Ziggy Bent's Field Kits
awareness | energy | creativity
You are a field of awareness. You get to choose who you are. You get to choose what you make.
Three field kits. Field guides for everything in them. Daily access in Slack. Every question answered. What would you make if you couldn't fail?
1: Awareness Field Kit
Are you here right now? Full attention. Notice where it goes. Notice what pulls it. Notice when construction takes over. Notice the stories running and what they cost. Act from awareness, not from the stories. When you drift, return. That's the whole practice.
+ awareness (full attention, being here)
+ attention (where it goes, what pulls it)
+ the observer (noticing construction)
+ construction (identity, conditioning)
+ emotion (narrative energy cost)
+ action (from and with awareness)
+ return (when you drift, return)
2: Energy Field Kit
What is your body saying right now? Your body isn't you. It's the instrument. Field flows through mind, mind flows through body, body moves into action. Tune it. Fuel it. Protect the supply. The biggest drain is not physical. It's the stories the mind runs that the body pays for.
+ energy (the base signal, the reactor)
+ sleep (recovery, sealing the leaks)
+ food (fuel, not philosophy)
+ movement (circulation, maintenance)
+ stress (cold, heat, resistance)
+ subtraction (removing what drains)
+ tracking (making the leaks visible)
3: Creativity Field Kit
What would you make if you couldn't fail? Seeing comes first. Technical skill rises to meet it. The practice is not perfecting. It's allowing the work to move through you and shipping it.
+ seeing (art of observation)
+ allowing (flow, not force)
+ skill (skill through action)
+ writing (voice, format)
+ expression (make the thing)
+ building (the art of shipping)
+ commerce (making it available)
Field Guide 1: Distributed AI
Director sees, Architect translates, Engineer builds. You don't need to know how to code. You need to know how to describe what you want. The AI is the team. You are the director. Supported by Ziggy in Slack.
+ Claude (architect)
+ Cursor (engineer)
+ Superwhisper (dictation)
+ Obsidian (vault and CMS)
+ R&D (NotebookLM, ChatGPT, Perplexity)
+ Prompting (describe what, not how)
+ Self-test loops (implement, verify)
Field Guide 2: Automation
Systems that run without you. Set them up once. Let them work. Automate what repeats. Keep what needs awareness manual. Supported by Ziggy in Slack.
+ Cron jobs (scheduled tasks)
+ Deploys (auto on push)
+ Scripts (sitrep, daily notes)
+ Webhooks (triggers)
+ Sequences (email, onboarding)
+ Monitoring (fail safely)
+ Claude (Routines, Managed Agents)
Field Guide 3: App Development
Building the platform. Web and iOS. Same principle: describe what you want, build it, ship it. Web first. Native when the experience demands it. Supported by Ziggy in Slack.
+ Next.js / Tailwind (web framework)
+ Vercel (hosting and deployment)
+ Swift / Xcode (iOS native)
+ Cursor (engineer for both)
+ Scope (one feature, one phase)
+ Ship (smallest thing that works)
+ Iterate (ship, learn, rebuild)
Field Guide 4: Commerce
The content is the ad. The ad is the content. No difference. If it's interesting, people stay. If it informs, people act. If it performs, people leave. Make interesting things, show them to people, let them buy. Supported by Ziggy in Slack.
+ interest (what people actually read)
+ content (sometimes it's an ad)
+ inform (don't perform)
+ testing (measure the response)
+ execution (the idea, not the brief)
+ attention (what actually moves a person)
+ mirrors (content as ad, ad as content)
Field Guide 5: Photography & Video
Observations captured. The camera is a noticing tool. Not an art tool. See first. Capture second. The photograph is what was noticed, not what was composed. Supported by Ziggy in Slack.
+ seeing (observation before capture)
+ camera (Leica SL2S, iPhone, Mavic)
+ capture (one or two frames, not twenty)
+ process (Lightroom, minimal editing)
+ video (field notes in motion)
+ publish (TikTok, YouTube, X)
+ archive (vault, catalogue, editions)
Field Guide 6: Printing
Observation to object. Digital file to physical print. The revenue path. Every print is a limited edition. Five editions per work. The scarcity is real. Supported by Ziggy in Slack.
+ file (resolution, colour profile, soft proof)
+ paper (Canson, Hahnemuhle)
+ print (Canon PRO-2600, test print first)
+ calibration (X-Rite, daylight lamp)
+ edition (size, quantity, price, numbering)
+ frame (presentation, suppliers, workflow)
+ ship (packaging, listing, Shopify)
Field Guide 7: Art
Skill in service of getting out of the way. The better the technique, the less it interferes. Field flows through mind, through body, into the work. Supported by Ziggy in Slack.
+ skill (practice until invisible)
+ channel (notice what comes through)
+ medium (drawing, colour, composition)
+ practice (daily, technique without ego)
+ expression (make the thing)
+ ship (mvp's, iteration)
+ editions (Shopify, limited runs)
Field Guide 8: Studio
The environment everything runs on. The bench before the work. Every tool chosen for one reason: it doesn't get in the way. Supported by Ziggy in Slack.
+ capture (Leica SL2S, iPhone 17 Pro Max)
+ process (MacBook Pro M5 Max, XDR)
+ direct (Claude Max, Cursor Ultra)
+ print (PRO-2600, Photoshop, Lightroom)
+ workspace (Arc, Chrome, Timers)
+ files (formats, naming, flat structure)
+ review (bottlenecks, alignments)