Minimal Control Lab — Educational Resources & Consulting
Biology.
Environment.
Behavior.
Time.
Books, educational resources and consulting for adults interested in understanding the systems shaping attention, behavior and adaptation.
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ACE Certified — CPT, Behavior Change Specialist|Published instrument: HAPAX, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20693905|ORCID 0009-0008-9431-6968
On Attention
"The first industrialized product was food. The second was attention. The third may be identity."
Publications · Recommended entry point
Books
Biology · Environment
The Minimum Viable Body
Recommended Starting Point
The Minimum Viable Body
What the body actually needs.
What does the body actually need to function, recover, and adapt? Strips away the noise of wellness culture to examine the biological fundamentals — sleep, movement, nutrition, stress regulation, and environmental input — through the lens of systems thinking and evidence-based physiology.
Instant PDF — available immediately after purchase.
Get the PDF — $27Environment before blame.
The Addiction Map
See the mechanismAttention as a resource.
The Signal
Reclaim your attentionReader
"I've read a lot of books about behavior. This one was the first that didn't try to sell me a system — it just explained what was actually happening."
— Reader of The Organism, verified Amazon purchase
The body is not a machine to be fixed. It is a system to be understood.
Understanding systems. Observing behavior.
The goal is not transformation. It is clarity — about what the body does, why behavior happens, and what the environment contributes.
Consulting
Assessment, pattern recognition, and systems analysis.
Not therapy. Not diagnosis. Not a program. Consulting at Minimal Control Lab focuses on helping individuals and organizations understand the biological and environmental patterns shaping behavior — before attributing outcomes to personality or willpower.
90-minute session · Written educational summary included · $97
Book an assessment — $150Clarity over persuasion
We describe systems, not sell solutions.
Observation over ideology
What the evidence shows, not what we prefer.
Biology before opinion
The body has logic. We start there.
Environment before blame
Context shapes behavior. Always.
Published Research
HAPAX Assessment Protocol
A multidimensional assessment protocol integrating validated screening instruments with practitioner-developed domains addressing biological, environmental, behavioral, and lifestyle factors.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20693905 · Preprint 2026 · Not peer reviewed
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