The Human Premium — Field Journal

Some of your work just got cheap. Some of it just got rare. Most people can't tell which is which.

The Human Premium makes the case for which is which. The Field Journal is the thirteen weeks that follow it.

What it is

A thirteen-week guided planner for the part of your work a machine can't do: focus, judgment, empathy, conscientious effort. Coil-bound and lay-flat on cream stock, built to sit open on a desk rather than live on a shelf.

What's in it

• A thirteen-week progression, one week at a time, each week building on the last
• Guided prompts that turn a week's idea into something you actually do
• A short daily log if you want to work that way, plus space for reflection, planning, and honest self-assessment
• Thirteen points that each stand on their own, so a week you don't use costs you nothing on the ones you do
• Original illustrations

What's not in it

• Not a productivity system. No inbox rules, no time-blocking method, no app to install.
• Not a replacement for the book. It assumes you've read the argument and want to practise it.
• Not a daily obligation. One sitting a week is the whole ask; the daily log is there if you want it.

How long it takes

A few minutes a week — ten at the outside — on that week's one point: what worked, what didn't, where you want to change something. Use the daily log on top of that if it suits you; that's your choice, not a requirement. Thirteen weeks, start to finish, with clear entry points and defined stopping points, because real work doesn't pause for a journal.

What you'll have at the end

Thirteen weeks of your own written record: where your attention went, what wore it down, and the three practices you chose to keep. The journal doesn't ask you to adopt all thirteen — nobody applies everything they learn the first time through. It asks you to find the few that hold for the way you work, and to carry those forward.

What it costs you

Ten minutes a week for thirteen weeks, and the honesty of writing down what you actually did rather than what you meant to do. That second cost is the real one.

Why both

The book tells you which of your work just got rare. The journal is thirteen weeks of getting better at that part. One is read in an evening. The other takes a quarter.

The ceiling was never the machine. It was never you, either.

Our promise: made to order in small batches — nothing sits in a warehouse. If anything arrives damaged, misprinted, or wrong, it's a free replacement or a full refund, your choice, no need to ship anything back. Full details · why we build it this way