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The Books
Sahil Kathuria is a writer and researcher whose work centers on a single question — how people make sound decisions when the conditions around them work against it — developed through the Economy of Survival and applied across every environment that puts judgment under load.
The Two Literacies extends the analytical method established in the Economy of Survival: that sound decisions depend on the conditions surrounding them, not on motivation or effort alone. Where the Economy of Survival examined decision-making under financial and cognitive load, The Two Literacies applies the same method to a new high-load environment — working alongside AI systems — specifying the conditions under which clear judgment holds.
The Economy of Survival, Vol. I — Stability & Identity
ISBN 979-8-9949272-0-5
The framework’s foundation: decision quality is governed less by character or effort than by the structure of the environment a decision is made in. Stability-first sequencing, functional replacement, and boundary drift — the constructs that specify why change fails and what must be built before it can hold.
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The Economy of Survival, Vol. II — Money, Work & Adult Stability
ISBN 979-8-9949272-1-2
The framework applied to the load environments of adult economic life: income transition, financial complexity, the payday cycle, and work itself as a cognitive system — where the conditions of the environment, not willpower, set the ceiling on sound decisions.
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The Economy of Survival, Vol. III — Legacy, Purpose & Community
ISBN 979-8-9949272-2-9
The framework’s long horizon: plateau as load-balancing, contribution as a structural outcome of stability rather than an input to it, and the conditions under which purpose and standing durably emerge.
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The Two Literacies
Paperback ISBN 979-8-9949272-6-7 · Ebook ISBN 979-8-9949272-7-4
The framework carried into the newest load environment: the working day alongside AI. The two literacies — SPEC, structuring the input before you generate, and CATCH, recognizing failure before it ships — and the Loop that makes them a sustained practice.
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The Two Literacies Workbook
ISBN 979-8-9949272-8-1
The companion in working order: spec templates, audit checklists, the weekly Loop practice, and the return protocols for when the practice breaks.
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