Courses

Five series, four classes each. Twenty classes in all, on the three pillars of a good life: health, wealth, and wisdom.

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

Small Habits That Make a Big Difference

The premise is that the world is organized to take your attention, your health, your money, and your time, and that small daily habits are how you take them back. The series builds one habit at a time: winning the morning first, then the body, then money, then the discipline of continued learning. Consistency does the work that intensity cannot.

Life's Obstacles

How to Prepare for and Handle Adversity

Life is an obstacle course, and the obstacles are the course. This series covers what to do before hardship arrives, how to hold expectations that survive contact with reality, and how meaning gets made afterward. It leans on Viktor Frankl, on Stoic practice, and on the observation that opposition looks like a feature of the design rather than a flaw in it.

Think Better

Discernment, Mind Traps, Mental Models, and Mindset

Discernment is a skill, not a trait, which means it can be practiced. The four classes cover telling reliable information from noise, the specific ways a mind misleads itself, a working set of frameworks for making decisions, and how mindset governs what you are able to see in the first place. Charlie Munger's latticework idea sits underneath it.

Getting Stuff Done

A Mindful Approach to Personal Productivity

Productivity without direction is efficient misalignment. The series starts by separating the few things that matter from the many that do not, then builds a system simple enough to survive a busy week, then tunes the tools that hold email, notes, tasks and files. It ends on attention itself, which is now the object of a well funded contest you never agreed to enter.

The Human Body

An Owner's Manual for Occupants

An owner's manual for the machine you live in. Four classes on fuel, movement, rest, and repair: why ultra-processed food overrides appetite, why exercise behaves more like medicine than recreation, why sleep is the foundation that the other three rest on, and what actually happens inside the body when major systems begin to fail.

This material is education, not medical advice. It is not a substitute for talking with your own physician.

Attending a Course

I teach these to groups throughout the year. If you would like me to bring one to yours, the speaking page has the details.

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