Patterns of Deep Response

Category: volume1

  • v1.00.1 Introduction

    Solutions return current circumstances to a preferred prior operational dynamic. Responses engage with current circumstances in a way that moves the system forward to a new operational dynamic. A comprehensive solution to the polycrisis seeks to return civilization to industrial consumer capitalist pseudo-stability. Critically, seeking a solution to the metacrisis implies no fundamental critique of…

  • v1.05 What to Do About Work

    If your job is fine, just keep doing it for now. If it is a dumpster fire, leave it. In either case, consider a sabbatical or DIY sabbatical to increase the speed of your crowbar phase. Time Freedom = Savings / Cost of Living. It’s the ratio that matters. If your ratio is 1, you…

  • v1.04 Ditch Your Surplus Stuff

    You likely have a bunch of stuff you don’t really need. It’s lying around your house taking up space, being air conditioned and heated for no reason, slowly losing value while not really being used by you and making you like your space less. More importantly, letting your excess stuff go will unlock a greater…

  • v1.03 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…

  • v1.02 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 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…

  • v1.00.0 Preface

    In late 2024 I released a book titled Deep Response: An Emergency Education in Post-Consumer Praxis. It was a lightly fictional conversation between my 38 year old self and my 25 year old self. My younger self was really worked up about climate change, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss. He was hoovering up books like Overshoot and Limits to…