AcademicVelocity
Read Faster. Think Deeper. Write Clearer.
PhD-built tools for scholars who want to train capacity, not outsource thinking. No AI writing your work. No shortcuts that leave you weaker.
Velocity isn't haste... it's speed with direction. Your brain is a muscle. Train it.
The Suite
ReadingVelocity
Reading as athletic discipline
Most failures of reading are failures of training. We teach critique and argument but stop teaching reading after elementary school. ReadingVelocity treats attention as a trainable capacity... your cognitive VOâ‚‚ max. Prime, Push, Process. Build the stamina to finish the big books.
FractalView
Scalar thinking for a logarithmic world
Most failures of understanding are failures of scale. Linear minds in a logarithmic world. FractalView is a thinking environment that helps you move between orders of magnitude without losing coherence. From concrete evidence to universal stakes. No AI. Just instruments for insight.
EssayVelocity
Blank page to skeleton in 30 minutes
Essays aren't hard to start... they feel hard because you're staring at a blank page trying to be profound. EssayVelocity guides you through targeted questions to pull out the stories you already have. Your voice, your work. Zero AI detection risk.
Beyond the Classroom
HappyHumanist
Heartbreak, happiness, and the art of living
A happiness course seemed like dessert-mode education. But real life is not dessert. HappyHumanist braids ancient philosophy with contemporary science, poetry with empirical research. Ten weeks of guided exploration through texts that will break you apart and build you back... plus daily practices drawn from centuries of wisdom about character formation.
From the Founder
For thirty years I've taught in the humanities... Homer and Greek tragedy, Joyce and Woolf. Over that span, something has unmistakably deteriorated. I used to assign Greek tragedy at a play a day. Now it's a play a week.
The dominant response has been elegiac. We mourn attention spans and romanticize slow reading. But slow reading isn't resistance... it's capitulation. Big books require velocity: sustained forward motion inside complexity without fatigue.
These tools are pedagogy, not product. I'm giving most of them away because the protocols I developed to help my students should be available to anyone willing to train.
— Professor of Literary Studies, The New School. Former Yale. Ultramarathon runner.
The big books aren't going anywhere.
It's time we finished them.