Joshua Fields Millburn

Everything That Remains is the memoir half of a business. Joshua Fields Millburn was a regional director at a telecoms company, running a hundred and fifty shops, when his mother died and his marriage ended in the same month, and he began giving away what he owned. He wrote the book with Ryan Nicodemus, his friend since childhood, who talks back in footnotes throughout. Asymmetrical Press, which they founded themselves, published it in 2014. The two are The Minimalists: a podcast, a large mailing list, two Netflix documentaries, paid speaking, and a publishing operation that has issued their own books and other people's. The advice is not complicated, and they do not pretend it is. What the memoir adds is the sequence of losses that preceded it, which is the part a set of rules cannot supply.