Practical Philosophy

You're never laid off and never safe — you just live in the waiting room.
On the "forever layoff," chronic job insecurity, and what a Stoic slave
who got banished from Rome has to say about it.

Memento mori isn't a deathbed epiphany — it's a daily Stoic habit. Here's how Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus actually used it.

Picture 5:47 a.m. The city is still dark, the coffee is still too hot, and before the phone, the email and the news, you open a book written almost two thousand years ago by a man who ran the largest…

Many of us spend our best energy every day to keep up payments on a version of success we never quite chose. Stillness has started to feel like a fault. A free afternoon brings guilt, as if we had fallen…