Hendrik Deckers is an entrepreneur, scientist, and systems thinker who writes about how to live well in the modern world.

After founding and building an international community in the technology sector, he turned his attention to a quieter but more demanding question. How do we live with clarity, health, and purpose once the usual scripts no longer satisfy.

Hendrik holds degrees in biology, philosophy, and economics. That combination shapes his work. He approaches life as a system that can be understood, questioned, and redesigned without mysticism, slogans, or easy answers. Science provides the evidence. Philosophy provides the questions. Experience provides the friction.

The Manuals of Life grew out of this approach. They are not memoirs and not traditional self help books. They are practical operating guides for adults who want to think clearly, take responsibility for their health and behaviour, build meaningful relationships, and shape a life that feels coherent rather than accidental.

Alongside these structured manuals, Hendrik writes the Sketches of Life. These are reflective essays born from walking, travel, sleepless nights, and ordinary moments that reveal more than grand theories ever do. They are not instructions but observations. Not answers but companionable questions.

Hendrik writes as a researcher, synthesiser, and experimenter in his own life. He does not claim authority by position, but by process. He tests ideas, keeps what works, discards what does not, and stays openly curious about what he may still be wrong about.

He lives in Belgium with his wife Hilde and their dog Bess. Much of his thinking happens while walking, often slowly, occasionally getting lost, and usually asking better questions than he had the day before.