The reading room

Things to think with.

Essays and interactive instruments from the practice. Free, and yours to keep.

Eleven essays on the shelf, six instruments in the store, and one new essay you can do. Make yourself at home.

Browse the shelfTry an instrument
Members Open your compartment

New · an essay with a practiceYour mind has a diet.Five minutes to read, two to audit what entered your head this week, and a seven-day Modernity Detox. Read it

The shelf

Take one down from the shelf.

Eleven essays from the practice, none longer than a cup of tea. Take down whichever spine catches your eye.

Eleven volumes · no late fees

  1. 01Why Philosophy Matters More Than Ever8 min We don’t have an information problem. We have a judgement problem.
  2. 02Who Are You When They Stop Introducing You By What You Did?7 min Retirement from elite sport as the start of a philosophical career.
  3. 03Are You Building an Energetic Frog or a Fat F***ing Tadpole?6 min Why size alone isn’t transformation.
  4. 04The Hidden Difference Between a Machine and a Living System7 min Why intelligent organisations keep creating stupid outcomes.
  5. 05You Can’t Think Beyond the Energy Your Organism Can Supply8 min Why the energy to perceive is so crucial.
  6. 06You Aren’t One Colour6 min Why the most mature minds don’t think in just one way.
  7. 07What Kind of Self Are You Making?8 min Authenticity as becoming, rather than finding.
  8. 08Why You Need to Spend More Time in Graveyards7 min A Heideggerian footnote to a story about death admin.
  9. 09The Jazz Organisation6 min What Mae-Wan Ho understood about coherence.
  10. 10When You Talk Like Heraclitus But Walk Like Parmenides7 min The hidden contradiction in how we know the world.
  11. 11Why We Refuse to Run Syntropise Like a Business5 min Building a practice around the work, not the customer.

Tap a spine to take it down. Prefer a plain list? Open the drawer.

The instrument store

Try one on for size.

Six interactive instruments. Four look at how you think, one looks at your organisation, and one tells you whether any of this would suit you.

Wondering whether this way of working would suit you? Start with the tape measure.

Instrumentsin working order

  1. 01Thinking FitBefore you begin Seven minutes to see whether this way of working would suit you.
  2. 02The Ground BeneathFor individuals Find the assumptions beneath how you see, know, value and act.
  3. 03The Spiral MirrorFor individuals The values you admire, the ones you live, and the ones that take over under pressure.
  4. 04The Self You Are MakingFor individuals A mirror for how you choose, conform, hide and become.
  5. 05The Energy to PerceiveFor individuals What your organism currently has available for thought and choice.
  6. 06The Syntropy ScanFor organisations Where your organisation creates coherence, and where it leaks energy.

Before you go

Rather talk it through?

Reading is a good start. Conversation goes further.

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