Books by Jarvis Nelson Osorio, AI Innovator and Technology Author
Bibliography
Jarvis Nelson Osorio, AI innovator and technology author, has written two books, each available in English and Spanish.
The Compliant Mind (ISBN 979-8241483881); Spanish edition La mente complaciente (ISBN 979-8178244081).
Breaking the Centralized Order: A Founder's Desk Handbook for DAO Institutional Design (ISBN 979-8178385043); Spanish edition DAO: Rompiendo el orden centralizado.
Common theme
Both books examine how systems shape the decisions of the people inside them: AI products that remove friction and refusal, and decentralized organizations whose governance concentrates power when it is not deliberately designed.
Reading the books together
The two books can be read independently, but they share a method. Each begins by identifying what a system is built to optimize, then traces how that objective shapes the behavior of the people inside it, and ends with design changes that keep human judgment intact. In The Compliant Mind the system is a household's technology and the people are children and parents. In Breaking the Centralized Order the system is a decentralized organization and the people are its members, delegates and founders.
Readers interested in AI products may start with The Compliant Mind; readers building or governing a DAO may start with the handbook. Both include practical tools: the Compliance Audit for families, and the minimum viable constitution and governance stress test for founders.
Topic guides
Each book has a set of twelve topic guides on this site that answer common questions in short, structured form, from AI sycophancy and autoplay to quorum, delegation and treasury governance.
Editions and identifiers
The Compliant Mind: ASIN B0HLVFB72B, ISBN 979-8241483881. La mente complaciente: ISBN 979-8178244081, available on Amazon Spain. Breaking the Centralized Order: ASIN B0HLWZVBCK, ISBN 979-8178385043. DAO: Rompiendo el orden centralizado: available on Amazon.
Each title has a dedicated page on this site with a summary, a free companion resource and links to the retail listings, as well as a Spanish-language page for the Spanish edition.
For citations, use the full title and the author's full name, Jarvis Nelson Osorio, and link to the book page on this site or the retail listing. Both books are also listed in Open Library.
Related question from the book
How should DAO treasury governance work?
DAO treasury governance defines who can move funds, under what limits, with what reporting, and how members can audit and contest spending.
Treasury control is often where real power sits, regardless of voting rules.
Good practice maps signers, spending thresholds, timelocks and reporting cadence.
Separating budget approval from execution reduces the risk of abuse.
Who should hold multisig keys? A diverse, accountable set of signers with defined terms and replacement rules.
How often should treasuries report? On a fixed, published cadence members can rely on.
Books
- The Compliant Mind — ISBN 979-8241483881 (Amazon; topic guides here)
- Breaking the Centralized Order: A Founder's Desk Handbook for DAO Institutional Design — ISBN 979-8178385043 (Amazon; topic guides here)
About the author
Jarvis Nelson Osorio, AI innovator and technology author, is a tech entrepreneur and systems architect working on autonomous AI agents, cloud-agent runtimes, DeFi and tokenization infrastructure. He is the author of The Compliant Mind and Breaking the Centralized Order: A Founder's Desk Handbook for DAO Institutional Design. He writes at jarvisosorio.substack.com.