I’m Brian Miller.

For eleven years, I worked the AA program. I kept going back to the folding chairs in the fluorescent-lit basement because I had been told that was the only door. It never fully took, and for a long time I believed that meant something was wrong with me.

It didn’t. The method was the wrong tool for how I’m built. I stopped drinking on May 16, 2022, not through a dramatic rock bottom, but quietly, once I finally understood what I was actually dealing with. That is the story I tell in The View from a Windowless Basement.

What I care about now is simple. There is no single road to sobriety. There is a menu. Most people who struggle with the standard approach are not failing. They just have not found the path that fits them yet. Everything I build, the book, the Recovery Menu, the daily Reset, and my newsletter None For Me, exists to help people find that path sooner than I did.

It is the work I care about most. I write about it, I speak about it to audiences who are tired of being told there is only one way, and I am building a place where people can find the approach that actually fits them. If you would like me to speak to your group, I would love to hear from you.

I have spent my career as a designer and a founder. I have worked as a creative director, co-founded a digital agency, and written for Simon & Schuster, including Above the Fold: Understanding the Principles of Successful Web Site Design, now in its second edition. I founded Seir Hill, a premium non-alcoholic spirits brand later acquired by Better Rhodes, where I am now a partner.

I am a husband and a father of two daughters. I write without slogans, scripts, or performative optimism, because that is what I needed and could not find.