Personal — Domain Index

Focused catalog of the 18 articles in wiki/personal/. Cross-project consumers (voice-and-style work, essay drafting, fatherhood/identity content, Deep Ambition book work) should read this first before drilling into specific pages. For the full KB map, see INDEX.

Family, philosophy, meaning

• family-and-personal-history — The Shen family immigration, Anping's life and school committee win, Shixin Mao (gymnastics coach), Amy, Amanda (how they met, proposal, marriage), becoming a father, three generations of emotional growth
• fatherhood-and-commitment — Ashton (born January 2025) as material for Jason's 2025-onward writing on freedom, masculinity, commitment; Kierkegaard's "dizziness of freedom," fatherhood as peak masculinity, Bianchi's ATUS data on modern American fathers
• narrative-identity — McAdams's narrative identity theory: life-story model, redemption vs. contamination sequences, life-story interview method, generativity — grounds authentic-pride-patterns coaching exercise
• sense-of-purpose — Bidirectional relationship between purpose and physical activity (Yemiscigil & Vlaev 2021); purpose as built through commitment, not discovered through introspection
• personal-philosophy — Through-lines: bias toward action, earned confidence, environment over willpower, community as infrastructure, the Friendly Ambitious Nerd OS
• travel-and-exploration — Southeast Asia, Malaysia, India, Peru, Greece, Brooklyn; travel as career inflection point
• civic-engagement-and-government — Presidential Innovation Fellows, Anping's local politics, civic frameworks, walking-as-public-health proposal

Resilience

• resilience — Workplace resilience research, personal resilience philosophy, transitions model, Campbell (2018) team resilience in extreme teams, the newsletter's core theme
• resilience-research-foundations — Academic foundations: Masten's Ordinary Magic, Wilmshurst on college students with ADHD, Rodin & Langer nursing-home perceived-control, Franco & Zimbardo everyday heroism

Writing, voice, craft

• writing-craft — Writing as thinking tool, craft principles (specificity, voice, clarity), getting published, book projects, publishing economics, Clark & Tizon on Hayakawa's ladder of abstraction
• jason-voice-and-style — Craft reference for Jason's long-form non-fiction voice, observed across ~100 newsletters: opening anecdote, the reversal move, short declarative hammers, light research grounding
• paul-graham-influence — PG's essays as a foundational influence on Jason's intellectual architecture. Analysis of PG's major essays + distilled craft principles. Meta-essay "How to Write and Think Like PG" for a YC book project.
• creativity-and-artistic-practice — How creativity operates: artistic brain rewiring, the overkill approach, ideation frameworks, blocking beliefs, money-vs-meaning dilemma
• public-speaking — Speech opening taxonomy (Elephant/Owl/Monkey), viral content patterns, building a speaking career

Book projects

• book-projects-arc — Evolution of book concepts: Resilience Rules (2021) → three-way decision with Rachel Jepsen (2023: Memoir / Pivot / Founders in Transition) → The Path to Pivot (2024) → Wide Ambition (2026 hint with Tony Stubblebine interview)
• resilience-rules-archive — The 2021 book proposal that didn't get published, preserved for its 4-skill framework (Respond / Restore / Reflect / Rebuild), Eastern philosophy scaffolding, and ideas that live on in current coaching
• deep-ambition-book-thesis — Living outline for Jason's next book. Three stages (Default → Shallow → Deep), five dimensions (breadth, relationships, self-knowledge, time horizons, growth edges), Part I–III structure, research backbone, candidate profiles, open tensions.
• deep-ambition-sources-to-acquire — Tracking document for primary sources to obtain (tiered by priority). Waldinger, Vaillant, Kegan, Ryan & Deci, Kasser, Ryff, Waterman, Callard, Ibarra, Damon, McAdams, Arthur Brooks, David Brooks, Frankl, Hershfield, Sheldon, Linville, Hobfoll, Chang.

Related domains

Voice and style work pairs with essay-craft sources under outputs/ and with the voice2 / boring-essay skills externally. The research backbone of Deep Ambition lives in frameworks-index (eudaimonia, SDT, Kegan, Harvard Study). Fatherhood-as-identity threads into identity-index. Full map: INDEX.