Thinking
What's shaping the work
Frameworks, reading, random thoughts, and longer form. As it shows up, this page grows.
Frameworks
The concepts underneath the projects. Click any to read the full breakdown.
Reading list
Books that shaped the synthesis. Combined with lived experience, not used as a substitute for it.
Supernormal
Dean RadinWhat measurable psi research actually says when you read the data instead of the headlines.
Journeys Out of the Body
Robert MonroeWhat you can actually do once the witness state stabilizes. First-person, not theory.
The Holographic Universe
Michael TalbotWhy the woo and the physics keep landing on the same answer from opposite directions.
The Power of Now
Eckhart TolleWhat you are, before identity. The cleanest direct pointer in print.
The Book
Alan WattsOn the taboo against knowing who you are. The same pointer Tolle uses, in a different idiom.
Subliminal
Leonard MlodinowHow much of what you call your decisions never reach the conscious mind.
Mind Magic
James R. DotySalience, attention, and how perception gets shaped before you know it has been.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel KahnemanTwo systems, one brain. The basis for understanding why instructions don't change behavior.
Flow
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiThe mechanics of optimal state. The basis for everything Transcend points at.
Creativity
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiThe longitudinal habits of people who keep producing real work over a lifetime.
Big Magic
Elizabeth GilbertOn fear, ideas, and the relationship to making things. Permission without sentiment.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert CialdiniSix principles that explain why most of what works on you was never your decision.
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel RuizFour short rules. Don't take it personally is the load-bearing one.
The Power of Habit
Charles DuhiggCue, routine, reward. Once you see the loop, the loop becomes workable.
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake KogaAdlerian psychology in dialogue form. Why approval is a cage and how to walk out.
The Courage to Be Happy
Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake KogaThe deeper sequel. What it actually means to live unencumbered by the room's verdict.
Contagious
Jonah BergerWhy things spread. STEPPS framework. Pairs with the network topology framework.
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan HolidayThe Stoic three-part frame. Perception, action, will. The obstacle is the path.
Discipline is Destiny
Ryan HolidaySelf-mastery as the Stoic prerequisite. What you can govern in yourself defines what you can do.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen CoveyCircle of Influence vs. Circle of Concern. The original responsibility frame.
Antifragile
Nassim TalebHow systems get stronger from disorder. The opposite of fragile isn't sturdy. It's antifragile.
Skin in the Game
Nassim TalebAsymmetry, accountability, and why advice from people with no exposure is mostly noise.
Thinking in Bets
Annie DukeSeparate the quality of a decision from the quality of the outcome. Most people can't.
Becoming Supernatural
Joe DispenzaState, identity, behavior. The applied protocol side of the synthesis.
