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+# Working Outline — Book 1
+
+Navigation document. See `CLAUDE.md` for voice / persona / format /
+KDP conventions. See `docs/ideas/<slug>.md` for per-chapter content.
+Drafts in `books/book1/chapters/`.
+
+Status: **seed** → **stub** → **draft** → **final**.
+
+## Resolved
+
+- **Drug policy.** THC + mushroom microdose explicit, memoir-not-protocol.
+  Hard / concentrated drugs called out as the line not crossed. The
+  natural-vs-concentrated distinction → *The Danger Is in the Dose*.
+- **Citation.** Named source, paraphrase posture, no verbatim > 1 sentence
+  from copyrighted modern work, no footnotes. Public domain quoted freely.
+- **Voice locked** across Preface, *Understanding Oneself*, *No One Is
+  Coming*. All future drafts calibrate to these three.
+- **Preface is a chapter** (Amazon "Look Inside" hook).
+- **Sample opener = B (method-first):** Preface → Understanding Oneself
+  → No One Is Coming.
+- **Working titles locked** for all current seeds.
+- **Pain trio = 3 chapters** (Signal → Alters → Shame).
+- **Presence vs. Say-No = 2 chapters** (split).
+- **Per-chapter idea files** in `docs/ideas/`. New content goes into the
+  relevant chapter file when possible.
+
+## Chapters
+
+### Drafts
+
+| Status | Chapter | File |
+|---|---|---|
+| final | Preface — Who This Is For | `books/book1/chapters/00-preface.md` |
+| draft | Understanding Oneself | `books/book1/chapters/01-understanding-oneself.md` |
+| draft | No One Is Coming | `books/book1/chapters/02-no-one-is-coming.md` |
+| draft | On Grit | `books/book1/chapters/03-on-grit.md` |
+
+### Seeds & stubs (full content in `docs/ideas/<slug>.md`)
+
+| Bucket | Status | Chapter | Idea file |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Mind | stub | The Five Tabs | `ideas/five-tabs.md` |
+| Mind | seed | On The Shadow | `ideas/on-the-shadow.md` |
+| Pain | stub | Pain Is a Signal | `ideas/pain-signal.md` |
+| Pain | seed | Pain That Alters | `ideas/pain-alters.md` |
+| Pain | seed | Shame Is Old Code | `ideas/shame-old-code.md` |
+| Self-Reliance | seed | No One Hits Harder Than Life | `ideas/hits-harder.md` |
+| Strength & Restraint | seed | Warrior in the Garden | `ideas/warrior-garden.md` |
+| Strength & Restraint | seed | On Presence | `ideas/on-presence.md` |
+| Strength & Restraint | seed | No Is an Acceptable Answer | `ideas/no-acceptable.md` |
+| Strength & Restraint | seed | The Throat Punch I Don't Throw | `ideas/throat-punch.md` |
+| Strength & Restraint | seed | On Empathy | `ideas/on-empathy.md` |
+| Other People | seed | The People Who Are Extensions of Me | `ideas/extensions-of-me.md` |
+| Other People | seed | Your Parents Did The Best They Could | `ideas/parents-best.md` |
+| Inheritance | seed | Genetic Memory | `ideas/genetic-memory.md` |
+| Inheritance | seed | The Levels You Inherit | `ideas/levels-inherit.md` |
+| Proportion | seed | The Danger Is in the Dose | `ideas/danger-dose.md` |
+
+## Theme buckets (candidate "parts" if grouped)
+
+1. **Mind** — Understanding Oneself, Five Tabs, On The Shadow.
+2. **Pain** — Signal → Alters → Shame.
+3. **Self-Reliance / Resilience** — No One Is Coming, Hits Harder Than Life.
+4. **Strength & Restraint** — Warrior, Presence, No Is an Acceptable
+   Answer, Throat Punch, Empathy, On Grit.
+5. **Other People** — Extensions of Me, Parents Did Their Best.
+6. **Inheritance** — Genetic Memory, Levels You Inherit.
+7. **Proportion** — Danger Is in the Dose.
+
+## Open Questions (live across sessions)
+
+Move into Resolved when settled.
+
+- **Pen name** — TBD.
+- **Final book title** — TBD.
+- **Subtitle** — TBD.
+- **Parts grouping** — flat chapters (Aurelius mode) vs. grouped into
+  named parts (modern non-fiction mode). Theme buckets above are
+  natural part candidates.
+- **Final chapter order within / across parts** — TBD when spine fills.
+- **Citation density** — currently light. Could tighten or loosen.
+- **Cover, KDP keywords, category, A+ content** — sales-page metadata,
+  separate workstream. Not blocking but flag before publication.
+- **Front matter content** — title page, copyright, disclaimer
+  paragraph, table of contents. Stub before publication.
+- **Back matter content** — about-the-author (in persona),
+  acknowledgments, also-by, call-to-review.
+- **Stoic-pushback distribution** — the signature *"Stoics said X,
+  however I argue Y"* move should not appear in every chapter. Track
+  where it lands so the device stays sharp.
+
+## Next Inputs (priority order)
+
+1. **Story fills** — any one unlocks a draft. Ordered by leverage:
+   - Fight stories → `ideas/warrior-garden.md`.
+   - Stoic-tie-in + personal stories → `ideas/hits-harder.md`.
+   - Altering-pain story → `ideas/pain-alters.md`.
+   - Shamed-and-right story → `ideas/shame-old-code.md`.
+   - Physical + emotional pain examples → `ideas/pain-signal.md`.
+2. **Next chapter to draft.** Recommendation: *The Five Tabs* — stub
+   already; completes the Mind bucket; sits next to *Understanding
+   Oneself* in the same theme.
+
+## Sample Window Strategy (locked)
+
+Opener: Preface → Understanding Oneself → No One Is Coming. Reader gets
+*who*, *how I figured anything out*, *what to do* — in that order. Buy
+is justified before the ~10% sample ends.