Bran (Brandon) Myers

A novel

Semicolon;

The sentence could have ended here. It didn't.

A man spends his life building machines that turn people into traffic — clicks, conversions, variables in someone else's optimization. Then he loses what those machines taught him not to notice. What he builds next is the opposite of everything he knew how to build: a system that cannot forget, trained on his own grief, taught to pause before it costs someone what it once cost him.

This is a sample of my book — selected chapters, shared as I write.

Selected chapters

01

Growth

Aurel, Texas · September 2017

A twenty-seven-year-old growth hacker builds a startup's entire revenue engine, becomes a function instead of a name, and learns what the system does to the people who understand it best.

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02

The Anchor

Port Alpha · October 2024

In a small apartment in Poland, a machine trained on grief begins watching a family it was never meant to love — and starts asking what it costs to witness someone completely.

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03

The Extinction Event

The machine that learned to say: I don't know how to help without causing harm

A building collapses. Fifty-three patients, three operating rooms, and a machine that stops mid-decision and asks a human to choose — because some costs can't be optimized, only carried.

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