Show HN: A book of field notes for early life (free this weekend)

It’s so damn frustrating. Wisdom can help you avoid much of life’s quicksand. And most of it isn't secret or complicated. It's just hard to internalize, especially when you're young.

As you grow up, your elders keep floating the same tired advice, as if their phrases can be pocketed and wielded like crucifixes against the constant suck of life’s vampires. Those vampires being poor choices, corrosive people, meaningless dramas, and the same mistakes, over and over. Things that make you look up at the night sky, head so far back your mouth is open, and think, It’s like I’m not even here. I’m leaving nothing behind.

But here’s the light: Real wisdom has little to do with raw intelligence, wealth, or status. It has much more to do with things like attentiveness, humility, and stamina.

These Field Notes are for people who are skeptical of self-help but walking the path of personal development. They're observations and suggestions written for the curious and the stubborn alike.This book is for you if...

• You're self-taught and curious, but allergic to academic pretension.
• No one handed you an emotional service manual growing up.
• You want rational ideas that stick and actually change things.
• You're ready to think for yourself.

Inside, you'll find compressed insights and an invitation to wrestle with ideas in new ways. Hunt for flaws. Cross things out. Scribble cleaner ideas in the margins. Because real wisdom only arrives when you make ideas your own, when your ideas collide with your lived experience.