One of my favorite movies is Memento.
Why? Because I don’t experience time—or tasks—in a straight line.
I think in loops. Spirals. Recursions. So I got six tattoos—each one a step, a symbol, a signal in a 6-part framework. To remind me, every day, what I’m doing.
Just in case I forget. (Which I do. Often.)
So in that spirit, I’m dropping the Table of Contents for this book here. As I complete each chapter, I’ll link to it.
Call it an electronic breadcrumb trail. A living tattoo. A way to stay oriented in the maze.
Also: a space to dialogue. To shape the flow. To test the signal.
Would love to hear your ideas. What do you want to see explored in each chapter?
So here it is:
Table of Contents
Part I: Collapse and Awakening
Chapter 0: Introduction
— Fear, identity, purpose, legacy, ADHD, rebellion, voice, healing.
Chapter 1: Soy Ordinario
— Starting From Zero
Chapter 2: The Wound of Worthiness
— The Design of Healing Through Story and Reflection
Chapter 3: De Negro de Campo to Liberty
— Breaking Colonial Scripts in Creative Work
Chapter 4: The Rough Cut
— Realizing the Film of My Life Needed a New Director
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Part II: The Coherence Method
Chapter 5: The Compass Within
— Discovering My CORE™: a Framework for Alignment
Chapter 6: Who the F Are You?
— The FEDO™: Facing Your Shadow With Humor and Precision
Chapter 7: Designing the New You
— Strategy as Self-Love, Structure as Freedom
Chapter 8: The Retrospective Ritual
— How to Learn Faster Without Losing Your Soul
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Part III: Building The New World
Chapter 9: Creative Misfit (Pirate) Armada
— Community as Calibration
Chapter 10: Portals and Possibility
— What Opens When We Stop Proving and Start Being
Chapter 11: The Director’s Chair
— Choosing the Story You Want to Tell
Chapter 12: Co-Creation at Scale
— Building the Systems That Build Us
About The Signal:
Finding Coherence Inside the Collapse
This is a personal and collective journey through personal identity, transformation, and creative leadership in chaotic times. Blending memoir, leadership, and personal growth, The Signal offers creative leaders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers a compass for navigating uncertainty—building lives and systems rooted in coherence, courage, and connection. Written in community, one chapter at a time with the help of AI.
The objective of this book is to help people gain a deeper sense of clarity, alignment, and personal power—so they can move through the collapse with purpose, co-create meaningful work, and become the architects of a more humane, regenerative future.
Hola, soy José Abraham Caballer.
Soy diseñador, estratega, educador y emprendedor. Con más de 28 años de experiencia, fusiono diseño, negocios y crecimiento personal para ayudar a creativos y organizaciones a prosperar. Soy fundador de The Systm, una comunidad global que co-crea nuevas formas de trabajar, vivir y liderar en un mundo en plena transformación.
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This looks so goooood! Cannot wait to read this.