The Downswing — an oil painting of a man alone in a dark room, lit by the cold glow of a screen

A Beyond Range Book

The Downswing

Variance, and the Verdict You Can’t Yet Reach.

The graph is red and you want the verdict: good, or not good. This book is about why that verdict hasn’t come, why it may never come on any timeline your life takes place on — and what the players who survive do instead of waiting for it.

You’re responsible for what you could reasonably know — not for what was true. The whole book is an argument for that one sentence, written for the night you need it.

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Contents

An introduction, nine chapters, and a coda — ~36,500 words, about a two-and-a-half-hour read. The argument is cumulative; read it in order.