Short readings on the things that actually get in the
way — read aloud, in a real voice, by the person who chose the
books.
The open edition — free, with no account and no
AI. Nothing you write leaves your phone.
The books behind the readings.
Every book here supplies at least one reading, and grows thicker
with each one after. The rest are on order.
Arrange by
Click a book to pull it off the shelf ·
click it again to put it back
Color is the section it belongs to.
Thickness is how much of the book the readings cover, not how long
it is. A gilt edge is one of my own introductions. An
outline is a book on order.
Most self-help asks you to read a book you will not finish. This is
built the other way round: a few minutes at a time, spoken,
each reading drawn from a book worth reading, with the source named so you
can go to it yourself if something lands.
It exists because there is a lot of good thinking on how to live, and
almost none of it reaches the person who needs it on a Tuesday evening.
What it covers
Plus, eventually, the part the name promises: how attention
gets engineered, and what to do about it.
The same shelf as a plain list
Start here
0.0 Welcome — my introduction, 1 min
Hope
1.0 Hope — my introduction, 1 min
Hope Rising, Casey Gwinn and Chan Hellman — 1.1 Hope is a skill
7.0 The road less traveled — my introduction, 1 min
The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck — 7.1 Life is difficult; 7.0 The road less traveled (my introduction)
It is in private testing. A handful
of people are going through it and telling me what is missing, what is
too long, and what sounds like a lecture. That is exactly the stage where
that feedback is worth the most, so it is not open to everyone yet.
See how it finds your way
A sample journey through the course, seen in
the mixer: seven channels, one for each part of the
course, for choosing what to cover next.
Four editions, one course
The same readings, set up four ways. This one comes first.
unhackyourmind.org — the open edition. You are here.
.ai — the assisted edition: ask questions about a reading and the books behind it. Later.
.online — the course edition: in order, one step at a time. Later.
.us — the together edition: work through it with the people close to you. Later.