The spine
A system expressive enough to encode its own rules cannot, from inside, decide every truth about itself — and we are inside.
Eight layers, climbed in order — each ends at a wall someone proved, and the next layer begins as the answer. Follow it, or wander; the paths are always there.
One question, five approaches
This curriculum began as a Notion workspace and a simple suspicion: that Gödel, Maxwell, Bell, Shannon, and Chalmers were somehow working on the same problem. The paths hold the units; the reading order weaves them into one line; the timeline is the historical anchor; the desk is where you actually work. Everything a reader needs now lives here — the app is the source of truth.
Three habits make the system work: something is always active (the desk only helps when a unit is in motion), the Sunday recall (fifteen minutes, no notes open), and one book per grip — when a podcast guest fascinates you, don't binge episodes; read their book. The rest is on how to use this.