What we’re
working on.
Projects, questions, and things taking shape. A working map of where Raon is going.
Explore the work ↓One question, taking shape.
01 / A continuing investigationDURANCE
What lets us
stay with something?
Endurance reaches beyond output: into pacing, uncertainty, attention, and the people beside us. What allows useful effort to continue as the conditions change?
Where the question opens up
Remove the clock and the task changes. Put someone beside you and the effort changes again. Capacity matters; so does the way a situation becomes readable. This study brings those questions into the same room.
And, elsewhere in the work.
Several interests. Shared ground.
02 / People & practiceThe room is part
of the method.
Who you train beside changes what gets noticed, attempted, tolerated, and remembered. An environment can make a different kind of participation possible.
What could someone attempt here that their ordinary environments make difficult?
Remove the clock.
Different reading.
What happens to effort when time stops telling us how to feel about it?
Open the question ↓When more information
makes training worse.
Monitoring can become another demand. How much attention does a practice give back—and how much does it consume?
Follow the question ↓Back to
everyday life.
Some questions lead into the ordinary conditions that make another useful effort possible.
How to fucking sleep.
Circadian rhythm, recovery, and a more usable you.
↗02Unfucking your gut.
Food, bacteria, behavior. Context matters.
↗Follow a connection.
A working index / Open a question01Endurance ↔ Perception
A clock supplies an interpretation before the next interval begins. Change what someone knows about duration and you change the question they are working through.
Find the work in the Archive ↗02Attention ↔ Recovery
Training occupies attention as well as time. The recovery question includes whether the practice leaves someone with more room to engage in the rest of their life.
Explore the ideas in Fieldwork ↗03People ↔ Possibility
The room helps establish what feels ordinary to attempt. What happens after someone tries, struggles, or changes their mind becomes part of what the next person sees as possible.
Find a way into the practice ↗04Strength ↔ Skill
More weight creates one kind of progress. A wider range of situations in which you can use your strength creates another. Practice keeps those questions in conversation.
Explore training in the Archive ↗