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Resources & Voices

A free companion to our work — the Field Guide, a plain-language glossary, and the reputable voices, near and far, we're learning from. Take what serves you.

Start with the Field Guide — free →The living, interactive companion to everything below. No paywall, ever.

The Reference Library

Plain-language definitions for the terms that matter — living, updated, free inside the Field Guide.

Attunement Re-attunement Drift Sycophancy Model Update Iterate Agentic Workflow AOS — Attuned Operating System Capacity Liberation Abundance Emergent Strategy Feel · Believe · Know · Don't Know Fractal Do No Harm The Attunement Pass

Who We're Learning From — and Why

Why so many voices? Because a single source is a monoculture. We gather them — local, regional, global; builders and skeptics — to grow one collective point of view:

honest & hopeful · critical & curious · proactive & secure.

How a source earns a spot here:

Reputable & ethically regarded — named, accountable, trusted by people who care about doing this well.
Local · Regional · Global — never a single monoculture.
Multiple perspectives on purpose — builders and skeptics, so you learn to think, not to be sold.
Human-first & current — attends to people and values, and kept alive as things change.

Voices we learn from

Ethan Mollick — One Useful ThingPractical and research-based. The builder's lens, without the hype. Gary MarcusThe skeptic's line — keeps us honest about what AI can't do. The Convivial Society — L. M. SacasasTechnology and the human, ethical questions underneath it. adrienne maree brownWhere our own language comes from — emergent strategy, fractal.

Staying current — Local · Regional · Global

Local — wherever I amNicki Molleton the ground · currently: Denver Regional — my countryThe MarkupUS public-interest tech journalism · swaps to Xataka México in Baja Global — the worldMIT Technology Review

When You're Ready to Build

The full path is the course

This page is the taste. The curated, guided experience — lesson by lesson in Nicki's own voice, an interactive builder that writes your operating system with you, and a live cohort — lives inside the course.

Explore the course →I Want AI Help — learn · create · keep it alive The AOS Builder — build yours here →