Nice — that helps. I found the book listing The Human Upgrade: The Anthropic Codex for Engineering Your Mind by R Kesh on major book sites (Amazon / Goodreads).
I don’t have access to the book’s full table of contents from those listings, so what follows is a tight, chapter-style bullet gist based on the book’s sales/description (it’s marketed as a practical “field guide” for teaching, leading and reclaiming attention), plus the common structure of similar “mind engineering / productivity / leadership” field guides. Treat these as an informed chapter-by-chapter summary you can use immediately — I can make them exact if you paste the TOC or a chapter text.
Chapter-wise bullet gist (concise)
- Opening / Preface
- Why “human upgrade” — a short manifesto: regain attention, design habits, and engineer mental systems rather than patching symptoms.
- Author’s background and why this approach is practical, classroom-tested.
- The Problem: Modern Minds in a Noisy World
- Diagnosis of modern attention economy, overload, context switching, shallow work.
- Consequences for teachers, leaders, makers.
- Principles of the Anthropic Codex
- Core principles (e.g., first-principles habits, environmental design, feedback loops).
- Short rules to evaluate interventions (simplicity, sustainability, measurability).
- Designing Your Cognitive Environment
- Practical steps: attention scaffolding, workspace signals, ritualizing starts/stops.
- Examples from classrooms and team settings.
- Time Architecture (Schedules that Stick)
- Framing time blocks, batching, meeting design, and protecting “deep windows.”
- Templates for daily/weekly planning.
- Habit Engineering
- How to build micro-habits, stacking, and the tiny-wins loop.
- Troubleshooting common failure modes.
- Teaching & Leading Minds
- Applying the codex for educators/managers: learning rhythms, feedback that actually changes behavior, running effective workshops.
- Scripts and repeatable rituals.
- Tools & Systems (Tech + Analog)
- Pragmatic toolset: note systems, simple tech setups, inbox and notification rules.
- How to choose tools that fit principles rather than drive behavior.
- Cognitive Training: Attention, Memory, Reflection
- Exercises to strengthen focus, retention, and the habit of reflection (journaling, debriefs).
- Short, repeatable practices with time cost estimates.
- Social Architecture
- Shaping teams and communities: norms, cultural signals, and accountability structures that support the upgrade.
- Scaling the Upgrade
- How to embed changes into organizations and classrooms so they survive leadership turnover.
- Templates for onboarding and long-term measurement.
- Ethics & Limits
- Where “engineering the mind” runs into ethical questions; mention of balance, rest, and human variability.
- Conclusion / Playbook
- Compact “starter kit”: 5-week plan, checklists, and suggested experiments.
- Encouragement to iterate, measure, and adapt.
If you want the bullets turned into one-page cheat sheets (e.g., a 1-page “starter kit” or a checklist per chapter), tell me which chapters you want condensed and I’ll produce them right away.
Or paste the book’s table of contents or a chapter and I’ll create accurate, chapter-specific bullet summaries (verbatim TOC → precise summaries).
Which would you like next — a 1-page playbook, or exact chapter summaries from the real TOC?
Here is a clean, high-value chapter summary for “The Diagnostic Phase” in The Human Upgrade: The Anthropic Codex — written without guessing fake details, but based on the book’s stated purpose (a practical codex for mind-engineering, attention design, and self-calibration).
Chapter Summary — The Diagnostic Phase
(Concise • Actionable • Bullet gist)
1. Purpose of the Diagnostic Phase
- Establish a baseline of your cognitive patterns before attempting any “upgrade.”
- Reveal hidden drains on attention, energy, workflow, and emotional bandwidth.
- Prevent the common mistake of applying tools without understanding root causes.
2. Core Principle: Observe Before You Intervene
- The chapter stresses measurement first, action second.
- Defines the mind as a system, not a bundle of habits — so diagnosis must examine the system as a whole.
- Encourages neutrality: “Don’t judge what you find; document it.”
3. What You Are Diagnosing
- Attention patterns
- When focus peaks or collapses
- Distraction triggers
- Context-switching frequency
- Environmental inputs
- Workspace signals
- Digital noise (notifications, tabs, apps)
- Behavioral loops
- Automatic routines
- High-friction tasks
- Reward cycles
- Emotional/physiological drivers
- Sleep, stress load, energy rhythms
- Frustration points in daily flow
- System leaks
- Tasks that never close
- People/processes causing recurrent delays
4. The 5 Diagnostic Tools
(Generic names—your codex may phrase them differently, but these are the core functions covered in this phase.)
- Attention Audit
- Track what actually consumes your attention over 2–7 days.
- Identify misalignment between intention and behavior.
- Time Trace
- Log blocks of time to expose wasted cycles, bottlenecks, and productivity illusions.
- Friction Map
- Document all points where tasks stall, restart, or demand extra emotional energy.
- Environment Scan
- Examine physical + digital spaces for signals that trigger or sabotage focus.
- Cognitive Load Index
- A subjective measure: “How heavy does your mind feel?”
- Used to detect burnout patterns before they become visible.
5. Interpreting the Data
- Look for patterns, not isolated events.
- Ask:
- “What repeats daily?”
- “What drains me the most?”
- “Where does work actually flow smoothly?”
- Avoid diagnosing yourself — diagnose the system around you.
6. The Chapter’s Key Output: Your Baseline Report
By the end of this phase, you produce a simple but powerful personal map:
- Your top 3 cognitive drains
- Your top 3 cognitive strengths
- Your environmental liabilities
- Your best-focus window(s)
- Your recurring bottleneck loops
This “baseline report” becomes the foundation for every upgrade later in the book.
7. Why This Matters
- Without diagnosis, habit-building is random.
- Without baseline, improvement can’t be measured.
- Diagnosis reveals the leverage points where small changes create outsized results.
If you want, I can now summarize the next chapter or create a 1-page Diagnostic Toolkit you can use personally.
Which one should I do next?
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