What's The Alternative?
“All around you see things you don’t like. Bad people getting away with stuff. The wrong incentives being offered, sending trends off in an alarming direction. Perhaps you’re worried about cancel cult...
25 Jun 20212min
The Present Is All There Is | The Truly Educated Aren’t Quarrelsome
“There’s a constant internal tension within Meditations—between urgency and patience, contemplation and action, focusing in and zooming out. Marcus tells us to forget the future, on the one hand, then...
24 Jun 20217min
Classics Scholar Shadi Bartsch on What Ancient Texts Reveal About Modern Life | This Is Making You Who You Are
Ryan read today’s meditation and talks to Classics scholar and professor Shadi Bartsch about Seneca’s contradictory service to the emperor Nero, why the classics are still relevant and important in mo...
23 Jun 20211h 8min
Don't Complain, Respond!
“We live in a time when people who hear opinions they dislike think they can demand those opinions be unsaid or never repeated. How dare you criticize _______! Why did you have to go and get all polit...
22 Jun 20213min
You Can’t Let People Puff You Up | Take A Walk
“As it is today, so it was in Rome. People have always tried to tell other people what they want to hear. Yeah, you’re doing great. Have you lost weight? I love your new haircut, boss. As a species, h...
21 Jun 20217min
Marcus Aurelius' Most Important Education Came From This Man
Want more Stoic inspired parenting wisdom? Subscribe to the Daily Dad Podcast, read each morning by Ryan on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and all other streaming platforms.On today’s episode of t...
20 Jun 202112min
Malcolm Gladwell on Running, Writing, and Storytelling
On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to Malcolm Gladwell about his new book The Bomber Mafia which is an exploration of how technology and good intentions collided in the heat of the second w...
19 Jun 20211h 14min
What Did You Learn?
“There’s no question that the last year and a half has been tragic. Millions of people have perished in a merciless pandemic, millions more are still dealing with the consequences. Businesses were des...
18 Jun 20212min
