“A philosopher is someone who thinks for everyone else?” – the schoolboy asked the philosopher Yakov. “Not really,” Yakov answered. “A philosopher is someone who hides behind everyone else and thinks there.” After the publication of the first book about the philosopher Jacob, his stories, parables and maxims were published in various countries around the world, but this did not change the hero himself. He is not arrogant, he has not become rich, he is still lonely and unlucky in love. But, according to reader reviews, Jacob’s “rules” can change the lives of other people for the better, which is why many were looking forward to the second book, for which more than 150 new texts were written, and the artist Konstantin Batynkov illustrated them. The author of the character and the book is screenwriter and writer Pavel Gelman.