Field Guide for a Finite Life

A loose catalog of systems that shape a human life. You are doing your best inside systems not designed with your limits in mind.

Given the limits of a finite life, what holds together and what falls apart?

This guide does not tell you what to do. It helps you see what you are already doing and what the system is charging you for it.

Orientation first. Change, if any, tends to follow sideways.

These will be created and updated overtime, first drafts through a newsletter: Eartharcade: A Field Guide

STRUCTURES

what shapes behavior shapes choice

environment

games

money

work

repair systems

CONSTRAINTS

what cannot be escaped

energy

attention

nourishment

rest

you’re going to die

PERCEPTION AND CHOICE

how decisions happen

narrative

truth and error correction

agency

CONNECTION AND MEANING

what makes life feel alive

wonder

relationships

play

creation

risk/adventure

PRESSURE, LOSS, SCALE

when systems fail and when they grow

loss

pressure

intensity

expansion