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John Green

Live

"The Anthropocene Reviewed" podcast and book, "Everything is Tuberculosis," Vlogbrothers videos, TED talks, interviews, and commencement speeches

Novelist, essayist, and Vlogbrother. Author of The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and Everything is Tuberculosis. Two decades of thinking publicly about hope, suffering, attention, and the beauty of ordinary things.

Hope & despairMeaning-makingMental healthAttentionStorytellingImagining complexlyGlobal healthCommunityThe ordinary as profoundYouth & coming of ageEducationDeath & impermanence
205
atoms
385
connections
0
editions
12
clusters
Free in Beta

8 AI skills included

Works with Claude, Cursor, Gemini CLI

Full knowledge graph access

Explore this brain

Browse all 205 atoms, connections, and thinking patterns. This is what you get.

8 thinking skills included

Chain skills into workflows: Decision (/advise → /debate → /coach), Learning (/teach → /evolve → /coach), Creative (/surprise → /connect → /predict).

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/advise

Strategic counsel on your decisions

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/teach

Learn concepts through their lens

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/debate

Stress-test ideas or pit positions head-to-head

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/connect

Find unexpected bridges or synthesize ideas

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/evolve

Track how their thinking changed over time

/surprise

Surface an unexpected insight

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/coach

No answers — just the questions they’d ask you

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/predict

Trace second and third-order effects

What's in the pack

brainsfor-john-green/
SKILL.md ← brain setup (one-time)
brain-context.md ← THE LLM file (full knowledge)
brain-atoms.json ← structured data + connections
explore.html ← visual brain explorer
README.md
skills/
advise/SKILL.md
teach/SKILL.md
debate/SKILL.md
... 7 more skills

Built from public sources only

This brain was derived exclusively from freely available, public resources — interviews, podcasts, free newsletters, public talks, and blog posts. No transcripts from commercial works or paywalled essays were used. Where book ideas appear, they come from public discourse: reviews, author interviews, press coverage, and widely discussed concepts.

Install in seconds

Claude Code / Cowork

$ npx skills add brainsfor/john-green

Cursor

$ npx skills add brainsfor/john-green

Manual

Download the pack and drop brain-context.md into your AI tool's project context.