Every idea the course covers as four slide decks, grouped by subject rather than by the week it happens to fall in.
The lectures and crits are listed by week, which is the right order to do the course in and the wrong order to look anything up in. This page is the same material as four decks, grouped by subject.
Each deck is the short version. The claim, the study under it, and the place the evidence stops. Use them to revise, to find the thing you half-remember, or to hand somebody the argument in five minutes. The pages behind each deck carry the full brief.
Catching yourself#
The symptom, and the first four weeks. No framework, just the thing you already recognise.
Rumination versus reflection, why worry is hard to put down, and the exits people actually use.
Behind it. The layered “OK” · The reveal · Why the spiral feels like work · How you stopped
Why a loop repeats#
The course’s central claim and the evidence under it. Incubation during undemanding tasks, attention residue, and the phone break that measures like no break at all.
Includes the three things the course refuses to claim, and the point at which the argument becomes a hunch.
Behind it. The empty slot · The blank that isn’t · When it helps
Making room#
Building the conditions where a thought can finish. Ten minutes, half speed, a sandwich in silence, plus what actually helps under load.
Carries the two most uncomfortable findings on the syllabus. Meditation’s adverse-effect rates, and the study saying walk faster.
Behind it. Ten minutes, guided · Deliberately slow · The sandwich · The nap, the coffee and the sweet treat
Aiming it#
Pointing the same machinery somewhere useful, not waiting to feel better first, and where every technique here actually came from.
Ends on a framework that disagrees with this course, left unresolved.
Behind it. Nothing here is that serious · Aim it at the good · Act anyway · Borrowed and renamed
Still open#
Not a topic so much as an admission. Some weeks are deliberately unbooked. After the anonymous thread the cohort votes on which student-reported techniques the class tries, and those become crits in the back half of semester. You can also propose a lecture topic on the forum and have it voted up.
So there will be a fifth deck, and what goes in it is not up to the teaching staff. Which is either fitting for a course called Unfinished Thinking or an excuse. Both, probably.