Get the notes / Inspired by The Art of War

Useful ideas, minus the inspirational wallpaper.

Short notes translating The Art of War and future source material into decisions, scripts, and honest experiments.

What arrives

  • One idea worth keeping
  • The ordinary-life tension beneath it
  • A question or script to try
  • A small experiment with room for reality

What does not

  • Manufactured urgency
  • Optimization as a moral obligation
  • Advice pretending you have unlimited support
  • A daily email because everyone has suffered enough

Start now

Read the terrain, clarify the real objective, and choose the lowest-cost move that can work.

Before the next note arrives, answer this: What is the lowest-cost useful move?

Use the Strategic Friction Map