Curated references that informed the systems lens of the book and companion.
Systems & Thinking
- Donella Meadows — Thinking in Systems
- Peter Senge — The Fifth Discipline
- Herbert A. Simon — writings on bounded rationality and attention
- W. Edwards Deming — systems thinking in quality and variation
Attention, Focus, Deep Work
- Cal Newport — Deep Work (and related essays on attention)
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Flow
- Gloria Mark — research on attention, interruption, and focus
Cognitive Load, Working Memory, Learning
- John Sweller — cognitive load theory
- Daniel Kahneman — Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein — Nudge (choice architecture)
Habits, Behavior, Environment Design
- James Clear — Atomic Habits (behavior + environment)
- BJ Fogg — Tiny Habits
- Kurt Lewin — foundational framing: behavior as function of person + environment
Stress, Regulation, and Recovery
- Robert Sapolsky — Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
- Kelly McGonigal — work on stress and perception
- Bruce McEwen — allostatic load research
Executive Function & Variability
- Russell Barkley — executive function and self-regulation frameworks
- Thomas E. Brown — attention/executive function models
(Listed for conceptual background; this project is intentionally non-diagnostic.)
Meaning, Identity, and Practical Philosophy
- Viktor Frankl — Man’s Search for Meaning
- William James — psychology of experience and attention
- Stoic tradition (Epictetus / Marcus Aurelius) — practical orientation and agency
Note: These sources are included as intellectual roots and lenses—not as claims of authority or diagnosis.
