Part I · From Producing to Persisting Chapter 1 · The Effort Trap Chapter 2 · From Assembling to Self-Sustaining Chapter 3 · What an Atomic System Is Chapter 4 · Goals Choose the Destination; Systems Do the Driving Part II · Diagnosing the Whole Chapter 5 · Decomposition Chapter 6 · Bottlenecks and Leverage Chapter 7 · Feedback Chapter 8 · The Audit Part III · Closing the Loop (Making It Run) Chapter 9 · Improving the Right Part Chapter 10 · From Manual to Reliable Chapter 11 · The Self-Sustaining Loop Chapter 12 · Maintenance and Resilience Chapter 13 · The System That Runs Without You Part IV · The Core Personal Systems Chapter 14 · The Learning System Chapter 15 · The Creation System Chapter 16 · The Direction System Chapter 17 · The Energy System Chapter 18 · The Relationship System Part V · Systems at Work and at Scale Chapter 19 · Work That Survives Your Absence Chapter 20 · Installing Systems Instead of Solving Problems Chapter 21 · From Personal System to Shared System Chapter 22 · AI as a System Operator Part VI · The Compounding Life Chapter 23 · Nested Systems and No Ceiling Chapter 24 · The Quiet Engine