Books

Every book here is an argument for the same proposition — that clarity, discipline, and love are not abstractions. They are the work.

Brutal Guidance for Getting Out of Your Own Way

A direct challenge to the habits of delay and self-deception that keep capable people from moving forward.

Essays on Inner Strength and Resilience

Essays on the daily work of holding yourself together when experience threatens to fragment.

Ancient philosophy applied to the actual conditions of modern civic life.

A Data-Driven Guide to Reinventing Yourself

Continuous glucose monitoring as a discipline of self-knowledge, not just a medical intervention.

Right Subject, Wrong Adjective, Disastrous Result

What happens when the wrong map is applied with discipline — and how to rebuild with different assumptions.

Truth Without Outcome

Correspondence on the difficult topics public discourse avoids: truth, conscience, and the cost of holding a position.

A Profitable Pastime

The ancient game as a literal practice of philosophy — the dice are not up to us; the move is.

Growing up with the Cold War

The lost discipline of matching response to scale, learned growing up in the shadow of the Cold War.

Raising Kids with Agency, Resilience, and Purpose

A year-by-year guide to raising children with agency, resilience, and purpose.