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Stoic Backgammon is Live

Stoic Backgammon is Live The dice choose the numbers. You choose the move. Stoic Backgammon is now available on Amazon. Hardcover is live now; paperback and Kindle coming in June. This book is not a strategy guide with philosophy sprinkled on top. It is not a Stoicism book with dice metaphors. It is both, and it is neither. Nine chapters, each built around a backgammon concept and a Stoic principle. The anchor. The blitz. The prime. The bear-off. ...

April 21, 2026 · 1 min · 211 words · Phil Huffman

All My Books

Eight books. Different subjects, different tones — but the same underlying preoccupations: clarity, proportion, and the work of living well. Browse below, and if something catches your attention, the cover image will take you to Amazon. Unstuck Unstuck is not a gentle book. It is a direct challenge to the habits of delay, justification, and self-deception that keep capable people from moving forward. Drawing on Stoic discipline and decades of lived experience, it argues that most obstacles are not external — they are internal negotiations we have learned to accept. ...

March 14, 2026 · 8 min · 1554 words · Phil Huffman