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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.

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Reading list

Books that shaped the synthesis. Combined with lived experience, not used as a substitute for it.

Supernormal

Dean Radin

What measurable psi research actually says when you read the data instead of the headlines.

Journeys Out of the Body

Robert Monroe

What you can actually do once the witness state stabilizes. First-person, not theory.

The Holographic Universe

Michael Talbot

Why the woo and the physics keep landing on the same answer from opposite directions.

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

What you are, before identity. The cleanest direct pointer in print.

The Book

Alan Watts

On the taboo against knowing who you are. The same pointer Tolle uses, in a different idiom.

Subliminal

Leonard Mlodinow

How much of what you call your decisions never reach the conscious mind.

Mind Magic

James R. Doty

Salience, attention, and how perception gets shaped before you know it has been.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Two systems, one brain. The basis for understanding why instructions don't change behavior.

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The mechanics of optimal state. The basis for everything Transcend points at.

Creativity

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The longitudinal habits of people who keep producing real work over a lifetime.

Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert

On fear, ideas, and the relationship to making things. Permission without sentiment.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert Cialdini

Six principles that explain why most of what works on you was never your decision.

The Four Agreements

Don Miguel Ruiz

Four short rules. Don't take it personally is the load-bearing one.

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

Cue, routine, reward. Once you see the loop, the loop becomes workable.

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

Adlerian psychology in dialogue form. Why approval is a cage and how to walk out.

The Courage to Be Happy

Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

The deeper sequel. What it actually means to live unencumbered by the room's verdict.

Contagious

Jonah Berger

Why things spread. STEPPS framework. Pairs with the network topology framework.

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

The Stoic three-part frame. Perception, action, will. The obstacle is the path.

Discipline is Destiny

Ryan Holiday

Self-mastery as the Stoic prerequisite. What you can govern in yourself defines what you can do.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

Circle of Influence vs. Circle of Concern. The original responsibility frame.

Antifragile

Nassim Taleb

How systems get stronger from disorder. The opposite of fragile isn't sturdy. It's antifragile.

Skin in the Game

Nassim Taleb

Asymmetry, accountability, and why advice from people with no exposure is mostly noise.

Thinking in Bets

Annie Duke

Separate the quality of a decision from the quality of the outcome. Most people can't.

Becoming Supernatural

Joe Dispenza

State, identity, behavior. The applied protocol side of the synthesis.

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