The Daily Stoic

I was just reading Camus, The Plague. And this guy's like, he's been working on the first sentence in this book for like 10 years or something.

I've been listening on Audible to this biography of Napoleon by Andrew Robertson.

Tom Clancy\hunt for Red October came out in fifth grade\so I mean I was engrossed in that little technical you know for a fifth grader

he signed a very nice copy for me and that's what we talked about in today's episode

his new book as part of the terminal list series the new book is called In the Blood it's great

we recorded a live podcast out on the back porch at the painted porch the stowa if you will we have a mural that's inspired by the ancient stowa stowa meaning porch in ancient Greek where stowaism was founded the stowa poquila so I thought it was fitting

Eric was the one who told me, 'Make sure you write down everything interesting you find,' and I have ever since.

The flames appeared as a wave bending over him, he writes of one man fleeing the fire.

In his poem, If, Redyard Kipling prepares his son to bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.

And then I read a few business books like the E-Myth 3 visited and things like that which talked about the power of building a system so then I was like all right cool this isn't just me making stuff up as I go systems design is actually a thing so let's lean into that so now we try and convert everything into a system

He has a new book that came out in January called Straight Shooter, a memoir of second chances and first takes.

And it's about the highs and lows of his careers, his thoughts on all the controversies and arguments he's gotten in, thoughts on the biggest stories in sports and his quite nearly fatal bout of COVID.

Check out Straight Shooter, a memoir of second chances and first take.

to have a doctor tell you 90 minutes before the ball is dropping in Times Square, that we're going to try these steroids and these antibiotics. If it doesn't work, we need to call your family because you're in pretty bad shape.

to have them show you an x-ray where you're looking at your lungs and a little spot in your lungs could potentially show that you have pneumonia. And my entire lungs was covered in white. It looked like clouds in the sky. You saw nothing but white there on x-ray.

He's like, it's called The Shadow Work Journal. And he's like, it's bringing up all this stuff.

And he was like, hey, I just read this amazing book. He's like, my son, his older son had seen this TikTok video, read this book and had gotten him a copy.

Someone had made a video about it on TikTok and it had sold, self-published a million copies. Again, that does not happen. That is unreal.

And he's like, it's bringing up all this stuff.

She was fulfilling the million copies herself.

His book The Men Who Stare at Goats was turned into a delightful movie with George Clooney

but I I so admire what a positive impact he's had on people who are in poverty and also on animals I mean and that book Animal Liberation just jump started a movement that has led to you know although the suffering of animals is still still tremendous it's a lot less than it would be if there was no Peter Singer

I'm reading Peter Singer's a new book or you republished the one about The Life You Can Save and it's like you know if you start to think about what your money once you begin to think about it I just to think about how your money can be used for good almost every extraneous thing becomes so morally fraught as to be almost paralyzed like there was one effective altruist I was reading about who was saying that things should be priced in terms of how many children's lives could be saved at the same amount