Resources
Practical tools, daily protocols, and essential reading for upgrading your operating system.
The Attention Audit
A 7-day protocol for mapping exactly where your cognitive bandwidth goes — and reclaiming it. Track every notification, every scroll, every context switch. The data will shock you.
Explore →The Satisficer Protocol
A decision-making framework for defining 'enough' before you start searching. Eliminates analysis paralysis and the grass-is-greener syndrome.
Explore →The Digital Sabbath
A weekly practice of intentional disconnection. Not a detox — a recalibration. 24 hours of analog living to reset your baseline.
The Consciousness Scale
Map your organization's operating system from survival mode to generative leadership. Based on 25 years of enterprise advisory.
Explore →Small, consistent actions that compound into fundamental shifts. These are not suggestions — they are the operating system.
Morning Protocol
- +No screens for the first 60 minutes
- +Journaling: 3 pages, stream of consciousness
- +Movement: 20 minutes minimum, no podcasts
- +Intention setting: one word for the day
Work Protocol
- +Time-boxing: 90-minute deep work blocks
- +Single-tasking: one tab, one task, one outcome
- +Communication windows: check email/messages 3x daily
- +Decision journaling: record the criteria, not just the choice
Evening Protocol
- +Digital sunset: screens off 90 minutes before sleep
- +Gratitude practice: 3 specific moments from today
- +Tomorrow's MIT: identify the Most Important Thing
- +Reading: 30 minutes minimum, physical books preferred
The books that shaped this thinking. Not a comprehensive list — a curated one. Each title earned its place.
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal
The science of altered states and peak performance — the neurochemistry behind flow, mindfulness, psychedelics, and technology.
The Paradox of Choice
Barry Schwartz
The foundational text on Maximizers vs. Satisficers. Essential reading for understanding why more options make us less happy.
Recapture the Rapture
Jamie Wheal
A blueprint for meaning-making in a post-institutional world. Addresses the collapse of traditional meaning structures.
The Singularity Is Nearer
Ray Kurzweil
The updated case for exponential technology and its implications for human consciousness and capability.
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
The mainstream introduction to psychedelic science and its potential for treating depression, addiction, and existential distress.
Finite and Infinite Games
James P. Carse
The philosophical foundation for understanding the difference between playing to win and playing to keep playing.
The Master and His Emissary
Iain McGilchrist
A groundbreaking exploration of how the divided brain shapes our world — and why the left hemisphere's dominance is destroying it.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
The story of how Homo sapiens conquered the world through shared fictions — and what happens when those fictions stop serving us.