The Workshop
Interactive Tools
Eleven working tools that let you experience steamHouse thinking rather than just read about it. All self-contained, no login required, no data collected.
Know Your World — Context and perspective
Random Earthling Generator — Meet a statistically plausible person from anywhere on Earth. What's their life like?
Random 100 Earthling Generator — Sort and explore a demographic sampling of the planet.
Perception vs. Reality Quiz — Test your assumptions about the world against actual data. Most people are wrong about most things.
Where Do You Stand? — Fifteen questions that show you your global position across eight dimensions of human experience. Where do you fall among 8 billion people?
Cucurbit Explorer — Enter your location, discover which gourds grow there. A steamHouse tradition made interactive.
Know Your Mind — Self-knowledge
Thinking Bias Profiler — Discover your personal patterns of biased thinking across eight dimensions. Takes 8-10 minutes. Changes how you see your own certainty.
Authorship Assessment — Measure your five practices of authorship: Recognition, Interruption, Reflection, Direction, Training. Where are you strongest? Where is there room to grow?
Digital Vulnerability Profiler — Eight dimensions of digital vulnerability — from Notification Pull to Privacy Blindness. How exploitable is your attention?
Make Better Decisions — Applied thinking
Action Calculus Decision Maker — Analyze any decision through four stages: Gate Check, Value Calculation, Motivation Weighting, Individual Calibration.
Decision Audit — Check any pending decision against 20 common bias traps. Static, structured, thorough.
Decision Advisor — AI-powered adaptive conversation about a real decision you're facing. Dynamic, responsive, personal.
Yummy Unit Calculator — Map your personal value economics. Where does additional spending stop making you happier? What would reallocation actually feel like?
Book Companion Tool/App What It Personalizes
TRICKED Thinking Bias ProfilerYour bias vulnerability across 8 dimensions
HOOKED/WIRED Digital Vulnerability Profiler (to build)Your susceptibility to exploitation techniques
Stone Age Minds Mismatch Quiz (to build)Where your stone-age defaults are most active
You Are the Author Marker Explorer + AssessmentYour development across 58 markers
TOGETHER Team Dynamics Assessment (to build)Your collaboration patterns
The Action Calculus Action Calculus DM + Decision Audit + Decision AdvisorYour decision-making strengths
The Giving Calculus Yummy Unit CalculatorYour personal value economics
Framework Guide Full tool suiteComprehensive reference to all tools