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Every essay, in order. Philosophy, health, career, brotherhood, and the lives worth studying.

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The Friendship Problem — Part III: The Effort Problem
The Friendship Problem · Part III of V In Part I we looked at why men lose friends…
29 Jul 20269 min read
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Monday #5 — Good Men Don’t Manipulate. They Just Are.
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 5 Let me be clear about something before I say anything else.…
27 Jul 20266 min read
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The Meditations, Decoded — Part II: Book Two, Obligation and the Present Moment
The Meditations, Decoded · A twelve-part reading of Marcus Aurelius · Part II of XII In Book One,…
26 Jul 202611 min read
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The Cursus Honorum, Part I: The Tribune Who Had Not Yet Earned the Right to Command
Every career has a stage where you hold a title but not yet the authority that should go…
24 Jul 20267 min read
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Premeditatio Malorum: The Stoic Art of Imagining the Worst
The practice that looks like pessimism and works like armour. Seneca wrote a letter to Lucilius that begins…
22 Jul 20269 min read
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Monday #4 — The Anger That Has Nowhere to Go
The Unfiltered · Monday · No. 4 I am so fucking angry. Not at anything specific. That’s the…
20 Jul 20265 min read
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