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Credit Drift Toolkit

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For when an idea you started gradually becomes associated with everyone but you. The toolkit has two parts: an Idea Map that follows an idea from the moment you first put it forward through the point where it becomes shared work, flagging where credit is most likely to slip along the way. And a Situation Guide with 10 real scenarios for when drift has already started — what’s actually happening, your options, and the exact wording to reconnect yourself to the work. Built around the pattern named in Square Peg Brief No. 005, with both prevention and recovery covered.

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Dating & New Relationship Survival Guide

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Twenty real dating and early-relationship moments — the profile that doesn't sound like a sales pitch, reading mixed signals, meeting the family, the first real disagreement — each with ready-to-use language for square pegs who'd rather show up as themselves than perform a version of dating that doesn't fit. Nothing to memorize. Just the words, when you need them.

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Quiet Loud Toolkit

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For the moment your thinking is happening quietly and the room reads it as disengagement. Three parts: a Pattern Library that names the mechanics of being misread, a Situation Playbook with 10 real scenarios and ready language, and open Reference Notes to scan anytime. Built around the exact pattern named in Square Peg Brief No. 002 — this is where you go once naming it isn't enough.

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Meeting Survival Guides – Complete Series

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All three Meeting Survival guides, 60 scenarios total: what to say when you're speaking (Series 1), what to do with everything happening in your head before, during, and after (Series 2), and how to read and steer the room when no one's officially in charge (Series 3). Everything a meeting actually puts you through, covered — at a better price than buying them one at a time.

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Arguments & Difficult Conversations Survival Guide

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Twenty real conflict moments that happen both at work and in social settings — being interrupted mid-point, receiving harsh feedback, the conversation that goes off track, knowing when to let it go — each with the situation, what makes it hard, the unspoken rule underneath, and ready-to-use language. For disagreeing, setting boundaries, and having the hard talk without losing yourself or the relationship in the process.

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Meeting Survival Guide_Series 2: Managing the Mental Load of Meetings

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20 scenarios organized across three phases — Before the Meeting (the anticipatory spiral, rehearsing responses at midnight), During the Meeting (self-monitoring while you talk, reading neutral faces as judgment), and After the Meeting (replaying one moment on loop, the energy crash nobody warned you about). Each broken into the situation, what makes it hard, the unspoken rule, and Square Peg Moves — this time mindsets and internal language as much as things to say out loud.

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Meeting Survival Guide_Series 1: Speaking Up in Meetings

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20 real meeting moments — including The Interruption, The Hot Seat, The Idea Theft, Disagreeing Up, The Ambush Question, Owning the Miss — each broken into the situation, what makes it hard, the unspoken rule underneath it, and Square Peg Moves: ready-to-use language for that exact moment. For getting your point across clearly the first time, not the version you think of on the drive home.

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