Patterns of Deep Response

Category: volume1

  • v1.01.03 Ch1 – Eat Well For Less

    There are two kinds of people in the world. People who enjoy cooking, and everybody else. This section is mostly written for everybody else. I’m guessing people who enjoy cooking won’t find the project of eating well for less very difficult. The aim in this chapter is to spin up a system whereby you are…

  • v1.01.02 Ch1 – Build a Model of Your Financial Resources

    In this section we build a spreadsheet to track the inflows, outflows, and stocks of your financial resources. The Important Thing is the Mental Model There are plenty of apps and spreadsheet templates you can use to track all of your finances down to the last cent without having to think about it too much.…

  • v1.01.00 Ch1 – The Minimum Effective Crowbar

    This first section explains the most important things you can do immediately to build momentum on the course to a post-consumer lifestyle. It covers both actions and attitude, or mindset. You need both. If you don’t read the rest of the book and only do the minimum viable crowbar, you will have enormously changed your…

  • v1.01.01 Ch1 – Think About Money to Forget About Money

    We’re going to spend a lot of time thinking about and dealing with money in this volume. You might get the impression that I’m advocating that you think about money all of the time. I am not. I advocate that you think intensely about money all of the time for a short period of time, in…

  • v1.00.16 Intro: Consider the Crowbar

    I want you to be free to do stuff. I want you to internalize a sufficiency and abundance mindset, realize that consumer ideology is a deeply ingrained satchel of nonsense, develop broad and stoke-directed skills, apply systems thinking to your life, and I want you to spend the rest of your life doing stuff you…

  • v1.00.15 Intro: A Post-Consumer Field Manual in Three Volumes

    I am going to structure this how-to manual in three volumes that map to the first three major phases of the journey of Deep Response: the Crowbar, the Moat, and the Open World. These volumes, or phases of the journey, map roughly to the three main pillars I argued for in my first book: autonomy…

  • v1.00.14 Intro: Don’t Skip Steps

    You don’t have to care about working with other people to build/contribute to the pockets of successor cultures that will arise out of the ruins of the current consumerist hegemony to get value out of these books. But I do, and for the sake of narrative coherence I’m going to assume you do too. If…

  • v1.00.13 Intro: Seedpods of the Future

    In Deep Response I argued that attempting to ‘solve’ the multiple unfolding crises of the world was to misunderstand the kind of issue we are facing in the 21st century. I claimed that we didn’t actually have a problem, because problems are issues that can be made to go away with some particular set of…

  • v1.00.12 Intro: Choose Your Own Adventure

    I can’t stress enough that there is no one specific correct style of post-consumer lifestyle that I advocate for. Post-consumerism isn’t one specific lifestyle. It is an umbrella term that simply indicates what the new lifestyle has moved past. All the term means is that it is someone who has rejected the notion that the…

  • v1.00.11 Introduction: Where to Begin

    Note: This is supposed to be a pragmatic field manual. But I can’t stop myself from contextualization and philosophizing. I’m going to put all that stuff here in the Introduction, which it is perfectly fine for you to skip to get to the good stuff. This is a field manual for adopting and internalizing post-consumer…