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The NeoBooks Constellation

(generated by Claude Opus) A strategy map — several intertwingled NeoBooks assembled from one shared pool of Nuggets. v1, deliberately fast-and-loose. 13 June 2026.

The trick this map plays is the trick NeoBooks plays: one pool of reusable Nuggets, many narratives. Below is a shared quarry, then four NeoBooks — each a playlist, each a red thread through the same Net. The same jewel lights up in several necklaces. A fifth (the Big Fungus) is kept deliberately thin, on purpose.

Legend · [have] already a node in your Brain/wiki · [seed] partially written · [new] title-only, a queue item · ⤳ shared across books · the inline/link choice (transclude vs. link) is a per-playlist call.

The Shared Quarry (Nuggets that recur)

The Wound — the Snip! family

The Build — the Trust family

The Form — the NeoBooks family

The Foundations — famous-but-fuzzy, made usable

These foundation Nuggets do double duty: each is attention-bait on its own ("everyone cites Ostrom, almost nobody applies her"), and each armors the method against the "isn't this naive?" reflex.

NeoBook 1 — What If We Trusted You? (the front door)

Red thread: An ordinary moment of being trusted cracks the world open — then we trace how we lost trust, what it cost us, and how to design it back in. Audience: everyone. The Muggle-friendly flagship. DfT as story.

  1. The "Oh Shit" Moment — an experience of Design from Trust [seed]
  2. How I Got Here — 30 years, the Brain, the book that died in 2000 [new] ⤳
  3. What If We Trusted You? [have] ⤳
  4. How We Lost Trust and Designed Everything from Mistrust [have] ⤳
  5. DfM Doesn't Just Cost More — It Makes Us Dumber and Cuts Away Our Genius [seed]
  6. Gullets with Wallets and Eyeballs — how citizens became consumers [seed] ⤳
  7. Trust Breaking, Sector by Sector — food, health, education, finance, government (quickly) [seed]
  8. Disparate Movements Have Already Figured This Out [new]
  9. Here's What They Share [new]
  10. Let's Redesign Everything from Trust [seed]
  11. Why This Changes Education, Science, Journalism, Governance [new] ⤳

Closes by handing the reader onward — to the method (DfT) and the diagnosis (Snip!).

NeoBook 2 — Design from Trust (the method)

Red thread: Trust isn't a feeling, it's a design choice — here's how to make it, where it breaks, and how to build from it on Monday. Audience: designers, leaders, your advisory clients (the Perspectrum kind). The geeky handle that begs the question — which is its job. (Essentially your wiki ToC, intertwingled with Book 1.)

  1. The Double Intro — What's a NeoBook? + the DfT Introduction [seed] ⤳
  2. Trust is… [have] ⤳
  3. Examples of Design from Trust [have]
  4. Recurring Patterns of DfT [have]
  5. Principles of DfT [have]
  6. Benefits of DfT [have]
  7. Reality Check — where trust doesn't belong; bounded trust; Ostrom's commons applied [seed] ⤳ (the chapter that answers "isn't this naive?")
  8. Design from Mistrust [have] ⤳
  9. Implementing DfT — NextStacks and other architectures [seed] ⤳
  10. Back Matter [have]

NeoBook 3 — Snip! (the diagnosis / the attention engine)

Red thread: Modern life keeps cutting people off from things they should stay attached to. Name the cut, and the news starts making sense. Audience: news-readers across the whole spectrum. The viral on-ramp — and Season 1 is already shot.

  1. The Double Intro [seed] ⤳
  2. What's a Snip? — the move, lightly funny, instantly legible [have]
  3. The Consequence Snip — actors who don't bear their results (Taleb as ally, not rival) [seed] ⤳
  4. The Citizen→Consumer Snip — the Four Separations [have] ⤳
  5. Season 1: The Global Financial Crisis (your three videos) [have]
  6. Seasons 2–4: Finance → War → Governance → Attention [seed]
  7. Where Snip! Doesn't Apply — the rigor chapter (division of labor isn't always a wound) [new]
  8. From Snip to Reconnect — every cut implies its own cure [new]

Closes by handing off to WIWTY / DfT: the wound points at the build.

NeoBook 4 — Rethinking Books (the self-demonstrating demo)

Red thread: You're reading the argument inside the very thing the argument is about. Audience: the curious, potential collaborators, and the funder you'll eventually show. This one is the demonstrator — a mostly-built version of it is your strongest pitch artifact.

  1. How Books Fail Us — the whole Brain region: can't update, can't talk back, one linear path, overprotected, inert souvenirs, Indra's Net in trousers [have] ⤳
  2. Books Are Where Ideas Go to Die [have] ⤳
  3. What's a NeoBook? [seed] ⤳
  4. Nuggets, Playlists, Transclusion, Version History — the mechanics, shown by doing [seed] ⤳
  5. The Red Thread vs. The Pulled Thread [new] ⤳
  6. From Audience to Commons [new] ⤳
  7. Crystallization & Shared Pearls [seed] ⤳
  8. Data Is the New Soil, Not Oil [seed] ⤳
  9. Why This Boomerangs into Education, Science, Journalism, Governance [new] ⤳
  10. Weaving the World → The Big Fungus (the destination, kept thin on purpose) [seed] ⤳

The deliberately-thin one — Weaving the World / The Big Fungus

Not a book to write now — a playlist that conveys its aim with mostly titles (your own point: 2/3 titles still shows where you're pointing). Leafcutter ants, shared context as nutrition for civilization, the open commons beyond Wikipedia. Let it stay a sketch that the other four quietly feed. It's the north star, not the next stone.

Watch one jewel light up in several necklaces

That repetition isn't redundancy. It's the proof of concept: improve that Nugget once, and every NeoBook it lives in gets better at the same instant. A book can't do that. This is the whole pitch, demonstrated structurally.

This drawing is your backlog

Every [new] and [seed] title above is a morning-prompt candidate. The three-Nuggets-each-morning ritual pulls its three from this list — weighted toward [seed] (fastest finishes) and whatever's hot that day. Speak one into rough form, sharpen it, hand it down the relay. Fill a Nugget once; it upgrades every NeoBook it sits in.

The cathedral drawing and the pile of stones are the same pile.