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  • Discipline is Destiny – Book review

    The Stoics, like the Buddhists, liked making lists of stuff, and virtue, what they considered “the highest good”, is actually four different things. Wisdom, courage, temperance and justice. Ryan Holiday has decided to write…

  • Toughing it out

    Laziness is contagious. We’re supposed to just nod along like it’s normal that everyone’s just surrendered to a banal existence? Nyad (2023) “I get tired of sitting on cushions. Cushions in my car, cushions…

  • Partly cloudy

    It’s just one of those days where you don’t want to wake upEverything is fucked, everybody sucks Break stuff – Limp Bizkit When I’m clutched by a bad mood, a simple question like should…

  • Nowhere to hide

    Sensing types are not up in the clouds. Their feet are planted firmly on the ground. They like to get their hands dirty. Talk shop. Sensing types are found in a rugby scrum, behind…

  • Unleashed

    This time I’ma let it all come out / This time I’ma stand up and shout My way – Limp Bizkit Imagine you’re walking down a street and you come across a little black,…

  • Conditions

    Epictetus was an emancipated Greek slave turned Stoic philosopher living in the Roman Empire (55-135 AD). Many of his thoughts around what it means to be free have been collected into the short book…

  • A lone Swim – Sunday #1

    Trialling a new way to write publicly. Rather than preparing an article every week, I’ll share some of my personal notes. Here are a few of them from the past week. Big fish On…

  • The intruder

    It was obvious within the first five minutes. Balls weren’t bouncing where they should. No one could volley, or rally, or serve. This tennis lesson was a disaster. Everyone looked dejected. What was going…

  • A few things I believe about exercise

    I don’t consider the body to be my own, because I lack for nothing, and because the law is the only thing I esteem, nothing else. Diogenes See what daily exercise does for one.…