First Round
How to build adult friendships from scratch at fifty.
First Round is a field guide and journal for the part nobody teaches: how you actually build adult male friendships at 45 or 50. Dormant contacts first, conversion second, strangers last, with the awkwardness accounted for rather than pretended away.
The man who has worked out what happened and wants to know what to do on a Tuesday. It is slow, it is humbling, and roughly three attempts in four go nowhere. That is the honest version.
- 01First Round (field guide)The method in six chapters, in the order that works rather than the order men try.
- 02The Round Book (journal)Where the work goes, so it is not carried in your head. No streaks and nothing to fall behind on.
The Empty Chair
The Empty Chair is an ebook and audit workbook about the friendship drought that arrives without anything breaking. It explains how a man with a partner, a job and a full calendar ends up with nobody he would actually ring, and gives him a way to count what he has left.
The practical half. What to send, when to send it, how to turn someone you know into someone you call, and what the attempts that go nowhere are worth.
The Complete Circle
US$249/yr for every product on this site, Standing Order included. It renews annually until you stop it, and it is not a lifetime purchase.