Two announcements!

New project aims to promote human flourishing

The 2500-year-old writings called the Tao Te Ching is often used as a self-help book. If you want to be a better parent, spouse, business partner, or friend, the ancient Chinese sage Lao Tzu seems to have a lot to offer.

But when I read the Tao Te Ching, I came across something else entirely: a thesis for how people in power (and those subject to that power) should be. This is why, over the last couple of years, I have been offering essays via the Level Up Humanity Substack that seek to connect today’s problems with yesterday’s wisdom.

So, with that, I have two announcements. First, I’m completing the process of publishing the Tao of Liberty, in which I have taken all 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching and applied it to modern governing. Whether you consider yourself liberal, conservative, or somewhere in the middle, I believe you’ll find a lot of useful ideas in the book. Lao Tzu’s advice fits neatly into the modern context; to ignore it would, I think, be a real disservice.

I am asking…