| name | strategic-reading |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| description | Read a book, article, transcript, or case study through the lens of a specific strategic problem you're facing. Produces an applied playbook that maps the source onto the problem and gives short/medium/long-term recommendations. NOT for general book summaries. |
| triggers | ["strategic reading","read this through the lens of","apply this to my problem","what can I learn from this about","extract a playbook from"] |
| mutating | true |
| writes_pages | true |
| writes_to | ["concepts/","projects/"] |
| brain_first | exempt |
strategic-reading — Applied Analysis from Source Texts
Convention: see conventions/quality.md for
citation rules (every recommendation cites the source) and back-link
enforcement.
Convention: see _brain-filing-rules.md —
output files by primary subject (concepts/ for general strategy, projects/
for problem-tied playbooks).
What this is
Take a large text PLUS a specific strategic problem, produce analysis that
maps the text's insights onto the problem. This is not book summarization.
This is reading with a mission.
Where book-mirror personalizes a book to the reader's whole life,
strategic-reading personalizes it to ONE current problem. Same shape
(extract → analyze → mirror), different lens.
Canonical example: a power-dynamics history book read against a
specific gatekeeper-vs-incumbent fight, producing a tactical analysis that
maps the book's playbook onto the situation with counter-tactics and a
short/medium/long-term playbook.
Inputs
- Source text — book (EPUB/PDF), article, transcript, historical case
study, any large document.
- Strategic problem — the specific situation to analyze through the
lens of the text. The user describes this explicitly or it's obvious
from context.
Output
The brain page is the artifact. PDF is a rendering, never primary.
Brain page structure
# [Source Title] — Applied to [Problem]
> One-paragraph executive summary: how the source maps to the situation,
> the key insight, the bottom line.
## The Core Parallel
How the source's central dynamic maps onto the user's situation.
## Chapter / Section Triage
For each major section of the source:
- 2-3 sentence summary of what it says
- Relevance to the problem: HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW
- One directly applicable quote (if any)
## The Source's Playbook
The author's framework, tactics, or strategies — organized as:
- What the protagonist DID (tactics)
- What WORKED and why
- What FAILED and why
- What OPPONENTS did that was effective
Specific moves from the source that map to the user's situation:
What to DO (with source evidence)
What to AVOID (with source evidence)
What to WATCH FOR (warning signs from the source)
The synthesis — actionable recommendations:
(this week / this month)
(this quarter)
(this year+)
Direct quotes from the source that are devastatingly relevant.
Maximum 5-10. Quality over quantity.
Links to relevant brain pages (related concepts, related projects).
