✱ The Playbook

Field guides for effective navigation and mapping of your environment.

Practical playbooks for building an intentional relationship with AI. Organised the way the work actually behaves, as an ecosystem.

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The library

Three surfaces of practice.

The playbook groups its skills and references by how you use them: what sharpens the individual, what shapes the collaboration, and what builds the platform underneath.

The library

11 skills.

Short, usable, and revised as the practice evolves. Filter by area, or read the lot.

For PractitionersSFIA 4+Model L3

Contested Ground

A narrative guide to finding where research and evidence disagree, and using that clash of opinions, rather than just the topic, to form your own original perspective.

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For PractitionersSFIA 3+Model L3

Song Validator

Review and contribute to original songs using Phil's specific lyric writing style, rhyme schemes, and thematic progression formula. Anchored in intimate-to-epic post-rock worship structures.

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For PractitionersSFIA 3+Model L3

Catalytic Converter

Transform existing articles into tight, effect-driven LinkedIn posts that drive traffic without manipulation. Grounded in psychological effects + distilled truth.

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For PractitionersSFIA 3+Model L3

Adversarial Distiller

A four-persona method for extracting the incontrovertible truth from any written argument — what it cannot escape claiming, what it is really fighting against, and the subsidiary truths that survive the debate.

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For PractitionersSFIA 3+Model L3

Article Accelerator

A human-led, AI-assisted workflow for producing rigorous, adversarially-reviewed written content — from rough idea to publish-ready article — at a fraction of the usual time investment.

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For PractitionersSFIA 3+Model L2

Daily Augmentations

The foundational layer of Human/AI collaboration — everyday tasks where AI assistance is straightforward, immediate, and accessible regardless of technical background.

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For PlatformsSFIA 4+Model L3

Data Request Fulfillment

A judgment-led, two-phase workflow for fulfilling customer dataset requests — AI-driven search and generation, with adversarial loops on both data and documentation before secure airlock publish.

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For PractitionersSFIA 3+Model L2

Reflection Loop

A fifteen-minute end-of-session protocol for AI-augmented work — five questions that extract genuine learning from every build session and compound your Learning Rate over time.

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For PlatformsSFIA 3+Model L3

Lineage Automation

How to progress from manual AI lineage logging to an automated workflow that captures your working process as a byproduct of how you work — voice notes, session hooks, and AI-assisted structuring.

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For PartnersSFIA 3+Model L1

Building Your Shoal

How to find, start, and maintain a small group of practitioners who compound your learning — including cold-start approaches for remote and isolated practitioners.

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For PractitionersSFIA 3+Model L2

Error-Pattern Library

A personal AI-assisted database of failures and their extracted lessons — with a two-step capture workflow, AI-assisted processing, and pattern-finding that turns individual mistakes into a map of your specific failure modes.

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