The Blog
Practical reading guides to the books worth arguing with — where to start, which translation to buy, and the ideas that make each one click.
Reading Guides
Most people abandon Meditations about fifteen pages in. They were handed the wrong door. Here's the reading order nobody tells first-timers about.
11 August 2026 · 9 min read
Reading Guides
Nearly every list tells you to start with Meditations. It's the worst of the three to begin with — and here's the order that actually works.
11 August 2026 · 8 min read
Applied Philosophy
Modern cognitive therapy openly credits Epictetus as an ancestor. Here's what the Stoics actually said about anxious thinking — and where it stops being enough.
11 August 2026 · 9 min read
Reading Guides
They aren't three versions of the same book. One is talking to himself, one to a friend, one to a room of students — and which you need depends on what's wrong.
11 August 2026 · 8 min read
AI & Reading
I built one of these, so treat me as interested rather than neutral. Here's what AI book conversation actually does, where it fails, and when to just read the thing.
11 August 2026 · 7 min read