I didn’t set out to build a framework for human performance.

I lived my way into one.

In midlife, my life collapsed not because of weakness or mindset, but because the environments around me were never designed to sustain a human system under real load. What failed was not me. What failed was the structure I was living inside.

That experience revealed something fundamental: humans are not broken, humans are systems. When systems fall out of coherence, function collapses.

Burnout, exhaustion, and loss of direction are not personal pathologies, they are predictable consequences of incoherent conditions.

From this realisation emerged The Human Operating System™ - a reference architecture that maps the minimum conditions required for humans to think clearly, learn deeply, work sustainably, and flourish over time. This work is designed for application across education, healthcare, organisations, and society as a whole.

You can begin with The User Manual, which articulates the foundational reference layer of the architecture. Or explore the essays, which translate the architecture into lived human experience.

I hope something here meets you where you are.

SM