Articles
The Automatic Mind
Field note
Why most of a day runs on inherited scripts, and what it takes to notice one while it is running.
- Self
- Consciousness
Awareness Library
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Reading, watching, listening, and practice. Some of it ours, much of it from people who have been examining these questions far longer.
Format
Topic
12 entries
Books
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The foundational account of the two systems behind judgment, and where each of them fails.
- Self
- Influence
Exercises
The Ten-Minute Noticing Practice
Awareness exercise
A structured way to observe a reaction from beginning to end without intervening in it.
- Self
Videos
How Attention Became a Market
Awareness Project video
A plain explanation of the incentives behind the systems that shape what you look at each day.
- Influence
- Technology
Podcast
Episode 01 — Awareness Does Not Mean Agreement
The Awareness Project Podcast
On the difference between questioning well and simply disagreeing loudly.
- AQ
- Consciousness
Research
Toward a Measure of Awareness
Working paper
An early outline of the dimensions an Awareness Quotient framework would need to hold.
- AQ
Articles
What You See in Other People
Field note
Projection, and the quiet way our unexamined material gets assigned to someone else.
- Relationships
- Self
Articles
Institutions Behave Like Their Incentives
Field note
Why intentions explain less about organizations than the structures they operate inside.
- Systems
- Leadership
Exercises
Mapping a Trigger
Awareness exercise
A written exercise for tracing a reaction back to the expectation underneath it.
- Relationships
- Self
Books
Manufacturing Consent
Herman & Chomsky
A structural reading of how information environments shape what feels like common sense.
- Influence
- Systems
Videos
Awareness as a Leadership Capacity
Awareness Project video
What changes in a team when a leader can name their own pattern out loud.
- Leadership
- Systems
Podcast
Episode 02 — Inherited Beliefs
The Awareness Project Podcast
Where our first convictions come from, and what it costs to examine them later.
- Self
- Influence