RAON Atlas
PEOPLE
PRACTICE
PURPOSE
A MORE INTERESTING TOMORROW
FIELD INSTITUTE
FOR HUMAN CAPABILITY

THE RAON
ATLAS

AN EVOLVING RECORD OF WHAT
WE’VE LEARNED BY DOING THE WORK.
Observations. Experiments. Practical guides.
Conversations. Things that worked. Things that
didn’t. A map of the territory.
EXPLORE THE ATLAS →
RAON / ATLAS
MAP OF RELATIONSHIPS
NOT A DESTINATION.
A WAY OF ORIENTING.
IDEAS / PEOPLE / PRACTICES / PLACES
CONNECTED OVER TIME.
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THE TERRITORY

DIFFERENT PATHS. SAME TERRITORY.
01
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EFFORT

What happens when something becomes difficult?

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02
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ATTENTION

What gets noticed, ignored, amplified or lost?

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03
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RECOVERY

What allows another useful effort?

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04
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ENDURANCE

What lets us stay with something?

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05
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STRENGTH

What are we actually building?

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06
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PERCEPTION

How do we experience what we’re doing?

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07
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SKILL

What changes with practice?

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08
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BEHAVIOR

How do we make it stick?

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CURRENT FIELDWORK

REAL QUESTIONS. REAL CONDITIONS.
FIELDWORK 03

HOW TO
FUCKING SLEEP

Circadian rhythm, recovery
and a more usable you.

RECOVERY / SLEEP / PRACTICAL GUIDE→
FIELDWORK 04

BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO
UNFUCKING YOUR GUT

Food. Bacteria. Behavior.
Context.

NUTRITION / BEHAVIOR / PRACTICAL GUIDE→
FIELDWORK 05

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
YOU REMOVE THE CLOCK?

Time. Perception. Effort.
Something else.

PERCEPTION / ENDURANCE / INVESTIGATION→

THE FIELD, TOGETHER

CAPABILITY IS NOT ONLY AN INDIVIDUAL PROJECT.
FIELD STUDY / EN-DURANCE / ONGOING
EN-
DURANCE
A study of staying with something after it stops being interesting.

Not just endurance as output. Endurance as attention, interpretation, pacing, uncertainty and other people. A question we can investigate because we are actually in the room doing it together.

TRAIN → NOTICE → TALK → RECORD → TRY AGAIN
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PEOPLE / PRACTICE

THE ROOM
IS PART OF
THE METHOD.

Who you train beside changes what gets noticed, attempted, tolerated and remembered.

FROM THE ROOM

WE CARE ABOUT WHAT TRAINING DOES TO YOUR EXPERIENCE, NOT ONLY WHAT IT DOES TO YOUR NUMBERS.

CONVERSATIONS / FIELD DAYS / SHARED EXPERIMENTS / THINGS WE LEARN TOGETHER

CONNECTIONS

SLEEP
RECOVERY
ATTENTION
EFFORT
PERFORMANCE
NOT LINEAR.
ALWAYS RELATED.
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RECENTLY ADDED

THE MAP KEEPS GROWING.
021Perception of Effort Without External TimePERCEPTION / ENDURANCE / FIELDWORKSEP 12, 2026→
020Sleep, Light and the Problem of “Recovery”RECOVERY / CIRCADIAN / PRACTICAL GUIDESEP 04, 2026→
019When More Information Makes Training WorseATTENTION / BEHAVIOR / ESSAYAUG 28, 2026→
018The Social Side of EffortBEHAVIOR / COMMUNITY / CONVERSATIONAUG 11, 2026→
THIS MAP IS INCOMPLETE.
IT SHOULD BE.
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KEEP EXPLORING →