Marcus Aurelius
Practice over theory — attention as a daily craft.
Carl Jung
How the unconscious shapes the systems we build and inhabit.
Plato
Clarity under pressure; the examined life as a design constraint.
Plato
Forms, justice, and what a well-ordered system asks of its makers.
Carl Jung
Psychology as a map for becoming — not just diagnosing.
Seneca
Short notes on time, distraction, and keeping the workshop clear.
Alfred Adler
Meaning as something you make — not something you wait for.
Carl Jung
Jung’s private descent — images before the theories.
Rumi
Stories that teach by turning — path as repetition and return.
Traditional (Middle Persian)
A soul’s tour of heaven and hell — judgment as map.
Traditional (Tibetan)
Bardo Thodol — guidance through the in-between.
Epictetus
Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion — freedom as what remains under your assent.
Dante Alighieri
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso — one journey in three books.
Seneca
Time is not short — it is poorly spent.
Carl Jung
Jung telling his own myth — biography as psyche.
Richard Hamming
Hamming on learning, style, and how to do important work.
Stewart Brand
Keeping things going as a civilizational craft.
Douglas Hofstadter
Strange loops across math, music, and mind.
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Jung’s late, approachable map of how images move beneath speech — useful far outside the clinic.
I keep returning to the : the disowned material that still steers design decisions, team politics, and what we call “taste.”
The book’s gift is not diagnosis. It is permission to treat symbols as working tools — including the ones that show up in products.
Dotted words open a definition