The Workshop
Books — Detailed Outlines
Everything we're building. Honest about where it stands.
steamHouse has spent years designing a comprehensive system for human development. Some pieces are polished. Some are rough. Some are barely past the sketch phase. We're showing you all of it — because transparency is a principle, not a marketing strategy.
Everything here is open for inspection. If you see something that interests you, dig in. If you see something that's wrong, tell us. If you see something you could help with, we'd love to hear from you.
Book Drafts
steamHouse's intellectual architecture lives in a library of books — each one teaching a different dimension of conscious, purposeful living. Some are complete manuscripts ready for professional editing. Some are early outlines. We're showing you the whole collection because the scope matters as much as any single volume.
Complete Manuscripts (ready for editing):
Tricked: How Your Brain Gets Played A guided tour of your own cognitive biases — 150+ demonstrations you do yourself. The book that makes you distrust your own certainty, in the best possible way. Companion tool: Thinking Bias Profiler.
Hooked: How Your Attention Gets Captured The exploitation mechanics of the attention economy — how notifications, algorithms, and design patterns hijack your Stone Age brain. Not anti-technology. Pro-awareness. Companion tool: Digital Vulnerability Profiler.
You Are the Author The response to everything TRICKED and HOOKED diagnose. Five practices — Recognition, Interruption, Reflection, Direction, Training — that move you from automatic reaction to conscious authorship. The operating manual for an examined life. Companion tool: Authorship Assessment.
Together: You Can't Grow Alone Why the distinctively human develops in relationship and nowhere else. The neurobiology and social psychology of why teams and mentors work — and why isolated individual effort, no matter how heroic, isn't enough.
Wired for Yesterday (formerly Stone Age Minds) The mismatch thesis: your brain is exquisitely adapted for a world that no longer exists. What worked in Mediocristan fails catastrophically in Extremistan. Not a story of deficiency — a story of evolutionary brilliance in the wrong environment.
Mismatched The companion to Wired for Yesterday for younger readers — the same evolutionary mismatch argument made accessible and vivid for middle school audiences.
The Framework Guide The complete reference for the steamHouse intellectual architecture. Four Principles, Three Levels of Consciousness, the Unit of Decision, Care Space, Gold Star Kit — everything, in depth, with research foundations.
The Understory How invisible systems shape visible outcomes. The economics, ecology, and social structures that operate beneath the surface of everyday life.
The Household Family systems as the first team — how household dynamics shape development, and how families can become intentional developmental environments.
Substantial Drafts (in development):
Supertribe: Consciously Chosen Allegiance What happens when tribal identity is chosen rather than inherited? How communities can be united by principles rather than similarity — and why this is humanity's hardest and most important social achievement.
Your Three Minds: A Field Guide to How You Think The Three Mindsets graphic as an operating manual. Think Big, Be Real, and the conscious integration that makes both useful. Positioned between the diagnostic books (TRICKED) and the response books (YATA).
Globe Team: The Planetary Portrait What the world actually looks like — 13 domains of collective human experience, from poverty and health to culture and meaning. The immersion book for planetary literacy.
Globe Team: The Human Test The four steamHouse principles applied as diagnostic lenses to assess how humanity is doing. Where are we exercising agency? Where are we failing at mutual respect? Where is reason prevailing, and where is it absent?
Outlines & Early Stage:
Five Henrys · Convergent Wisdom · Where We Stand · Your Money Story · The Giving Calculus · The Literacy Experiment (Ch 1-4 drafted) · Speak Up · Think Clearly · Better Student · Team Work · Connect · Stay Safe · Stay Curious · Good Habits Free Your Mind · Compelling Story · Objective Story
Each of these is somewhere between outline and partial draft. They exist because the framework demanded them — each one addresses a domain that the system needs covered. View individual status on each page.