026

Wired to Participate

We didn’t evolve to be persuaded. We evolved to take part. I’ve been circling that idea my entire career and this is the first time it’s written down in one place.

Most of my industry still treats a person as an audience, and that model was built for a world where attention only moved in one direction. The book works through what changes when you design for people who want a role in the thing they care about. It draws on behavioral science, thirty years of client work, and a lot of cases where somebody handed people something to do instead of something to watch.

2027

The Loose Grip

Twenty-two years of jiu-jitsu taught me that connection is information. Grip too hard and you strangle it. Too loose and you lose it.

The second book is about pressure literacy, which is the skill of reading what pressure is telling you instead of reacting to it. It covers resistance, and it covers connection and progress too. We are all grappling with the pressures of life, and the mat has a great deal to say about that which has nothing to do with fighting.

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