Length2h 31m
About this audiobook
My son asked why he was afraid of the future. Why he was afraid that something would happen to me. To our family. I did not have an answer.
Reflections is what that question opened. Not a philosophy handed over complete, but the record of one person looking directly at the frameworks running underneath his own life: the duty, the discipline, the freedom, the truth and the happiness he had never examined, and the fear of ending that all of them had quietly been organized around.
It moves in three parts, from what runs beneath a single life to what we owe the people and the institutions we build. It closes with Looking Forward, a companion essay on what happens when the storytelling faculty itself is lifted out of the human body, amplified by machines, and returned to us at civilizational scale.
Written for the author's children. Offered to anyone whose footing is not yet solid.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Psychology
Length2 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 18, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Reflections
119 - On Discipline
2Introduction
1210 - On Freedom
31 - The Primal and the Narrative
1311 - On Truth
42 - Three Words
1412 - On Happiness
53 - The Borrowed Suit
1513 - The Duty Outward
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64 - August 22nd
1614 - On Building a Home
75 - The Lens
1715 - On Building a Company
86 - The Unanswerable Question
1816 - On Building a Society
97 - The Alignment
1917 - On Legacy
108 - On Duty
20Looking Forward
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