library
Library.
Everything written here, in one place. All of it is free to read in full — the books included. Paying buys the artifact: a PDF, its workbook, something you can keep and mark up. It never buys access.
27 modules across three books and the vocabulary underneath them. One idea runs through all of it: a system has a ground state, everything else is displacement, and displacement costs something to hold.
The books
27 modules · 141 pagesThree textbooks reading mind, perception and design through the one idea. Every lesson is on this site, in full, at no cost. The price is for the book and its workbook.
Anxiety, trauma, fear, flow and therapy read as one problem: how far a mind sits from its ground state, and what it is paying to stay there.
read the 10 lessons free →Attention, prediction, memory, language and insight — the cognitive machinery underneath, treated as ground states and the cost of leaving them.
read the 9 lessons free →Design as displacement management: what an interface costs the person using it, why glitches read as they do, and how to price the work.
read the 8 lessons free →The vocabulary
Ground state, displacement, coherence, the Fiedler value — defined once, in one place, so the books can lean on the same words without redefining them each time.
What this is not. Not a reading list of other people’s work — everything here was written for this site. Where it leans on someone else’s result it says so and cites it.
the instruments, rather than the writing — the field →