Max Millien
He is the author of the redemptive memoir Traffic Engineer and the founder of Puretome, a platform designed to help others tell their most important stories.
Author. Founder. Engineer of Chaos.
The Memoir
For Max Millien, everything was a problem to be solved. A restless mind. A gnawing hunger for
control and escape. When he discovered a world of chemical love, he thought he'd found his
next project to perfect. What began as self-medication spiraled into a full-blown criminal enterprise, engineered with ruthless logic. But code can't fix betrayal, and no plan survives human chaos.Traffic Engineer is a harrowing memoir of collapse, incarceration, and resurrection–a portrait of
a man who thought he could hack life, only to discover the most complex system he’d ever
rebuild was himself.
The Soundtrack
More than just a soundtrack, this is the memoir's emotional DNA translated into sound. Every track breathes life into the story's deepest moments, transforming memory into melody and poetry.
The Synergy
The memoir and album are two halves of the same truth, architected to work in tandem. The book is the Director's Cut: the complete, unflinching narrative from collapse to redemption, laid out in unflinching prose. The album is the emotional schematic, a collection of cinematic scenes that gives voice to the story's raw core.This isn't just a soundtrack. Each track is a deep dive into a pivotal moment, engineered to stand alone while expanding the book's themes. Where a chapter might capture "The Reckoning" in pages, the album transforms it into a visceral, multi-song exploration of chaos. Some moments that are a single paragraph in the memoir become the entire focus of a three-minute song, allowing the music to explore feelings that prose can only describe.
The book is what happened. The music is what it felt like. One is the narrative; the other is the nerve.