Contemporary Heroic Instructional Fiction

Is there any fiction today that is also heroic (hero's journey in service of the Transcendentals, not swords) and instructional? Triangulating among

• Optimistic Near Future Vision
• Greatest Books
• the business fiction/parables of Eli Goldratt, Gene Kim, the Jerry Weinberg cabal....

Venkatesh Rao is trying to play in that space (well, more precisely fun as a story AND as a bit of consulting how-to advice), as are his Yak Collective brethren.

• I listed some other candidates, besides those I noted above.

There's the sci-fi heroism of the Stiegler BrainTrust and other series. But that's too sci-fi and not instructional enough. There's the Kurzweil Danielle attempt at inspiration, but that has similar issues.

There's the collapse/doomsday preppers who use novels to teach you about metallurgy and Un-Civilization Technology.

cf competence porn