Why Atlas Scribe

The Atlas Scribe maps exist so people can better map their own inner terrain and understand, experientially, WTF is happening in their own world.

The Atlas Scribe exists to make the invisible visible.

  • Patterns.
  • Relationships.
  • Systems.
  • Stories.
  • Human behavior.
  • The things people often sense but cannot yet name.

Much of what I create starts with noticing something hiding in plain sight, finding language for it, and drawing a chart others can use to navigate it.

Or from direct, raw, shitty experiences. Actually, a lot of it comes from that.

My inner Atlas: "WTF?!?! Well, that was a weird thing to live through. (Or WTF is going on here? WTF is wrong with that asshole? WTF did I just do/say that?!) Let me see if there's a pattern here."

Here's the hidden labor people miss.

You see:

  • the charts
  • the framework
  • the concept
  • the map

You don't see:

  • the years (sometimes decades) of confusion
  • the false theories
  • the experiential shipwrecks
  • the assholes encountered of the WTF variety
  • the wrong explanations
  • the rabbit holes
  • the "WTF?!" moments

The map looks simple because the voyage wasn't. The final version of anything looks simple because all the complexity was paid for in advance. I paid dearly.

Most of the time I am not inventing something new. I am pointing at something that was already there and giving it names, structure, context, and a place within a larger system after spending a long ass time trying to figure that shit out.

  1. Once we can see it, we can work with it.
  2. Once we can name it, we can discuss it.
  3. Once we can chart it, we can navigate it.

That's the work.

And of course some of you will think: "Well, obviously."

Funny how it became obvious after someone spent years figuring it out and drawing the map.

Was it obvious before I made it so, asshole?

Most breakthroughs look obvious after someone organizes them. That's literally what a map is.

I know that: 

  • Some people will misunderstand it.
  • Some people will underestimate it.
  • Some people will think: "That's obvious."
  • Some people will borrow language before they understand experience.
  • Some people will try to take without contributing.
  • Some people will confidently explain my own charts back to me as if they are their own. (They're not. Make your own shit up that's really your own. That's the whole point of Literary Piracy, dude. Fucking hell. The Atlas Scribe is trying to create more people capable of charting their own weird.)
  • Some people will not take the fucking time to do the work themselves & cosplay instead. Predictable. Humans.

Reality awaits. As does my satire.

Oh, for any branding type folks looking for that lingo:

The Atlas Scribe is an evolving atlas of human experience that makes the invisible visible through stories, symbols, systems, and reflection so people can chart their own weird. And so I can chart the weird shit people will do with my shit.

Happy now?

Everybody gets a map.