𝑖Sight Laboratories · Nathan G. Phillips, MSME, PE · Salt Lake City, UT A life needs what a jet needs.

Flying on fumes?Not willing to take another stall for a flight plan that isn't yours?

A mission, a maintenance schedule, and a limit. That's all a jet gets.
Nobody ever issued you the three.
Not weak. Unlogged.

Find your material — free →

No account. Nothing is ever uploaded. About 10 minutes.

The first question isn't what's wrong with you. It's what you're made of.

Metals. Ceramics. Polymers. Elastomers. Composites. Foams. Naturals. Seven families, thirty-eight properties, one genuinely fun hour deciding which one is you. Do you bend and come back, or hold rigid right up until you don't? Carry the load alone, or only in layers? Does heat make you soft, or make you stronger?

Nobody's grading you. It's a thought experiment with real materials science under it — the same property tables I've used on actual structures, pointed somewhere they were never meant to go.

Then we fly it. Fighter, sailplane, transport, aerobatic — trainer, rescue, test bed, depot. Same properties, eight completely different missions. Some materials thrive in one and come apart in the others. That's not a flaw. That's the whole point.

There's a mission that fits the airframe you actually are — your flight path, more lift than drag, where cruise doesn't take full power.

How I found out

For twenty years I kept other people's jets airworthy. Not one of them fell out of the sky.

Every jet I touched had a logbook. I didn't.

The job that kept them flying is what wore me down — too steep for too long, on a flight plan that was never mine. I stalled the way airplanes do. So I gave myself the same rigor and the same tools I'd been handing out for two decades. The three.

2,395 days of log later, I'm the engineer and the airplane both.

What this is, and isn't

This isn't medicine and I'm not a clinician. It's a program that was never meant for people, pointed at one anyway — half engineering, half art. I published it because it's mine, not because it's a prescription.

I'm not here to fix you. The songs that got me through the worst nights never fixed anything either. They just put somebody on my wing. A wingman doesn't take your controls. He confirms you're not alone up there.

The engineering underneath

Human performance, built on military-grade engineering — the same standards that keep million-dollar, high-performance aircraft flying for decades, adapted one-for-one to a human life. You are not weak, and you are not broken. You’ve just been flying without your paperwork. We issue it.

𝑖Sight Laboratories maintains 𝑖SIP — the inner-𝑖 Soundness & Integrity Program — and builds the instruments that let a person execute it. MIL-STD-1530D, the USAF Aircraft Structural Integrity Program, translated one-for-one onto a human life. Not aviation used as decoration: the arithmetic is actually the same. Declared service life. Uncontrolled loads. Known flaws you mostly cannot see. A catastrophic failure mode. Only the units change.

You are not weak, and you are not broken. You are uncertificated — operating without placards, on a mission you were never shown the order for. We issue the paperwork. What 𝑖Sight Laboratories offers you is a tail number in a managed fleet: aero-proven instruments to reconstruct what you were built for, measure what actually loads you, and convert your boundaries from preferences into certified limits. The discipline that keeps an airframe airworthy, aimed instead at the turbulence and gusts of life. Your downtime gets planned for, not just survived.

The 𝑖Sight lifecycle

You don't get a label. You enter a lifecycle.

Layer 1 — the wave: one service life, rising and falling. Add the terrain →

C O N V E R G E T H R O A T D I V E R G E CURRENT STATE ▸ AIRWORTHY ▸
HINDsightthe past
𝑖NSightthe present
FOREsightthe future
What happens in ten minutes

Three steps, and you have your first placard

STEP 01 Characterize the material

Thirty-eight properties, seven archetypes. You find out what you are actually made of before anyone puts load on it.

STEP 02 Read the result

Not a label — a spec sheet. Where you are strong, where you crack, and the load path you were built to carry.

STEP 03 Take the card with you

Your result rendered as a card you can keep or post. Then the instruments that turn it into a maintenance plan.

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About

The engineer behind the lab

I'm Nathan G. Phillips — an aerospace structural engineer with nearly 20 years in fatigue and fracture mechanics, ASIP documentation, and the federal SBIR ecosystem. My career has taken me through Hill AFB, Northrop Grumman, the USAF, and Lockheed Martin.

At some point I started noticing that the same physical laws governing how materials fail under stress — yielding, fracturing, fatigue, creep — map remarkably well onto how people behave under pressure. 𝑖Sight Laboratories is the result of following that thread.

I build tools that help people understand themselves with the same rigor engineers apply to materials. Not soft self-help — frameworks with actual structure, rooted in measurable properties.

𝑖Sight Laboratories maintains the inner-𝑖 Soundness & Integrity Program and builds the instruments that let a person execute it — for people who accept every load applied to them. That second clause is not a market segment appended to a mission; it is what makes the first one specific enough to act on. These structures are not failing for lack of capability. They are failing for lack of a document that says no on their behalf. Read the program →

20+
Years in aerospace structural engineering — fatigue, fracture, ASIP
38
Material properties mapped to human personality traits in Mind My Material
2,395
Days logged — the longitudinal record behind Hindsight 80/20
Why join the fleet

What a tail number gets you

What 𝑖Sight Laboratories offers you is a tail number in a managed fleet — the discipline that keeps an airframe airworthy, aimed instead at the turbulence and gusts of life.

Instruments on

Aero-proven instruments to reconstruct what you were built for and measure what actually loads you. The working instruments are free, on the web, and log 100% on your device.

Certified limits

Your boundaries convert from preferences into certified never-exceed limits. A boundary stated as a preference is negotiable; a certified placard is not.

Downtime, planned

Your downtime gets planned for, not just survived — inspection intervals computed from how fast damage is actually growing, not from how guilty you feel.

A larger envelope

The loop does not return you to where you started — it returns you with a larger envelope. Expansion flown like a test pilot, not a redliner.

Who this standard is written for

A standard is written against a threat, and this one's is specific. The people 𝑖SIP is for tend to share some mix of nine traits — reflexive yes-sayers, people-pleasers, the easily exploited, people carrying anxiety or made to feel expendable, talented status-quo challengers, innovators who overcommit and burn out, tradespeople who over-sacrifice, and people who want rigorous tools while loving to dream past reason. Those are not nine problems. They are one failure mode: the structure accepts every load applied to it. No placards, no never-exceed limits, a load spectrum filed by other people — so every mission gets assigned, and every load becomes an ultimate load. Exploitation is a documentation gap, not a character flaw. Read who this standard is written for →

Start at Task 0 → See the flight plan ↓
𝑖SIP · the inner-𝑖 Soundness & Integrity Program

Flight Plan

𝑖SIP is ASIP pointed inward — MIL-STD-1530D, flown over a person instead of an airframe. Fifty-two tasks translated one-for-one, plus a Task 0 the standard never needed, because aircraft arrive with a drawing package and a chain of command and people do not. Above all of it sits Insider Threat — the policy layer, where AFPD 63-1 sits above the standard: you are the load and the crack. Here's the induction sequence.

𝑖your inner 𝑖the interior self — the imaginary axis. You cannot reach it by adding 1s.
SSoundnessCondition. Am I whole, rested, undamaged, fit to fly? Fails as fatigue, corrosion, burnout.
IIntegrityCoherence. Latin integer — untouched, undivided. Fails as saying yes while meaning no.
PProgramthe managed lifecycle — 52 tasks + Task 0, on intervals, forever.
You can be entirely undamaged and entirely divided. You can also be perfectly coherent and badly worn.Most people arriving here are both at once — and a program with only one word for it can only see half of what is wrong.
  • 0

    Find out who is commanding you

    Task 0 · i5.0.1 – i5.0.3 · Configuration & Authority Start here

    Never Task I. In ASIP, MAJCOM sets your service life, your mission mix and your readiness requirement — and for most people arriving here, MAJCOM has been outsourced. An employer, a family system, an institution or an accumulated habit of deference is filing the flight plans. Ask a person in that state to declare their design service life and they will faithfully declare someone else's, and every task above it gets rigorously executed against the wrong requirement. The analysis comes out correct and the answer comes out worthless. So first: inventory what you actually are, trace each recurring load back to the authority that assigned it, and write down a dated baseline before the program tells you where you should be.

    Task 0 — the entry point i5.0.1 · Find your material i5.0.2 · Career load history i5.0.3 · Start the record
then the lifecycle runs · Tasks I – V
  • I

    Recover what you were built for

    Task I · i5.1.1 – i5.1.7 · Design Information Available now

    Task I is where you decide what counts as success before you have any data — which is why it is the task most people skip and the one that invalidates everything downstream when skipped. i5.1.2 is the single most consequential number in the whole program: how long you intend to remain in service, doing what, as a mix with percentages. Declare it on Hindsight Daily’s Mission tab — walkthrough, 3:15. Then i5.1.3: name your clamps, your braces, and your assumed initial crookedness. If you don't set your margin deliberately, you're operating at 1.0 — and every load is an ultimate load.

    Insider Threat Converge to Diverge
  • II

    Identify your material and what loads it

    Task II · i5.2.1 – i5.2.15 · Analysis & Development Testing Available now

    Fifteen tasks — the largest and most analytical block. Characterize the material before you load it, then enumerate everything that loads it: the discipline here is completeness, not severity ranking. Ground-handling loads are unglamorous and they crack airplanes — commutes, admin, logistics, small obligations are usually missing from people's mental inventory entirely and are frequently the governing case. Then i5.2.6, damage tolerance: assume the largest flaw your self-inspection could have missed, estimate its growth under your actual spectrum, and inspect at half the remaining life. Insider Threat rendered as arithmetic.

    Free quiz Deep-dive quiz Converge to Diverge
  • III

    Fly it for real, with instruments on

    Task III · i5.3.1 – i5.3.8 · Full-Scale Testing Available now

    Task III exists because analysis is a hypothesis. The test is where reality gets a vote — and when test and analysis disagree, the test wins and the analysis is updated. Stand up Hindsight 80/20 and log your load history; rainflow the ups and downs so accumulated fatigue surfaces before it grounds you; fly the model in Flight Test to find where you crack first. And keep the boundary straight: a crisis is a static test — it tells you your strength and nothing at all about your life. Surviving ultimate load says nothing about how many cycles at 40% you can take, and it is the 40% cycles that kill airframes. And Task III has a second half most people never reach — i5.3.2.1, the modal survey: thump the finished structure and time how long it rings. Not the drawings, the real thing. Everywhere else in the program the structure's properties are assumed and the wear on them is tracked; this is the one task that measures the properties. That is what the ring-down test reads out of your own record.

    Hindsight 80/20 Daily App i5.3.2.1 · Modal Survey Why Hindsight? The data-economy map The Framework Flight Test
the throat, and everything after it
  • IV

    Get certified — and get your placards

    Task IV · i5.4.1 – i5.4.7 · Certification & Life Management Development In development

    The throat. Everything before it is characterization; everything after it is operation, and everything upstream compresses into four artifacts: a Master Plan, a placard set, a certification basis, and the 𝑖SMP. Certification is dated, evidenced, conditional and revocable — a completely different object from self-esteem, and exactly what a person operating under the Insider Threat premise needs, because the premise denies you the option of trusting yourself on feel. And the placards are the flagship: a boundary stated as a preference is negotiable; a never-exceed limit is not.

    ★ i5.4.2 · The placard set i5.4.1 · Certification basis i5.4.7 · 𝑖SRM — the Repair Manual theWORKableME
  • V

    Run the loop. Forever.

    Task V · i5.5.1 – i5.5.15 · Life Management Execution In development

    Fifteen tasks, most of them "update" — which is the point. Task V is not maintenance in the sense of holding still; it is a running loop that continuously invalidates and rebuilds the analysis above it. Log, recompute, revise every interval, recertify when the mission changes. ASIP without Task V is a binder on a shelf — and a placard set issued once to a person who cannot say no will erode without an interval that re-issues it. One safeguard is built in and non-negotiable: inspection happens at the interval and not otherwise. Continuous self-monitoring couples with the thing it monitors and drives the instability.

    i5.5.1 · Hindsight Daily i5.5.10 · Repair Bay — the 𝑖SRM feed i5.5.3 · 𝑖DADTA updates i5.5.14 · Quit or Stay i5.5.11 · Repairs Engineer'd Mind

Read the whole program — all 55 tasks →

Task 0's three sub-tasks are added under the licence of i5.5.15 — Others as Required, which exists in the standard precisely so a program can add what its structure requires. One further addition sits inside the lattice rather than beside it — i5.3.2.1, the Modal Survey — numbered as a sub-task of Pre-Flight Verification so the count of fifty-five does not move. The 52 translated tasks remain 1:1 with MIL-STD-1530D; the numbering keeps every addition visible. See the full lattice →

The standard

Insider Threat is the driving philosophy of the program

In the ASIP policy stack, nothing starts with the technical standard. It starts with AFPD 63-1, a policy directive that does exactly one thing: it states that an integrity program shall exist. It does not say how — it says that the alternative, running the fleet without one, is not permitted. 𝑖SIP needs the same thing at the top, and Insider Threat is it.

You are the load and the crack. The structure and the flaw are the same object.

Therefore no program built on the assumption of your own soundness can be trusted, and every program must be built on measurement instead. Once you accept that the flaw is already present and already yours, "inspection" stops being self-improvement and becomes crack detection. "Damage tolerance" stops being resilience-talk and becomes an operating posture: I will fly with a known flaw, on a known growth curve, under a known inspection interval, and I will not pretend otherwise.

The compensating half, from Converge to Diverge: this is not a sentence. The pinch in a nozzle is not damage — it is the precondition for thrust. A flaw under a managed program is what generates the very data that lets the structure be trusted. Ease cannot make a diamond. Pressure can.

The two words

Soundness is condition — am I whole, rested, undamaged, fit to fly? It fails as fatigue, corrosion, accumulated wear, burnout.

Integrity is coherence — Latin integer, untouched and undivided. It fails as saying yes while meaning no; as the outward answer and the inward answer no longer being the same object.

English never split the engineering sense of integrity from the moral sense. That is not a coincidence of vocabulary — it is the strongest evidence that 𝑖SIP is a transfer rather than a metaphor.

The captured MAJCOM

In ASIP, MAJCOM sets service life, planned usage, readiness and budget. The SPO translates that into plans. They are deliberately separate — and for the people this program is written for, MAJCOM has been outsourced. Someone else is filing the flight plans.

The planning is often excellent. That is what makes it hard to see. A well-run SPO serving a captured MAJCOM produces a person who is extremely effective at a life they did not choose, and who cannot work out why competence has not produced relief.

Which is why the program cannot open at i5.1.2, and why it has a Task 0.

One failure mode

Reflexive yes. People-pleasing. Being easy to exploit. Anxiety and depression. Being made to feel expendable. Talent that challenges the status quo. Innovators who overcommit. Tradespeople who over-sacrifice. Wanting rigorous tools and loving to dream past reason.

Those are not nine problems. They are one failure mode: the structure accepts every load applied to it — and in this standard's vocabulary, that is a missing Strength Summary & Operating Restrictions. No placards. No never-exceed limits. A load spectrum filed by other people.

Exploitation is a documentation gap, not a character flaw. If there is no SSOR, there is nothing for a demanding operator to violate.

Read the standard — all 55 tasks Appendix A — the envelope Start at Task 0

Scope. 𝑖SIP is a structural integrity framework and not a substitute for medical or psychological care. Some findings — persistent depression, crisis, anxiety that does not respond to load reduction, anything involving harm — are outside its certification basis and require a qualified authority. Referring a finding to the correct authority is a completed task, not a failed one. In the US, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is reachable by call or text at 988.

𝑖Sight Laboratories

The product line

Every product here is a numbered task inside 𝑖SIP — not a standalone app that happens to share a logo. If a product cannot be assigned to a numbered task, it is either mis-scoped or it is revealing a task the standard hasn't articulated yet. That test is the discipline the standard exists to impose. The three divisions — HINDsight, 𝑖NSight, FOREsight — are the three time-domains every integrity program has to work in at once: what has been loaded onto me, what I am made of, and where the crack is going. See the full product-to-task map →

Open the product line — every card is a numbered task
The program standard
𝑖SIP — the inner-𝑖 Soundness & Integrity Program
Policy · standard · charter — 52 tasks + Task 0
MIL-STD-1530D translated one-for-one onto a human life. The governing premise (Insider Threat — you are the load and the crack), the captured-MAJCOM claim, all fifty-five numbered tasks with their evidence requirements, the product-to-task map, and Appendix A on how to carry a placard you fully intend to exceed. This is the frame every product below sits inside.
Working Draft v0.4 Read the program →
𝑖NSight Division
MmM Level-2 Deep-Dive
i5.0.1 · i5.1.7 · i5.2.1 — Configuration determination, at grade level
The paid tier of Mind My Material. A precision 14-question category refinement — fourteen all-new oddball themes mapped to fatigue, damping, creep, and friends — then a material-specific MaxDiff that identifies your one material among its seven category siblings. Includes a personalized multi-page persona report sheet. One unlock, $24.99 — the deep-dive follows wherever your refinement lands, with all seven categories open and your result kept in each.
Live Unlock the deep-dive →
𝑖NSight Division
Converge to Diverge
Part 0 · i5.1.3 · i5.1.4 — The coordinate system
The framework, drawn as an engine. Two waves mirrored about the 𝑖-axis build a converging–diverging nozzle: seasons of addition are the open chambers, seasons of subtraction are the throats — and the pinch is the precondition for thrust. Anchored on Insider Threat and 2,228 days of measured light and darkness, where insight changes phase.
Live Read the framework →
𝑖NSight Division
MmM Flight Test
i5.2.13 · i5.3.3 — Development tests & instrumented flight
A surrogate flight test. Pick a material, fly it through a chosen life mission, and watch where it cracks — rainflow → Walker S-N → Palmgren-Miner, the same fatigue stack flown on real airframes. Predict the crack before you commit; no personal data required. There is no best material — every one has a mission where it thrives.
Live Run the flight test →
HINDsight Division
Hindsight 80/20
i5.2.5 · i5.2.6 · i5.5.3 — Durability, damage tolerance, 𝑖DADTA
The real full-scale test. A longitudinal self-tracking system that runs the fatigue analysis on your own logged history — finding the 20% of behaviors that drive 80% of your wellness. Where the flight test predicts, this measures. Built on 2,395 days of real data with rainflow counting and Palmgren-Miner damage accumulation.
Live The full story →
HINDsight Division
Hindsight Daily
i5.4.4 · i5.4.5 · i5.5.1 · i5.5.2 · i5.5.10 · i5.5.11 — L/ESS + IAT, repairs & the 𝑖SRM feed
The daily instrument. One 0–10 number a day on your phone — the same rainflow and Palmgren-Miner pipeline as the full analysis, running entirely on your device. v4.0 — the Repair Bay: the maintenance record. Tag the repairs you already log and the bay reads which recovery procedures actually work on you — and which well-meant ones read as maintenance-induced damage. Three capped lists (Certified · Grounded · In Test), coupon tests declared before the run, verdicts recomputed only when your inspection interval comes due. Plus everything since: the Modal Survey ring-down test, missions and resonance, the damage curve and the crack-growth view.
Live · v4.0 Start your record →
FOREsight Division
𝑖SRM — the Repair Manual
i5.4.7 · i5.5.10 · i5.5.11 — Technical orders & repair execution
A -3 Structural Repair Manual for the human airframe — the first working entry in it. Diagnosis precedes repair: triage the failure mode before any hammer comes out (no one-modality fixes), then run Repair Procedure No. 1 — Euler buckling, pointed inward. Turn the knobs the equation gives you — distribution of interest, distance from grounded truth, how the past and future ends are fixed — and watch Pcr climb. One example of many ASIP tools carrying over to 𝑖SIP. Now with a live feed: the Daily's Repair Bay accumulates certified procedures from your own record — i5.5.10, executed nightly.
Live Open the manual →
𝑖NSight Division
theWORKableME
i5.1.7 · i5.2.15 — Load path, joints, economic service life
Once you know your material, find the job and environment where you naturally thrive. Right person, right role; right material, right load path. Career-fit guidance grounded in your Mind My Material profile.
Coming soon
▶ Quit or Stay — the spot Career load history
𝑖NSight Division
Engineer'd Mind
i5.4.7 · i5.5.10 — 𝑖SRM narrative layer
Engineering metaphors applied to personal development. Keep watch, re-baseline, carry it forward — a mental-health narrative framework for technically-minded people who think in systems, not feelings. The 𝑖SRM — the growing repair manual — is where this framework already lives and works.
In development
𝑖SRM — the Repair Manual
FOREsight Division
A-0 Placard Set — the SSOR
i5.4.2 — Strength Summary & Operating Restrictions
The flagship. One card per limit: the limit, the analysis it traces back to, and what exceeding it costs. Small enough to carry, and issued with a PROVISIONAL / CERTIFIED status field so it can ship before the whole derivation chain is built. A boundary stated as a preference is negotiable; a never-exceed limit is not — and that difference is the difference between a person who can be talked into anything and a person who cannot.
In development
Read i5.4.2 Appendix A — the envelope
FOREsight Division
𝑖SMP + Certification Basis
i5.4.1 · i5.4.3 · i5.4.6 — The keystone artifacts
The one document a customer should never lose. Not written by hand — rendered live from your own record: material, mission, spectrum, joints, findings, placards and intervals, composed into a single always-current maintenance plan, displayed alongside a dated certification basis with its evidence links and expiry conditions. Every instrument on this page emits into the same store.
In development
Read i5.4.3 Certification basis
𝑖NSight Division
The Loads Evaluation — free body diagram
i5.2.2 — Loads Analysis · Worksheet 4B interactive
The person as airframe. Name every force — lift, weight, thrust, drag, headwind, tailwind, the gust — size the real items behind each arrow, and read the balance: climb, cruise, or a descent nobody declared. R.’s filled example included.
Live — free Fly the balance →
HINDsight Division
Authority Trace
i5.0.2 — Command Authority Determination
The program's true entry point, and the signal-and-noise page. Every authority is a signal source claiming the right to assign you load; noise is the set of demands arriving with no legitimate authority behind them. The Authority Register names each one, its domain, what loads it may assign, and its status — accepted, reclaimed, or revoked. The inner 𝑖 is listed as an authority, and for the captured-MAJCOM reader it is typically the only one missing from their own list.
In development
Read i5.0.2 Career load history
FOREsight Division
Emotional Environment
i5.1.5 · i5.2.7 — Corrosion prevention & assessment
Philosophy and tools for channeling emotional energy. Define the spectrum before you fly it — environmental framing of emotional states, because context shapes performance as much as capability.
In development
The data economy

Where the numbers come from. Where they go.

Six input streams, six output products, one instrument in the middle — every box is a link. Tap any station to open it, or keep the map handy at its own page →

INPUTS — WHAT THE PILOT SUPPLIES OUTPUTS — WHAT THE PROGRAM RECEIVES Open Hindsight Daily — the dial The dial — W, 0–10 one number at night · note Repair Bay — one-tag repair logging Repair tags · i5.5.11 label · dose · intent Repair Bay — coupon tests, declared before the run Coupon tests · i5.2.13 declared before the run Open Hindsight Daily — the Mission tab Mission chips · i5.1.2 −1 / 0 / +1 — built it today? Mind My Material — your S-N constants Material constants A, m — your own S-N curve Open Hindsight Daily — Data tab imports History imports CSV backfill · backup restore Open Hindsight Daily THE INSTRUMENT HINDSIGHT DAILY rainflow → Walker → S-N → Miner ring-down fit · residual engine interval-gated reads · six tabs all computation on-device no server · no account The fatigue analysis — the damage ledger explained The damage ledger D(t) · rates · inspection date Repair Bay — the Brief and the three working lists The Brief & working lists Certified 3 · Grounded 3 · In Test 5 The 𝑖SRM — the growing repair manual iSRM feed · i5.5.10 certified procedures, earned Repair Bay — what it can't do; findings for a clinician [Rx] findings — clinician never ranked · handed off Open Hindsight Daily — the Report tab Monthly service log print-to-PDF report · CSV Open Hindsight Daily — Data tab backups Backup JSON — only egress full record · restores anywhere PRIVACY AS ARCHITECTURE — NOT AS POLICY The record lives on the pilot's device. No server-side copy, no account, no analytics beacon, no third-party SDK. The exported backup file is the only way data ever leaves — and the pilot carries it by hand. Every arrow inside this floor executes on-device.

This is the Daily's map. Its companion — one characterization, five consumers — charts the Mind My Material line: the MmM map →  ·  Every page in the fleet: the Hangar →

On air

The spots

Eight brand films — six short silent spots, a two-minute silent 𝑖SRM explainer, and one 2:14 cut with original score. They play right in your browser — no downloads, just press of a link.

Roll the films — eight spots
𝑖NSight Division
The Free Body — The Spot
26-second brand film · silent
A life needs what a jet needs. Every force on you has a name — lift, weight, thrust, drag, wind, gust — and one honest sentence about your trajectory. Then put down what was never yours to carry.
▶ Watch — 0:26
The program standard
𝑖SIP Has Landed — The Spot
23-second announcement · silent
The v3 update in five frames: the whole standard online — 52 tasks + Task 0 — your material driving both life models, and the new gauges on the panel. Pure HTML, no video file, plays anywhere.
▶ Watch — 0:23
𝑖NSight Division
Inner 𝑖 — The Spot
30-second brand film · silent
From 20 years of keeping supersonic aircraft airworthy to the science of finding your inner 𝑖. Five scenes, one wave.
▶ Watch — 0:30
𝑖Sight Laboratories
Mind My Material — Tech Spot
30-second brand film · silent
Materials fail in predictable ways. So do people. The creep curve, the property ticker, and the assessment that maps them.
▶ Watch — 0:30
HINDsight Division
Hindsight Daily — The Spot
30-second brand film · silent
Wings wear out from thousands of ordinary flexes. So do people. The rising damage curve, the pipeline ticker, and the one-number-a-day recorder.
▶ Watch — 0:30
HINDsight Division
Repair Bay — The Spot
30-second brand film · silent
Every aircraft carries two logbooks — flights flown and repairs made. You've been keeping one. One tag on repairs you already log; each reads good or bad in your own record, with proof by declared coupon test.
▶ Watch — 0:30
HINDsight Division
Hindsight Daily — The Walkthrough
3:15 product walkthrough · silent · v4.1
The whole instrument in under four minutes: one number a day, the Trends gauges, Mind My Material — then the v2.3 mission layer: declared missions, the alignment map’s twelve-week trail, the pacer, return-on-damage, and the structure view. Captions built in.
▶ Watch — 3:15
FOREsight Division
𝑖SRM — Will It Hold? Spot
2:04 brand film · silent
Every airframe carries a repair manual. You don't — yet. The 30-second open — a column, a load, the sudden buckle — then a summary of the whole manual: the one-hammer problem, the three triage questions, and all four knobs, E · I · L · K.
▶ Watch — 2:04
HINDsight Division
Quit or Stay — The Decision Spot
2:14 brand film · original score
The long-form cut. A career flown to the fatigue limit, one Monday morning, and the decision every burnout eventually faces — quit or stay. Decide with instruments, not instinct.
▶ Watch — 2:14
Writing

Books

From philosophical memoir to illustrated allegory — the same ideas explored through different lenses.

Insider Threat
Volumes I–VI · Philosophical Memoir Series
Available Now
Buy on Amazon →
See the cover Insider Threat — front cover
The 𝑖SIP Companion Workbook
𝑖SIP Standard · Worksheets & Working Forms · Vol. I philosophy bound in
Available Now · Softcover & Hardcover

Every worksheet of the standard — the Authority Trace to the Deep Audit — with plain-language bridges, a filled example workbook, and Insider Threat Vol. I as the driving philosophy. The free web instruments are its companion sheets.

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Rhigle Rage in Timber Town
Tall Tales Engineering · Tale of Whoa Two
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Feaver Fever in Spillage Village
Tall Tales Engineering · The Force of Buoyancy
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Six Pack Security
𝑖NSight Division · Illustrated Allegory
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An illustrated allegory of buckling — the sudden, sideways collapse under a load you'd been carrying fine. The 𝑖SRM page walks the exact engineering idea at the heart of this upcoming cartoon graphic novel: Euler's column, pointed inward.

The core idea — 𝑖SRM
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Content

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Stability of Mind

An upcoming podcast exploring the science of materials as a lens on human behavior — hosted by an aerospace engineer who spent two decades studying how things break. Expect humor, depth, and a healthy disrespect for conventional self-help. Inspired by the format of Completely Arbitrary.

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Also by Nathan G. Phillips

The Smile High Podcast Club

Nathan and his brother Doug interview guests to help uncover their unique gifts — probing questions, 30-day challenges, and stories of triumph and defeat. A Health & Fitness podcast active since 2014.

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