My new book, What’s the Point: Turning Purpose Into Your Daily Superpower, comes out next week (April 28th). It’s a book about treating purpose as a practice rather than a destination — something you work on Tuesday morning, not something you find after a long walk on a beach. I will be posting more content from the book over the next few weeks.
But here’s the problem: a book alone isn’t a practice. You read it, you underline something, you close it. That’s not reps. So while we were finishing the manuscript, we built a new batch of tools meant to be the reps. Short, honest, no paywall. They just went live at the new tomrath.org website in time for the launch, so I wanted to give my friends an early look here.
Purpose Preview came from a pattern I kept hearing from readers of my earlier books. Someone would say some version of, “I want more purpose in my work, but I don’t know where to start.” They didn’t want another lengthy interest inventory. They wanted a few honest questions and some practical ideas about what to explore. Purpose Preview is that — five questions, three specific directions on the other side, about three minutes start to finish.
The Graduation Letter Generator came from a conversation I’ve had more times than I can count. A friend with a graduating kid will say they’d love to write a real letter — a specific memory, a specific hope — but wouldn’t know where to start. Meanwhile, every adult I know who has one of those letters from a parent or grandparent still has it, usually in a drawer they open once a year. So we built a tool that asks the three questions that make a letter stick, and produces an initial draft you can polish in a few minutes. Sixty seconds of effort, a gift they keep forever.
We are also working on the following tools for subscribers (also free) at tomrath.org:
- Your Purpose Plan — A deeper dive based on the concepts from the new book
- 50 Purpose Profiles — Explore top careers for AI resistance, contribution, and what a day looks like
- Charging Plan, Contribify, Eat Move Sleep Plan — Tools from earlier books, now all free
The new book comes out April 28. The tools are live now. You don’t need to buy the book to use any of them. But if you find yourself coming back to one — if it helps you describe your work differently, or write a letter you’ve been meaning to write for a year — the book is a deeper dive on those ideas.
If you have any ideas for improving and building on these, send me a message and let me know. These are all initial prototypes, intended to create a conversation. Start wherever fits where you are right now at tomrath.org.