In November 2004, over pizza in Knoxville, a twenty-something made a plan. Twenty years later, he kept it — and walked out of a nineteen-year career with no idea who that would leave.

Damo Balagi writes about reinvention from inside it — the fog before it clears, not the tidy view from after. Two Cups: The Fog Is the Canvas is the story of the morning he handed the title back, and the year that followed.

More books are coming — on the same questions, from the same uncertain ground. He lives in Cary, North Carolina with his wife Aks and son Yugan, and still can't see the summit. That's the point.