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Tag: stoicism
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The Spreadsheet of Your Remaining Tuesdays
There are roughly 780 Tuesdays between me and the day my knees give out. I counted last night. The number changed how I felt about this morning.
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Bernard Williams and the Tedium of Immortality
There’s an essay by Bernard Williams, from 1973, that argues you shouldn’t want to live forever. Not because you can’t. Because you’d be bored to madness. The strongest serious argument for the position SuicideFIRE quietly assumes.
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Why Accepting Death Can Sharpen Your Life
A Stoic argument for treating mortality as a regulator on a Tuesday morning, and why the financial math only works once the philosophical work is done.