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Stop Fixing the Same Problem book cover

Stop Fixing the Same Problem

A practical guide to finding the real failure point, changing the system, and making better outcomes easier.

SystemsFriction auditFree PDF
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Make the Damn Page

A free short book for creators and business owners who keep postponing the website, sales page, portfolio, or offer page they actually need.

Web strategyCopywritingFree PDF
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Personal Systems That Survive Bad Days book cover

Personal Systems That Survive Bad Days

Build systems that assume exhaustion, stress, and low capacity instead of pretending every day starts clean.

SystemsBurnoutBad days
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Dark Recovery

An operational guide to sobriety without surrender: containment, stabilization, exposure, integration, and loosening.

RecoveryOperations21 pages
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Decision Fatigue Is a Design Problem book cover

Decision Fatigue Is a Design Problem

Stop paying cognitive rent on choices that should have been locked, automated, or defaulted already.

Decision fatigueDesignShort guide
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52 Decisions You Never Have to Make Again book cover

52 Decisions You Never Have to Make Again

A fast cheat sheet for removing recurring decisions from mornings, food, work, money, health, and commitments.

DefaultsAutomation52 entries
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Sober by Design

A systems approach to sobriety: reduce reliance on willpower and build architecture that makes relapse less available.

SobrietySystems7 systems
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High Maintenance

A practical guide to understanding THC tolerance, cutting back, or resetting without lectures or moral theater.

THCTolerance20 min read
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