The Cocoon Protocol
The Protocol Library · October 21, 2026
When seven independent people have told you the same thing about yourself, the Cocoon begins: step back and ask three questions. Is this my tail? Did I choose it? Do I want to keep it?
The 80/20 Gap: What You Need Most and Why You Have Never Asked for It Directly
Mindset · October 9, 2026
A rainy parking lot, a coat that wasn't worn, and the gap between the need you feel most and the one you actually ask for.
What Are You Looking At?
The Four Armies · October 6, 2026
Your life is a rope bridge. Individual. Suspended. Built one plank at a time.
The Seven Tails Protocol
Mindset · September 26, 2026
When seven independent people have told you the same thing about yourself, the evidence has crossed a threshold; a protocol for what to do before that point and after it.
Feed What You Love
Mindset · November 5, 2025
A great-grandmother's kitchen on the South Side of Chicago, what it taught RK about food and people, and the recipe he finally arrived at.
How Is The View? Protocol #2
Trauma · December 5, 2022
Where your view of the world came from, who programmed it before you were born, and the question that starts the work of choosing your own.
Don't Compare Hells
Recovery · November 9, 2022
Why a thrown fork and a childhood of abuse are not a contest, and the first protocol: find out whether someone is sharing or discussing before you say a word.
Here's The Situation
Mindset · November 1, 2022
A conversation over buffalo wings about a marriage that stopped being fun, and the question that gets at what 'happy' actually meant.