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Show HN: I wrote a free trilogy about perception, presence, and leadership
- mr_octopus 7mo agoThree volumes. Free PDFs. No sign-up. Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). I kept noticing smart people missing the same things. Not from lack of intelligence — from filters they didn't know they were running. So I wrote a nonfiction trilogy called The Calibrated View. Volume I covers nine perceptual filters — the lenses you inherit from family, culture, trauma, information diet — that shape what you see before you're conscious enough to question them. Volume II is about what it costs to stay in a room when the room gets difficult. Volume III is about the person who sees a gap and fills it without being asked. Each chapter opens with a real person's story, then names the pattern. Bowlby's attachment theory, Fannie Lou Hamer's voter registration, a man in India who planted a forest alone for 40 years. I published under a pen name and put everything under Creative Commons. Built the PDFs with Playwright/Chromium from Markdown source. The site is a static flipbook on GitHub Pages. Happy to answer questions about the writing process, the framework, or the build pipeline.