// BOOK ONE
Wired Different
The story of what happens when the wrong brain finally gets pointed somewhere worth going.
What this book is really about.
It's early 2009. Kevin Mastriano is twenty years old, living in a sober house in Westerly, Rhode Island, and working at a Dairy Queen — not long after walking into detox on New Year's Day.
Four and a half years of drug addiction — opiates, cocaine, whatever was available — had reduced everything he owned to a duffel bag. He had a 1.6 GPA. He'd never taken the SATs. He had no degree, no plan, and no idea what came next.
What he had was a brain that couldn't stop solving problems. The same brain that had found ways around every no he'd heard growing up in North Haven. The same brain that had hyperfocused on building a supply chain at fourteen, constructed a Lego battleship from scratch at eight, and sat down at an empty desk at work — without permission — and kept going until they gave him the title.
Wired Differentis the story of what that brain can do when it finally gets pointed somewhere worth going. It's a memoir that moves between childhood, addiction, recovery, and entrepreneurship — and arrives at a $1.3 million business built by someone who was never supposed to build anything at all.
This is not a book about having it figured out. It's a book about showing up anyway.
// ADHD & Identity
What it feels like to grow up wired different — and what the diagnosis finally explained.
// Recovery & Resilience
The duffel bag. The detox. The Dairy Queen. What happens on the other side of losing everything.
// Building Something Real
From empty desk to $1.3M business. What entrepreneurship actually looks like without credentials.
“You don't need the right credentials. You don't need the right background. You don't need a plan or a pedigree or anyone's permission. You just need to find the desk. And sit down.”
Who this book is for.
The kid sitting in the back of the classroom, getting okay grades on purpose so nobody calls on him.
The person who has heard no so many times it started to feel like a verdict.
The addict who thinks the duffel bag is the end of the story.
Anyone who doesn't feel like they can accomplish something big. Kevin didn't think he could either.
He just kept showing up.
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