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What are you working on?
Choose a guide for a practical starting point. Each connects decisions, tradeoffs, patterns and deeper reading.
Start with the person’s purpose
Listening, following a practice, exploring a question or preparing to teach need different approaches.
Find patterns by purpose → · Reading plans and pressureYou do not need to read the whole library. Start with the question closest to your work.
Help people read with context
Choose a reading unit, preserve place and make study tools work together.
What does this person need to understand or find?5-minute routeMake room for listening and silence
Design audio, read-along and an ending that lets the phone disappear.
Can the practice continue when the screen is off?5-minute routeMake AI useful and accountable
Show what AI did, support source inspection and preserve human agency.
What authority might a fluent answer appear to have?8-minute guideRespect attention, across every channel
Compare reminders, daily emails, feeds and deliberate stopping points.
What would “enough for now” look like?8-minute guideFund the product without exploiting trust
Paywalls, subscriptions, credits and bring-your-own-key choices.
What is being paid for—and what happens when payment stops?8-minute guideLearn without surveilling spiritual life
Choose useful metrics while protecting chats, prayers and reading histories.
What is the least sensitive evidence that could answer the question?5-minute starting frameworkDesign social features around trust
Choose audience, accountability and moderation before adding a feed.
Who can see this, respond to it and exercise authority?Use this with your team—or your coding assistant
Read one guide, compare one pattern, and write a decision with a testable outcome. Bring the same brief into implementation so the intent survives the build.
Open the decision worksheet