Curated Reading Paths

The Obsidian Syllabus.

Choose your category. Begin a study path. Every reading path is built like a university syllabus — structured tiers, serious analysis, and discussion questions that reward independent thinking.

How the syllabus works

Step 01

Choose a Category

Eight disciplines, each with its own body of knowledge, debates, and canonical texts. Pick the one that matches where your mind lives.

Step 02

Begin a Study Path

Each category contains focused syllabi — specific reading paths that go deep on one angle of the larger discipline. Start with the one that pulls you.

Step 03

Work Through the Tiers

Every course moves from accessible entry points to demanding texts. Read in order or start where you are. Discussion questions close each course.

Categories
Power & Society

Power & Society

Politics, institutions, economics, and the structural mechanics of how civilizations rise, decay, and are contested.

1 course available

Conflict & War

Conflict & War

The causes, conduct, and human cost of armed conflict — from the World Wars to the Middle East to East Asia.

1 course available

Mind & Self

Mind & Self

Psychology, emotional intelligence, parenting, re-parenting, and the inner architecture of becoming.

Coming soon

Technology & the Future

Technology & the Future

Artificial intelligence, surveillance, bioethics, and the philosophical questions that follow when machines start to think.

1 course available

Story & Myth

Story & Myth

Mythology, folklore, archetypes, and the oral traditions that have always carried the knowledge civilization refuses to write down.

Coming soon

The Cosmos & Meaning

The Cosmos & Meaning

Astrology, philosophy, religion, and the human need to find pattern and purpose in the structure of things.

Coming soon

Community

Community

Sociology, group dynamics, and how the environments we inhabit — small towns, institutions, networks — quietly shape who we become.

Coming soon

Genre Fiction

Genre Fiction

Fantasy, romantasy, and dystopia treated with the intellectual seriousness they have always deserved and rarely received.

1 course available

All Study Paths
Genre Fiction
Power & Society
Conflict & War
Technology & the Future
Mind & Self
Psychology MS-101 — Parenting While Re-Parenting Yourself Coming Soon
Story & Myth
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The Cosmos & Meaning
Study paths coming soon.
Community
Study paths coming soon.

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