Dear Reg
I’ve been alive 39 Years.
In that time I’ve seen, felt, read, learned, and reflected on enough to realise that most suffering comes from poor models of how the world actually works.
These letters are an attempt to pass on clearer ones — about responsibility, work, money, relationships, fear, time, and meaning — while you’re still early enough in life for them to matter.
My own Father never really shared how he thought about life. If he had, it would have saved me years of confusion and unnecessary pain.
This is what I wish he’d given me.
They’re written for you, but they’re not only for you.
If they help you, your siblings – or anyone else — think more clearly and choose more deliberately, they’ve done their job.
- Taking Ownership Changes Everything
- Trade Short-Term Pleasure For Long Term Fulfilment
- The Two Decision Making Forces
- Realising You’ve Already Won (and why it matters)
- Dig the Well Before You’re Thirsty
- Why No One Wins an Argument
- A Clear Way to Think About Money
- Why Remembering You’ll Die Makes You Live
- Making Sense of People
- Why You Should Give Advice to a ‘Friend’
- Why Acquiring Skills Makes You Happy