PPredictable Thoughts
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A book on self-knowledge · Coming 2026

Why we keep having the same thoughts.

None of it is random — most of our thoughts run as a sequence. This book shows you the patterns underneath, so you can nudge the loop toward novelty.

01 / Self-Enquiry Audit

Run the audit before you commit

Five minutes, five thoughts. A short diagnostic that surfaces the loops running your life right now. The audit will map their gravity, role, and the cycle they're stuck in — giving you a snapshot to decide if the book is for you.

02 / The ideas underneath

Non-duality teachers got the mind right. Translated for the desk.

Contemplative traditions built a vocabulary for monks. This book turns their observations into a system for reclaiming attention, focus, and flow under load. Same insights. Different operating manual.

Principle 01.LOC · Locality of Thought

Where you think it matters more than what you think

Your thoughts are loaded by where you sit.

Memory and emotion are uploaded by your physical environment. The "sick" feeling at one train station, the narrow-mindedness of a particular desk, the sudden lift of a borrowed jacket — these aren't moods. They're loads from local storage. This can be manipulated in office or remote desk layout.

Principle 02.ARG · Arguments are staged

An argument is a staged act of memory, not a discussion

Build-upPeakDecayReplay?

An argument is a wave that has to crest before it ends.

Repetition in a fight is a control urge — the conversation is replaying memory, not exchanging information. The dialogue keeps running on its own fumes until the cycle completes. Even when amicably concluded, there are still lingering feelings that might arise again. Once you can see the cycle, you stop feeding it.

Principle 03.FEV · Frequency-EV

The thought you keep rerunning doesn't pay off

Every loop quietly subtracts from your focus.

Borrowed from poker game theory: every internal monologue carries an expected value, lowering or raising our energy frequency. Frequency +EV — staying equanimous through gain and loss. F-EV — getting dragged by every external swing and carrying repetitive loops that drain mental storage. The switch is trainable.

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03 / The Object

The system, written down

Excerpt

Senses-Needs-Correlation

A well-arranged dish triggers appetite even when you weren't hungry — the eye-sense manufacturing a need. It happens constantly, mostly unnoticed: needs and senses are the two sources of thought we almost never catch in the act. Memory and concepts fuel the deeper, slower, fewer thoughts; needs and senses fuel the fast, shallow ones that flood in all day.

The link maps onto two dimensions:

Needs ≈ Space. A need either is, or implies, a change in location — going to the kitchen, going out, going to bed.

Senses ≈ Time. A sense either is, or implies, a moment — this sight, this sound, right now.

And they trigger each other. A change of place floods you with impressions, and impressions become thoughts. An object in your sight hooks into a memory, a desire, or — more rarely — into the present moment itself.

The first chapter, free. Synchronicities & Individuation follow.
04 / Author

Not the obvious path

Engineering notes from inside my own head.

I came to this material the long way around — as a poker player learning to read my own tilt, as a hyper-sensitive person, a meditator, a non-dualist, seeking a true account of the mind and reality. The book started as student notes to myself.

I'm a synthesist and analyst. Dharma, Hawkins, Tolle, game theory, neuroscience — are the parts the book wires into a single circuit. The concepts that emerged in the process — Frequency-EV, Thought Gravity, Sync-Delay, Story Escalation let the parts talk to each other.

"Most of the work is just learning to see the mechanism before you're inside it."
05 / Course · preview

Enroll in the digital version.

A separate space for full diagnostics, persistent history, and how to deal with your emotions by yourself and with your cohort.

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Live class 1/wk with me
Modules 6
Effort ~3 hrs/wk
  • One live class a week — with me, walking through that week's audit results in the open.
  • Six modules between sessions — video lessons, exercises, audit checkpoints.
  • Workspace included — audit dashboard, argument defuse, full audit history.
Schedule
Wk 1Audit
Wk 2Architecture
Wk 3Sequences
Wk 4Frequency
Wk 5Arguments
Wk 6Integration
in development · opens alongside chapter two