The Minimum Viable Fire

The Minimum Viable Fire

Finding Your Floor and Tending Your Flame Through Life's StormsBy Filippo Borselli
Michael Caine
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Length3h 43m

About this audiobook

This book offers a new framework for sustainable resilience, challenging modern self-help that fails in crisis. It introduces the core concept of the Minimum Viable Fire (MVF): the art of protecting a single glowing coal when everything else burns away, rather than trying to maintain a performative bonfire. The goal is to find your floor—the absolute minimum you need to function during a storm, without shame. Through practices like building your "woodpile" of reserves in calm times and learning the revolutionary art of the "Keeper's Rest", you move from survival to sustainability. The keeper's law is "Wood Over Wind"—focus on what you can control, not the chaos you can't. This is a guide to becoming a keeper of your own flame, with the radical permission that your minimum is always enough.

Audiobook details

GenreSelf-Help, Health and Wellness
Length3 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 15, 2025
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Credits
10Chapter 6: Building the Hearth
2Preface
11Chapter 7: The Minimum Viable Fire
3Prologue
12Chapter 8: The Witnesses You Can Find
4Introduction
13Chapter 9: The Woodpile and the Keeper’s Rest
5Chapter 1: The Ember and the Threshold
14Chapter 10: Small Hearths
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6Chapter 2: The Kindling and the Windbreak
15Chapter 11: Quiet Offering
7Chapter 3: The Three Logs of the Hearth
16Chapter 12: The Long Glow
8Chapter 4: A Clearer Light
17Epilogue
9Chapter 5: The Inner Weather

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