The short list. Everything here I’ve read or used myself.

Stoicism — start with the sources

  • Meditations — Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays translation). The place to start.
  • Letters from a Stoic — Seneca. Practical, funny, human.
  • Discourses and Selected Writings — Epictetus. The drill sergeant of the three.

Primal & ancestral health

  • Walk daily, lift heavy things a few times a week, sprint occasionally.
  • Eat whole foods your great-grandmother would recognize.
  • Get sunlight early, sleep in the dark, and use cold and heat deliberately.

More detailed guides live in Protocols.


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