The majority of my relatively recent non-fiction work (2019-2022) explores the nature of modern society in the contemporary West, especially America. It is published in essay form at The Modern Frame. This is a radical departure from the writing I produced when I was younger, which was much more practical and focused on personal growth and development.
My first book, The Catalyst of Confidence (2011), was written while I was teaching leadership classes to high school students; it is largely my own distillation of the self-help genre up to that time. Along with the book, I maintained a blog of the same name from 2011 to 2014.
A follow up project called Life n’ Leadership (2012) was my attempt to put much of the material I had been teaching into the form of a concise self-study program.
My second book, Discipline (2013), is a short practical guide to developing self-discipline in the form of a classical virtue. In many ways Discipline evidences the early stages of a shift in my thinking and my reading: away from popular self-help literature toward the nuances of philosophy and psychology.
Another little volume, Dramography (2017)—which is a small journal to record one’s tasting experiences and assessments of fine spirits—is something of an outlier in this list.