Free Guides
A small library of short guides distilling the ideas at the heart of this work.
Each one is built around a single question: how do we read the moment we are living through, and what does history have to say about it? Download any guide free, keep it forever.
The Cycle We’re In
Five Lessons from History About Economic Collapse and Renewal
Every generation believes its crises are unique. They rarely are. This guide distils five timeless lessons from history’s turning points, revealing what happens when systems falter, and what endures when they do.
What’s Inside- When Progress Becomes Religion
- The Fallacy of Infinite Growth
- The Middle Class Mirage
- The Psychology of Collapse
- What Survives Every Time
Echoes of Empire
A Short History of Repeating Mistakes
From Rome to Silicon Valley, the story is the same: power believes it is permanent. This guide traces four civilisations to reveal how each rose, overreached, and collapsed under its own certainty.
What’s Inside- The Roman Lesson: Infrastructure Without Integrity
- The British Lesson: Commerce as Control
- The American Lesson: Growth as Destiny
- The Digital Lesson: Empire Without Geography
- The Human Lesson: Why We Keep Repeating
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