Newsletters
Do You Want To Hear The Truth? (Newsletter 029)
Although we are blind to many of our imperfections, our colleagues' vision is perfect when identifying our flaws. Others see what we cannot.
Stoics
These posts deal with stoic philosophy from the ancient Greeks and Romans, and how stoicism can help us learn how to lead better lives
Moral Letters
058 - On Existence - Moral Letters for Modern Times
If wishes could create reality, would we live in paradise or hell? I fear we are on the path to finding out.
Moral Letters
057 - On Outrunning Yourself - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Though we travel to the ends of the earth, we cannot outrun ourselves. Rather than looking to travel in more luxury and greater style, we should sit still with ourselves and consider whether we are running to something or running away from it.
Newsletters
Keep Your Cool (Newsletter 028)
Long-term success as a senior manager requires you to keep your cool. You need to be adept in handling information overload and remaining calm when others have lost their cool.
Moral Letters
056 - On Calm Amidst Bedlam - Moral Letters for Modern Times
To retire from work life does not mean you have retired from your worries. To take the one step without taking the other is to change places but not position.
Moral Letters
055 - On Cohen's Condos - Moral Letters for Modern Times
We assume the prominent are thrilled with their privileges, and made content thereby. But what do we know of their inner thoughts, their joys and their worries?
Moral Letters
018 - On Deprivation - Moral Letters for Modern Times
You do not need what you think you need to be happy, because all you need is within you.
Moral Letters
054 - On Existence And Its Opposite - Moral Letters for Modern Times
There is not one of us who could not be carried off today. What does it say if you cannot say you are living today, but only preparing for a tomorrow that may never come?
Moral Letters
053 - On Knowing Your Limits - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Awkwardness, thy name is Smalltalk! And to know that I will inflict myself on an unwitting dinner table with my unwitty remarks makes me wish most fervently to return to my hermit’s cave.
Moral Letters
052 - On Role Models - Moral Letters for Modern Times
Those who see much while believing they know little are much rarer and more valuable than those who believe they know much and consequently see little.
Moral Letters
051 - On Seven Popular Places - Moral Letters for Modern Times
For those who are training their minds, solitude may be the best way to avoid early unwelcome tests. If you do not wish to be tempted, do not wander blithely through the bazaar of modern desires.
Newsletters
With Experience Comes ... Patience (Newsletter 025)
Is there any way to become mindful without age and experience? I believe philosophy holds a potential key, and Stoicism in particular. It is mindfulness itself that grants us agency over our thoughts. We can think ourselves unwell, or well.