strategic-reading

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

1. Source text — book (EPUB/PDF), article, transcript, historical case study, any large document.
2. 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).