Library
The library
An expanding library of units. Ready means a parent can run the sitting tonight. In the forge means the catalog is honest about what is still being written.
28 ready · 1 in the forge
29 units total
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Autonomous AI
Education in the Age of AI
Tool vs person, try first, fluent error, permissions, privacy, a full sitting with a guide.
6 sittings · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: A Tool, Not a Person → - Ready
Autonomous AI
Building a Week with an Agent
Eval harnesses, memory hygiene, permissions audit, and when to turn the agent off.
4 sittings · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Category Error → - Ready
Critical Thinking
How to Think
Claim and check, steel-man, what would change your mind.
3 sittings · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: A Claim Is a Sentence You Can Check → - Ready
Critical Thinking
Bias, Frames, and Missing Voices
Whose data trained the room you are standing in.
3 sittings · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: Claim, Evidence, Check → - Ready
Wisdom & Philosophy
Character — The Stoics
Epictetus, Marcus, Seneca — same arc, four depths. Circle, citadel, time.
3 sittings (full booklets live on smfwisdomforge.com) · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Circle You Control → - Ready
Wisdom & Philosophy
Zeno — The Founder
Virtue as the only good. Shipwreck as curriculum. Seeds of reason, the world city, living according to nature, and the founder's legacy.
6 sittings · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Circle You Control → - Ready
Wisdom & Philosophy
How the Greeks Thought
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Pre-Socratics — question, form, cause. From method to metaphysics.
10 sittings · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Boy with a Borrowed Name → - Ready
Wisdom & Philosophy
Faith & Reason
Church Fathers through Aquinas. Belief that can think. Parent theological humility notes.
10 sittings · emerging · adult
First sitting: Prohairesis → - Ready
Wisdom & Philosophy
The Intellectual History of AI
Turing's question, Searle's Chinese Room, Wiener's genie. The three ideas every AI user should know.
3 sittings · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Boy with a Borrowed Name → - Ready
Mathematics
Estimate Before the Oracle
A number in the head before a tool in the hand. Little arc: guess, path, catch a wild number, two ways, about, then the machine.
6 sittings (little); flagship all bands · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: Guess, Then Count → - Ready
Mathematics
Show the Path
Proof as a sentence other people can walk.
6 sittings · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: What Is a Proof? → - Ready
Science
Hypothesis Before Search
The universe is not a chatbot. Write the guess first.
1 flagship sitting · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Scale Versus the Mouth → - Ready
Science
Measure Twice
Error, units, and the temptation to ask a model instead of a scale.
6 sittings · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Scale Versus the Mouth → - Ready
English
You Write It
Draft by hand. The guide is an editor who asks, not an author who signs your name.
1 flagship sitting · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: Tell It In Your Own Words → - Ready
English
Rhetoric in the Age of Fluency
Ethos, pathos, logos — and the machine that fakes all three.
6 sittings · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: Who Earned the Floor? → - Ready
History
Source Before Summary
A paragraph from then, before anyone — human or model — compresses it.
1 flagship sitting · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: A Piece From Then → - Ready
History
Citizens — Constitution & Declaration
Primary text, not storybook propaganda. A republic is a moral practice.
4–8 weeks · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Words Before the Story → - Ready
History
Magna Carta — The Charter and the Chain
A feudal contract that became the rule of law. The chain from Runnymede to your rights.
6 sittings · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Words Before the Story → - Ready
History
The Constitution — Designed, Not Extracted
Power against power, the losers' legacy, the three-fifths sin, and the amendment chain. How the Constitution grows.
6 sittings · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Words Before the Story → - Ready
History
The Declaration — The Promise and the Gap
Self-evident truths, the right of revolution, and the gap between the promise and the practice. The chain from 1776 to today.
6 sittings · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Words Before the Story → - In the forge
History
The Federalist — The Brief That Sold the Machine
A New York sales campaign, not the Constitution. Faction vs Brutus, ambition, judgment without sword, the lost argument for a bill of rights, and the civic chain.
6 sittings · young · emerging · adult
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History
The Fourteenth Amendment — The Answer After the War
The Constitution answering Fed 54 and Dred Scott. Section 1 in four clauses. Gettysburg as speech, not instrument. Ugly clauses named. Writing is not keeping.
6 sittings · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: The Words Before the Story → - Ready
English
Stories and Voices — Letters for Little Thinkers
Tell it in your own words. The story behind a real thing. Hear it and say it back.
3 sittings · little
First sitting: Tell It In Your Own Words → - Ready
Art
Hand Before Generate
Make something imperfect. Then look at what a generator averages away.
1 flagship sitting · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: Looking Longer Than the Feed → - Ready
Art
Taste Is a Muscle
Looking longer than the feed. Copy from life, not from a prompt.
6 sittings · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: Looking Longer Than the Feed → - Ready
Computer Science
Specify the Agent
Soul, tools, refuse-list. Autonomy is a design choice.
1 flagship sitting · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: Rules for a Helper → - Ready
Computer Science
Eval or It Did Not Happen
Synthetic tests, CI gates, eval-driven development, and the full eval cycle. The kit's EVALS.md is the model.
4 sittings · emerging · adult
First sitting: Write the Fake Problem First → - Ready
World Languages
Say It Yourself
The mouth has to move. A model can drill; it cannot be understood for you.
1 flagship sitting · little · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: Your Mouth Has to Move → - Ready
World Languages
A Second Tongue, a Second Mind
Conversation ladders, not subtitle crutches.
ongoing · young · emerging · adult
First sitting: Climb the Ladder →