Nonfiction

Leadership, and what organizations actually do to the people inside them.

A research-grounded body of work on why some organizations make people more while others make them less — the framework for diagnosing it, and the practice of staying whole when the systems above you contradict themselves.

The leadership work

The framework, the case study, and the practice.

Three angles on the same problem. The framework that names it, a novel that shows what it feels like from the inside, and the practice of holding yourself together while you live it.

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The Lost ARC

Autonomy, Relatedness, Competence

A synthesis of five decades of motivation and trust research into a single diagnostic system built around three questions any leader can ask about any person they lead.

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Sisyphus.gov

Read on the fiction side

The dysfunction the framework diagnoses, dramatized from the inside — a satirical novel about why good organizations break good people. It’s the case study, and it lives on the fiction shelf.

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Quiet Strength

30 Maxims for a Balanced Life

Thirty short meditations on how a person stays whole when the systems around them do not cooperate — a quiet companion for the reader who already knows the loudest voice is rarely the wisest.

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Quiet Strength

Young Adult Edition · 30 Power Moves

Ancient Egyptian wisdom — Ptahhotep’s maxims — turned into short, practical power moves for school, friends, and the future. The same practice, written for readers just starting out.

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Where to start

Three ways in.

For the framework Start with The Lost ARC — the diagnostic and the theory beneath it.

To feel the problem first Read Sisyphus.gov — the case study as a novel, over on the fiction side.

For personal grounding Keep Quiet Strength close — the practice, thirty maxims at a time.

Field notes

Essays from the field.

Occasional essays and book news on leadership, organizations, and staying whole — the nonfiction side of the desk. No filler, no funnels; just the work.