The complete starter collection

Open
THE BOX.

For the afternoon when you want to make something, but “something” is as far as you’ve got.

Eight field guides and activity packs, plus a Start Here guide to help you pick one. Follow an old interest, try an odd idea or finally make the cheap version.

One ZIP download · Nine PDFs · One-time purchase
$139 regular bundle price · $175 if the eight products are purchased individually

Everything included

Actual tools.
Choose your own order.

These are compact working guides, not a stack of lectures. Read a little. Try something. Make a note if it helps.

Find a starting point

Spark Finder Companion

Spot the things you keep doing for the sheer pleasure of doing them. Then give one of those interests somewhere to go.

Six-page PDF companion

Follow an old clue

Play Archaeology

You remember the toy. What did you actually do with it? Build worlds? Make voices? Change every rule? That part is worth another look.

Six-page PDF field guide

Revisit an unfinished idea

Signal Recovery

Some dreams died. Some are still transmitting. Figure out which is which before you rearrange your life.

Five-page PDF workbook

Get something made

Make the Cheap Version

The idea has been in your head long enough. Give it ninety minutes, the tools you already have and permission to look a little rough.

Five-page PDF workbook

Make room for your own stuff

The Curator Trap

Love other people’s worlds. Just stop spending every ounce of creative energy inside them. Keep the shelf. Add a workbench.

Four-page PDF workbook

Get past a technical barrier

AI Playground

You know what you want to make. Now work out where AI can help, what it should leave alone and when to tell it, “No. That’s not it.”

Five-page PDF guide

Just give me something fun

30-Day Go Play Deck

Invent a useless product. Record a ridiculous commercial. Build a tiny world. Thirty excuses to try something, with no penalty for ignoring the calendar.

Five-page PDF • 30 prompts

Keep the story with the object

Personal Totem Map

That thing you keep because nobody else understands why? Start there. Give its story a place to live beyond your own memory.

Six-page PDF workbook

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Start with what’s
in front of you.

Extract the ZIP and open THE_BOX_START_HERE.pdf. You can use the collection in any order. These three routes are there if you’d rather have a suggestion.

No need to turn a good afternoon into a personal improvement campaign.

I want to try something today

Open the 30-Day Go Play Deck. Pick one mission that sounds enjoyable. Ignore the date. Give it a few minutes and see where it goes.

An old idea keeps coming back

Start with Signal Recovery. If the idea still interests you, use Make the Cheap Version to plan a small attempt. Bring in AI Playground only if a technical barrier is actually stopping you.

I’m not sure what interests me anymore

Try the free Spark Finder, then open its Companion. Use Play Archaeology if a memory or old hobby gives you a clue.

What you get. Plainly.

One ZIP containing nine PDFs: the eight products listed above and THE_BOX_START_HERE.pdf. Read them on a screen, print the working pages or keep your responses in your own notebook. This purchase includes the files, not software, live coaching or a physical package.

$99 one time

Current opening price. Regular bundle price: $139.

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