Cognitive Protocol — Active
Reclaim Your Mind.
In an age of self-exploitation and exhausted attention, FOCUS OS is a convivial tool — enhancing YOUR capacity for deep thought, not replacing it.
Your mind is an ecology. Feed it accordingly.
30-day unconditional money-back guarantee
You are not burned out because you are weak. You are burned out because the system is designed this way.
Byung-Chul Han calls it the 'achievement society' — where the exploiter and the exploited are the same person. You don't need an external enemy. You carry the work camp inside you.
The Violence of Positivity
Not threats from the outside — but excess from within. Overproduction, overachievement, overcommunication. The 'unlimited Can' that exhausts rather than liberates.
Counter-Productivity
Ivan Illich warned: beyond a threshold, every tool produces the opposite of its stated aim. Your productivity apps are making you less productive.
Hyperattention
Multitasking is a regression to animal survival mode. Deep, contemplative attention — the kind that builds culture and philosophy — is being extinguished.
“Everyone carries a work camp inside. One is simultaneously prisoner and guard. The achievement-subject exploits itself until it burns out.”
— Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society (2010)
The antidote is not more productivity. It is an ecology of mind.
Gregory Bateson taught us that ideas form ecologies — they interact, evolve, and shape each other like species in a habitat. The quality of your thinking depends on the quality of connections between your ideas.
FOCUS OS is not another productivity tool. It is a convivial instrument — as Ivan Illich envisioned — that enhances your personal capacity without creating dependency. Tools that work WITH you, not FOR you.
Convivial Tools. Deep Attention. Ecological Thinking.
Intellectual Foundations
Three thinkers who shaped how FOCUS OS approaches the mind.
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han, 2010Han reveals that modern exhaustion isn't from oppression but from self-exploitation. The shift from 'should' to 'can' creates an illusion of freedom while enslaving us to achievement. Deep contemplative attention — vita contemplativa — is the only escape.
"The achievement-subject finds itself fighting with itself. It is simultaneously victim and perpetrator, master and slave."
Ecology of Mind
Gregory Bateson, 1972Bateson saw that ideas interact like species in an ecosystem. Context determines meaning, circular causality replaces linear thinking, and 'the map is not the territory.' The quality of our thinking determines the quality of our reality.
"The essence of all our problems is bad thinking, and the only medicine for that is better thinking."
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich, 1973Illich identified two watersheds in every institution: first the tool serves humanity, then it enslaves it. True 'convivial' tools enhance personal energy under personal control — they amplify YOUR capacity, never replace it.
"People need new tools to work with rather than tools that 'work' for them."
What's Inside the System
Not more information. Better thinking infrastructure — designed for deep attention, not hyperattention.
Mental Models
100+ frameworks for analysis, decision-making, and execution. From first principles to systems thinking — an ecology of interconnected ideas, not isolated facts.
Visualized Wisdom
Every model presented as professional infographic cards. Designed for contemplative absorption, not frantic scanning. Quality over quantity.
Deep Attention Protocol
90-minute focused sessions aligned with ultradian rhythms. Reclaim vita contemplativa — the deep, focused attention that hyperattention culture has stolen.
Synthesis Journal
Build your own ecology of ideas. Connect insights across domains and watch them evolve into something uniquely yours — a personal epistemology.
How It Works
Initialize Protocol
Activate your access. Enter a system designed for deep attention, not information overload.
Cultivate Daily
One curated insight per day. Not a flood — a deliberate practice of contemplative absorption.
Build Your Ecology
Connect ideas across domains. Let your mental models evolve like species in a habitat — each strengthening the whole.
Value Architecture
Daily Wisdom (365 curated insights/yr)$29
Mental Models Library (100+ frameworks)$69
Visualized Wisdom Cards$39
Deep Attention Protocol Timer$19
Synthesis Journal$12
Community Intelligence$25
Total Standalone Value$193
$3.990/mo
₺133/day — the cost of 20 specialty coffees per month
Stop exploiting yourself. Start thinking for yourself.
The achievement society has turned you into your own taskmaster. FOCUS OS gives you the tools to think differently — not faster, but deeper.
30-day unconditional money-back guarantee
Regulatory Note: This is a cognitive support protocol. It optimizes mental infrastructure.