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Every essay, in order. Philosophy, health, career, brotherhood, and the lives worth studying.
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Sleep as a Stoic Discipline — Part III: The 14-Day Protocol
Sleep as a Stoic Discipline · Part III of IV In Part I we made the philosophical case.…
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The Cursus Honorum, Part II: The Quaestor No One Was Watching
The tribune’s discipline had an audience of one general who might notice. The quaestor’s discipline has an audience…
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The Meditations, Decoded — Part III: Book Three, On Brevity and the Examined Life
The Meditations, Decoded · A twelve-part reading of Marcus Aurelius · Part III of XII Book Two ended…
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Monday #6 — The Thing About Being a Father When You Didn’t Have One
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 6 My mother did everything. Not as a metaphor. Literally. She worked…
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Seneca’s Letter on Time: On the Shortness of Life
The most important thing Seneca ever wrote. And the most uncomfortable. Seneca wrote De Brevitate Vitae — On…
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