A series of books for living with clarity, health, and meaning
Rooted in science, philosophy, and lived experience, Manuals of Life offers practical guides and thoughtful essays for people who want to live with clarity, health, and meaning.
Two series. One philosophy.
The Manuals
The Manuals of Life are structured guides for essential domains of living, including health, thinking, meaning, behaviour, attention, relationships, and the inner life. Each book focuses on one domain.
LIVE
A Manual for the Examined Life.
UPGRADE
A Blueprint for Energy, Health and Longevity.
LIBERATE
A Manifesto for the Thinking Human.
The Sketches
The Sketches of Life are reflective essays written from ordinary moments. Walking. Sleepless nights. Memory. Time. Kindness. These books do not instruct. They notice.
What I Think About When I WALK WITH BESS
What I Think About When I CAN NOT SLEEP
The Manuals of Life philosophy of living well is a grounded worldview about agency, clarity, responsibility, and the reality of limits. Neither ideological nor mystical. Practical, secular, and human.
The Reflections
The Reflections are shorter pieces written between books. They explore ideas in motion: observations, questions, and provisional thoughts that are not yet manuals and not meant to be.
The Advanced Reader Circle
The Advanced Reader Circle is a small, private group of early readers who are invited to engage with selected Manuals of Life titles before public release.
Why This Exists
Manuals of Life exists because many intelligent people were never taught how to live deliberately.
We were taught how to perform, comply, succeed, and optimise. We were rarely taught how to care for our bodies, examine our beliefs, build meaning, protect our attention, or live consciously within limited time.
These books exist to address that gap. Calmly. Seriously. Without slogans or shortcuts.