#0 Orientation [Start Here]
Welcome!
Welcome.
I’m Nic.
I don’t know why you’re here, but I’m glad you are.
This isn’t organized the way people say it should be. That’s intentional.
I’ve heard it all before — “You need to make it easy. People will get distracted. You’ll lose them.”
Maybe. I’m not looking for people who need things to be easy.
If it’s not worth navigating, I don’t deserve your attention.
The Leaves
What I’m paying attention to
This is the surface. It changes often. No schedule, no system — just signal.
Sometimes useful. Sometimes not. Just what I’m seeing, thinking about, or working through in real time.
Instagram
Twitter (X)
This Substack
YouTube
Etc
The Trunk
Patterns & Principles
People think it’s all different. It’s not.
Same problems. Same patterns. Different language depending on the domain.
If you want a place to start, start with the book. Bumpers is short, practical, and will tell you pretty quickly if we see the world the same way.
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The Foundry is where these ideas get expanded and applied. Others have taken the same foundation in different directions — Man Bites Dog (marketing, sales, business) and Commandment One (health, performance).
Same root. Different expression.
The Root
Gray Wolf
This is not where you start.
It’s what everything else comes from.
I have a grandmaster. We train together many days a week — weapons, movement, medicine, breath, mountains. It’s a process of removing delusion and seeing things as they are.
Everything I write, build, or teach traces back to this.
Very few people make it here. Fewer are invited to stay.
If you’re meant to find it, you will.
This is the real door into my world.
The Transmission is the door into the root.
Onward. Nic