This project began as an informal DNP-Psychiatry student project outlining a personal practice philosophy as well as creating general health recommendations that could be provided to patients and non-patients free of charge. This involved touching on factors that commonly influence the quality of life for individuals, which, well, as soon as that began to be explored, the project ballooned, growing well beyond the initial conception. 

This is a pet project to be released in digital format for free when it gets to a point where it feels ready for publishing. 

It incorporates studies in psychiatry, psychology, sociology, and history, as well as some economics and cultural anthropology. 

It is designed to be wide in scope yet practical and digestible.  

For inquiries and connections:
I can be contacted at my name at this site domain. 

Michael 


October 2025

I tend to treat nonfiction reading as works in progress—I mark up my books and put personal reflections in the margins. This helps me digest the books but is still not enough to learn well. Because I would often forget the material over time and because I wanted to improve my ability to process it all, I began typing up notes as digital documents for easy review. 

That resulted in having condensed forms of the books with notes. It still wasn’t a good system. 

I purchased Scrivener, which I used to pull all of my documents by subject into a file that I could better organize, together with creating new internal documents with cross-comparison reflections, but this still was not a great system. Better, sure, but I felt it could improve. 

Then I learned about Obsidian, a database that allowed me to break the documents down into smaller notes linked forwards and backwards to each other in a web-like system. It’s a very flexible system that allows various forms of tagging along with cross-linking to make it easy to search and experiment with grouping notes in different ways. It also will bring up relevant notes in table form or visual-web form, or both side-by-side, to stimulate different ways of thinking. 

So I have been transferring all of my notes to Obsidian for this project. The amount of notes is massive, and I am maybe about 70% of the way through. I’ll make updates here as seems appropriate. 

Tools: 
Obsidian — notes & information database
Zotero — references & bibliography
Scrivener — composition