Twenty-two rules one person actually tries to live by — on attention, work, other people, setbacks, and the long run. Held loosely, revised often.
5 chapters · 22 rules
This is a personal rule book, not advice for anyone else. It is the honest, revisable version of here is what I have figured out so far — clearly a set of opinions, never dressed up as fact.
Anyone assembling their own set of principles. Borrow what is useful, argue with the rest, and go write your own edition.
Added the chapter on setbacks. Reworded On Other People after a hard year taught me better.
Split On Work from On Attention. Cut three rules I no longer believe.
Twelve rules in a notebook — the start of everything here.
“I do not agree with all of them, and that is the point — it made me sit down and write my own.”
“Feel it, then function is going up on the wall. We argued about half the list for an hour.”
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