You don’t have 24 hours — you have 100 cognitive units.

This book reveals the hidden economy inside modern life: the five Macros you burn (Analytic, Emotive, Vigilance, Political, Kinetic), the invisible taxes draining you (Switching Costs, Guilt as compound interest, Macro Corruption), and the inflation that changes your “capacity price index” over time.

Most people aren’t failing.

They’re simply running in a permanent cognitive recession.

The 100 Protocol™ gives you the operating system to reverse that.

Inside, you’ll discover:

• The Cognitive Economy

A daily marketplace where energy is currency, your environment is taxation, and your biology sets the hard cap.

• The 100 Ledger™

A clean, visual diagnostic that shows your fixed costs, hidden drains, debt, and remaining capacity at a glance.

• The Mechanical Guilt Model

Why guilt isn’t emotional weakness — it’s the interest rate on borrowed energy.

• The Switching Cost Curve

Why a 15-second Slack ping costs 15 units of focus.

• The 10-Unit Day Protocol

A first-of-its-kind crisis mode for grief, illness, burnout, newborn parenting, and periods of systemic overload.

• Case Study Avatars

Varen (The Processor), Sola (The Sentinel), and Kaelo (The Sprinter) show how ordinary days become capacity disasters — and exactly how to recover.

Who This Helps

• Burned-out professionals trying to survive modern work
• Therapists looking for a diagnostic language for exhaustion
• Leaders seeking capacity realism in teams
• Creators, founders, analysts, and high-performers who push too hard
• Anyone who feels “I should be able to do more”

The Bottom Line

This isn’t time management.

This is capacity architecture.

You’re not broken. You’re overdrawn — and now you finally have the ledger.