Overview
The Missing Curriculum for Adult Life.
School taught you how to solve for x. It probably never taught you how to recover from failure, build lasting friendships, handle money wisely, find meaningful work, sit with someone else's grief, or figure out what your life is for.
Reliably Human is the missing curriculum.
Across twelve practical chapters, it explores the durable skills that quietly determine the shape of a life: learning, emotional intelligence, health, resilience, money, work, partnership, friendship, joy, experience, focus, and meaning.
Whether you're twenty-five or seventy-five, these are the skills life eventually demands-and most of us were left to assemble them from scraps: a parent's example, trial and error, good advice, bad advice, and people who were often figuring it out themselves.
I wrote this book after realizing I'd assembled much of my own version the same way: through mistakes, books, mentors, and years of learning lessons later than I would have liked. I wanted the class I never got-and suspected I wasn't the only one.
Now the world is changing faster than ever.
Artificial intelligence and other powerful tools are transforming how we learn, work, and solve problems. But this isn't a book about technology. Technology appears throughout as setting, not subject. Every chapter asks two questions:
Where can these tools genuinely help?
What has to stay yours?Let the machines carry the paperwork, the scheduling, the tutoring, and the joyless hours. Use them generously. But know where the handoff has to stop.
Nothing will sleep for you, sit at a friend's bedside for you, or decide what any of it was for.
Each chapter shows what that skill looks like at twenty, at forty, and at sixty and beyond, then ends with a ten-minute audit you can put into practice this week. No spare decade required. No complete reinvention of your life.
Start anywhere. Chapter three, if your health has been waiting. Chapter five, if money feels more stressful than it should. Chapter eight, if the friendships have gone quiet.
You don't need to reinvent your life. You need the skills that quietly improve it, one decision at a time.
Become more capable. More intentional. More resilient. More reliably human.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798189752209
- ISBN-10: 9798189752209
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: August 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.39 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.56 pounds
- Page Count: 184
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