Root Access
Reprogramming the Nervous System for Infinite Leverage. Fifteen chapters on why people sabotage the changes they want most, and a working system for stopping it.
Self-sabotage isn't a character flaw. It's a mechanism.
Your self-image works like a thermostat. It's set to a baseline, and when you push past it (more money, a leaner body, a better relationship) it pulls you back to what it thinks is normal. That's why the diet ends on Thursday and the savings plan ends in March. You're not broken. You're running old code.
The book puts several schools that usually stay separate into one system you can actually run: Maxwell Maltz's Psycho-Cybernetics, modern work on how habits get wired into the nervous system, Stoic philosophy from Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, and Naval Ravikant's thinking on leverage.
Five protocols.
- The Three Interrupts. Catch the impulse loop in real time and break it before it runs.
- The Root Emotion Locator. Trace a sabotage pattern back to where it was learned.
- The Stoic Firewall. Stop spending energy on what you don't control.
- Productize Yourself. Turn what you know and do into leverage that works without you.
- The Implementation Sequence. The order of operations that makes the change stick.
Under the same constraints it's written for.
Five hundred words a day for six months, written around night shifts, a mechanical trading system, a physique cut, and being a father. It wasn't written from a quiet cabin. It was written inside the kind of overloaded life it's meant to help with.
Kindle edition, 47,000 words, published December 2025.