Don’t Let Them Make You Bitter Or Mean
Whatever you decide to do with your life, whatever path you decide to walk, people are going to stand in your way. They’re going to doubt you. They’re going to give you bad advice. They will do you wr...
26 Apr 20233min
Don’t Waste Your Gifts | The Secret To Better Habits in 2023
There is, as we have talked about many times, a tinge of sadness in the story of Seneca. This immensely talented and wise man spent the best years of his life advising and collaborating with one of th...
25 Apr 20238min
You Can Never Do This Twice | The Freedom Of Contempt
The first time was revelatory. The first time you watched Mad Men. Or The Godfather. Or cracked open Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Or heard Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ or listened to Fantine sing, I Drea...
24 Apr 20239min
The Life of Cleanthes
In today's audiobook reading, Ryan presents the biography of the great Stoic philosopher, boxer, and successor to Zeno of Citium as the second head of the Stoic school of Athens, Cleanthes. Written by...
23 Apr 202311min
Sarah Bakewell on Humanism and The Power of Connection
Ryan speaks with Sarah Bakewell about her new book Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope, how growing up surrounded by books shaped her philosophical mindse...
22 Apr 20231h 3min
There Is No More Or Less Time | Don't Let Your Attention Slide
Three years removed from those eerie and strange days of the early pandemic, one thing that strikes us is how much time we seemed to have then. People were picking up hobbies, slow cooking elaborate m...
21 Apr 20238min
Can You Fight To See Their Side? | Ask DS
One gets the sense that Seneca, like many smart and active people, was often frustrated by other people. It is inevitable that someone like him—someone creating art, actively participating in governme...
20 Apr 202311min
Comedian Katherine Blanford on Laughing At Life
Ryan speaks with Katherine Blanford about her earning things throughout her comedy career, her Catholic upbringing, why the funniest moments come from a dark place, how her mother influences her comed...
19 Apr 20231h 10min
