Capital Cluster D — Biological Maintenance
Existential Maintenance Log
Four calculators for the costs that don't show up on the bank statement.
Sleep, social connection, mental bandwidth, and living arrangement are capital costs the accounting books ignore. Social Latency Engine scores the energy tax of a hangout against its connection payoff. Burnout Monitor maps sleep hours to cognitive output, exposing the point where lost sleep costs more than the work produced. Stability Coefficient computes the sanity premium of living alone vs with roommates in hard rent percentages. Dopamine Minimum finds the single task most likely to break a low-energy fog. Human capital shows up on the balance sheet whether you account for it or not.
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- Social Latency — Energy tax of social connection, scored.
- Burnout Monitor — Where lost sleep costs more than extra work produces.
- Stability Coefficient — The sanity premium of living alone.
- Dopamine Minimum — The single task most likely to break the fog.
Tools in this cluster
Social Latency
Compare the benefit of a social plan against the time, energy, and money it costs.
Burnout Monitor
Estimate when extra work hours stop being worth the fatigue cost from lost sleep.
Stability Coefficient
What percent of your labor pays for the sanity premium of living alone vs with a roommate? Peace-vs-capital slider.
Dopamine Minimum
Pick the ONE task with the best visibility-to-effort ratio when a full to-do list is too much to face.
Curated guides
- Social LatencyROI = (intensity × 10) ÷ (energy + money). ≥1 → UPLINK.
- Burnout MonitorCognitive output drops sharply below 6 hours; 4h sleep = 60% capacity.
- Stability Coefficient$700 premium ÷ $3,200 income = 21.9% of labor for silence.
- Dopamine MinimumMomentum = visibility ÷ effort. The top task gets the glowing button.
Other capital clusters
- Cluster A — Strategic CapitalSolopreneur Health CheckCan the side-hustle carry the salary yet? Run the four numbers that decide.
- Cluster B — Scarcity TriagePoverty Trap Exit-MapFour calculators for the week when cash is shorter than the month.
- Cluster C — Operational ScalingDeveloper Efficiency AuditFour calculators that separate infrastructure cost from infrastructure theatre.
Frequently asked questions
› Why quantify mental and social state at all? Troubleshooting
Because untracked costs compound silently. Naming the premium on living alone as a dollar figure, or the cost of six-hour nights as a cognitive multiplier, forces the tradeoff into the same frame as rent and salary.
› Are these tools prescriptive?
No. The output is numerical — a multiplier, a ratio, a rank. The decision stays with the user.