Wick Tendrils Flame

Lessons from Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Arrow of Time in an Age of Mismatch

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Philosophical Nonfiction, Cultural Nonfiction, Social Commentary, Science, Debut, and Nonfiction Novels

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Sep 30, 2026

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Wick Tendrils Flame

Lessons from Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Arrow of Time in an Age of Mismatch

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Blurb

Meaningful insights from the arrow of time, dopamine pathways, and your boring Friday night.

FOMO, anxiety, burnout. The gallery of novel addictions. A general feeling of dissatisfaction as technology makes life easier while living gets harder.

It's not you—it's the second law of thermodynamics and an unwieldy gaggle of modern mismatches.

Wick Tendrils Flame adapts the essential constraints of the arrow of time into an intuitive, visual metaphor. Leaning heavily on peer-reviewed research in neuroscience and behavioral psychology, this physics-grounded framework carves a path through modern maladies. Its promise is purposeful evolution with time's arrow.

This highly accessible book is for people who want more than vibes, banal life hacks, and forgettable quick fixes. Above all, it is for those who are willing to take action and learn from the results.

Progress favors the guided mover, stasis feeds stagnation.

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Genres

Philosophical Nonfiction, Cultural Nonfiction, Social Commentary, Science, Debut, and Nonfiction Novels

Trigger Warnings

None

Type of Ending

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Series

Not part of a series

Author Prefers A Review On

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Number of days to read

Publication Date

Sep 30, 2026

Page Length

188 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

T. Bear is a curious person. ‘Curious’ as in ‘inquisitive,’ but also—probably—a little curious as in ‘strange.’ What makes him strange?

In reading about entropy and the arrow of time, he realized something intriguing and true, then he drew it (poorly), then he put it to work in his life (poorly, then iteratively better over time). A few years later, he started writing an essay about the valuable lessons he’d derived from his layman’s understanding of the arrow of time and its implications, scoffing at anyone who said he should just take a year and write a book about it. He then spent the next year writing and editing a book about it and, four months of joyous self-publishing later, he wrote this bio in the third person and stuck with it, even after it started feeling weird.

If you are also inquisitive—and if truth matters to you—you might want to read Wick Tendrils Flame: Lessons from Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Arrow of Time in an Age of Mismatch.