Category Practical Philosophy

Reading Time: 6 minutesYou'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.

Reading Time: 6 minutesMemento mori isn't a deathbed epiphany — it's a daily Stoic habit. Here's how Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus actually used it.

Reading Time: 7 minutes‘It’s 5:47 a.m. The city outside is still dark. My coffee steams on the desk, and before I open my phone — before email, before news, before the noise — I open a book that was written…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are draining our own life force every single day, just to pay installments on a gold-plated coffin named “success.” The most bitter paradox of our modern age is that humanity now fears stillness more than death…