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The toolkit room

Tools, briefings, and practices for living from Circle 1.

We built these because we spent thirteen years needing them. Some are free downloads.

Founding Readers see new tools first.


Downloads

Tools you can use today.

The Pattern Spotter

A two-page printable. The five most common avoidance patterns, what each one looks like at the desk, and the sixty-second move that interrupts each one.

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The Vulnerability Hangover Protocol

What to do the morning after you sent the brave email, made the brave ask, or shared the brave draft. Three pages. Reads in five minutes. Saves the day.

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Name Your One Reader

An exercise for writers. Fifteen minutes. Removes the abstract terror of "audience" by replacing it with one specific person. The single highest-leverage move in the toolkit.

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What is missing from this room?

If there is a tool you wish we had, tell us. We build the ones that get asked about most.

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