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The channel on YouTube ↗Why Willpower Isn't the Problem (The Dopamine Baseline)
The 24-Hour Dopamine Reset
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Aug 28 · ExplainerWhy Deep Work Feels Like Torture (Tonic vs Phasic Dopamine)
Aug 27 · Cinematic breakdownThe K-Shaped AI Divide: Consumers vs. System Architects
Aug 21 · ExplainerThe AI Economy: Why Linear Hard Work Hits a Hard Ceiling
Sep 7 · Audio briefingWhy Focus Breaks Down (The Full Dopamine Briefing)
Aug 28 · ExplainerWhy Deep Work Feels Like Torture (Tonic vs Phasic Dopamine)Aug 27 · Cinematic breakdownThe K-Shaped AI Divide: Consumers vs. System ArchitectsAug 21 · ExplainerThe AI Economy: Why Linear Hard Work Hits a Hard CeilingSep 7 · Audio briefingWhy Focus Breaks Down (The Full Dopamine Briefing)The Dossiers
The star map →The Industrial Trap: Asset Architecture Against the Linear WageFord popularised the five-day week in 1926; Congress codified 40 hours by 1940. What follows from that is arithmetic, and the arithmetic has a ceiling in it.9 min readLIVEBuy, Borrow, Die: Three Ordinary Tax Rules, CompoundedNothing in this framework is exotic. It is three separate, long-standing provisions of ordinary tax law, used in sequence, and the sequence is where the leverage is.11 min readLIVEThe Quiet Unbundling: How AI Is Taking Roles ApartA viral figure puts 40% of white-collar jobs gone inside 36 months. The sourced estimates describe something slower, and considerably stranger.10 min readLIVEThe $57,000 Average: What Cheap AI Actually ChangedTwenty-nine point eight million one-person businesses, and $1.7 trillion between them. Divide one by the other and the tooling revolution looks different.12 min readLIVEBeyond Willpower: What the Dopamine Evidence Actually SupportsThree findings here are solid research. The 24-hour reset built on top of them is a heuristic, not a clinical protocol, and this page keeps the two apart.9 min readLIVEEvery topic on the star map: published, scheduled and planned
