Apex & Abyss

For those obsessed with leverage: strategy, seduction, influence, capital, flow, and the long arc of civilization.

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INFLUENCE : The Foundational File (The Operator's Manual #0)

Factor governing your behavior and world

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The Psychological Switch That Makes Progress Inevitable

There is a phase in every meaningful transformation that doesn’t announce itself with fanfare or motivation.

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INFLUENCE : PILLAR III (The Operator's Manual #4)

Why People Do Things They Never Thought They Would.

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How Manipulators Prepare You Before They Ask

The canal below his window was the color of old ink.

Jun 22•Apex & Abyss

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Why People Defend Ideas That Hurt Them

Rain in the city doesn’t fall so much as it arrives, sheet after sheet, like the sky has an argument it won’t finish.

Jun 21•Apex & Abyss

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Burning Money to Stay Rich | On Luxury, Status & the Psychology of Distance

Why the most profitable brands on earth destroy what they cannot sell, refuse the customers they could serve, and become more desirable the less they…

Jun 19•Apex & Abyss

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INFLUENCE : Six-Axis Model Planning Mode (The Operator's Manual #3)

How to use six-axis model to plan any psychological operations

Jun 17•Apex & Abyss

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The Biggest Lie Ever Told About Money

The Capital File: A Heretic’s Guide to Money

Jun 16•Apex & Abyss

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INFLUENCE : PILLAR II (The Operator's Manual #2)

The room smells like institutional cleaning fluid and mild anxiety.

Jun 15•Apex & Abyss

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The Law of Attraction Is Actually Biology

He had read somewhere that you shouldn’t chase the butterfly.

Jun 14•Apex & Abyss

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The Man She's Not Prepared For

On Primal Seduction

Jun 13•Apex & Abyss

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INFLUENCE : PILLAR I (The Operator's Manual # 1)

Four levers to control behavior

Jun 11•Apex & Abyss

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Most Dreams Die Before They're Even Thinkable

The light in the kitchen is wrong at 4 a.m.

Jun 10•Apex & Abyss

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THE INFLUENCE STACK : Authority, Novelty, Identity, and Installation

How Human Minds Are Opened, Shaped, and Directed

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Apex & Abyss

For those obsessed with leverage: strategy, seduction, influence, capital, flow, and the long arc of civilization.