Book in progress · drafting in public
Three Stones is a book about choosing what matters — how to decide what to carry and what to put down, in work, in family, in the quiet hours when no one is asking anything of you.
The premise
You can only carry three stones at a time. Pick them up too easily and they all start to feel the same weight. Pick them up too late and you find you’ve been carrying gravel instead. The book is a set of short essays — somewhere between a manual and a memoir — about which stones to put down and which ones to keep, even when keeping them is the harder choice.
How to read along
Chapters land here as drafts. Some are short, some are very short. None of them are finished — that’s the point. Sign up via RSS if you want them as they appear, or drop me a note at hello@sam.blog if a particular stone is on your mind.
Recent essays in this thread
Chapters incoming. The first batch is in the queue for review.