Build Your AttentionOS: One System for Work, Life, Learning, and Side Quests

For people who create and ship: engineers, designers, PMs, technical writers, solo operators, entrepreneurs.

Mid-level engineers use it to become visible. Senior engineers use it to protect Staff-level work instead of shipping features all week.

Managers whose week is mostly coordination won't get the whole system - it assumes creative output.

If your current system reliably decides what to work on, tracks impact, and connects to learning - keep it.

If you have scattered tools and half-finished setups restarted every few months - that pattern is what this course fixes.

If you have one trusted tool but no single decision layer - AttentionOS sits above it.

Yes. The course builds execution - picking what to work on, getting it shipped. It doesn't assume promotion is the goal.

Students use it for side projects, book chapters, business ideas, and proposals that keep getting postponed.

No. AttentionOS is built from scratch in the course - no prior knowledge needed.

Tried and abandoned systems before?
You'll recognize the breakage points faster.

Starting from scratch?
You'll succeed, but you need more time to absorb the model.

What matters most: can you name which parts of your week keep getting dropped? That's the prerequisite.

Other systems failed me in two ways: they demanded rituals I couldn't keep, or broke under real pressure, turned into dumpsters.

AttentionOS is built for the breakage. Maintenance is signal-driven, not scheduled. Sprint length adapts to the work. The system keeps working when you are back on track.

It scales with the data you put into it.

No fixed cadence. The system has built-in signals: inbox backs up, sprint finishes, something feels off. You respond to those signals instead of running scheduled reviews.

Scheduled reviews fail because life doesn't run on a schedule. Signal-driven maintenance holds up because it matches how your attention works.

The system is taught in Workflowy because it handles the structure best. You'll get a starter template to copy.

The system is tool-agnostic - runs in plain text in Workflowy, Notion, Apple Notes, or the filesystem. Replaces the task manager and notes app. Specialized tools (text editors, spreadsheets, code) stay separate.

Live demos use Workflowy.

No. AttentionOS scales with your work.

Start with 5 basic sections (Inbox, Next Steps, People, Resources, Archive). Add Active Projects + Areas & Activities in two weeks.

Grow into the full 10+ over time.

Watch the Lightning Lesson to start with the basic setup.

These are different layers.

AttentionOS decides what deserves your attention this sprint. AI tools help you execute once you've decided.

The course touches on AI-assisted workflows (capture, task breakdown, impact notes) where relevant, but AI integration isn't the primary focus. You bring your own stack.

About 5-6 hours per week. Two 90-minute live sessions, 40 minutes of reading, and about an hour of building your system using your actual work.

You're not adding work on top of your job. You're reorganizing how you do the work you already have.

Sessions are recorded.

But the value is in building your system live with feedback - recordings don't replace that.

If you know that you will miss more than 2 sessions of the course, wait for the next cohort.

The system you build during live sessions is the product, not the recording.

Yes. Invoices formatted for L&D reimbursement are provided.

Professional development budgets usually cover this. Worth asking your manager or HR before paying out of pocket!

If you attend the first two weeks, build the systems, and feel it's not working, email me.

I'd rather figure out why than keep your money. The founding cohort is small enough for me to give individual attention to anyone who's stuck.

You leave with a running system and the Comeback Protocol (Week 5) - what to do if you abandon it for weeks or months. The system holds up without me in the loop.

Lifetime Maven access to all course materials stays.
Tag me in the Maven Student Portal with a question and I'll respond.