Ash Balogh

@Nuskylicious This new bit of posting the text AND your take that is contradicted by the text you’re sharing is a really incredible bit to be honest.

He got tired of people making fun of him for posting about the exact same word once a month for the last year, so he’s actually reading textual criticism. Bullying works!

@guhlo Damn. Clear protein sachet war over before it even started. Propel going to clean up.

Tubs of Protein ❌ Individual packets ✅

@can A company started a telehealth service to offer letters of medical necessity as a service similar to Klarna buy now pay later

ill regret asking this but what’s the grift behind everything being hsa/fsa eligible now?

@damccormick13 @jamiequint @trycreate_co I KNOW the fine print says it but honestly people space out fine print! It’s a necessity not an obligation in their mind.

@damccormick13 @jamiequint @trycreate_co You asked how to be more clear? Make the checkbox say “I acknowledge I’m agreeing to a monthly subscription with recurring fees”. Not T&C. And the payment page to say “monthly subscription. Ships every 30 days. Cancel within 1 week of shipment”

Wanted to like @trycreate_co. Tried the product and liked it. Reordered once on my own. Then got hit with an auto-shipment from some click-through-default-subscription-dark-pattern bullshit and now fuck them forever. Never ordering from them again and neither should you.

@themgmtconsult Well you’re right about Prosecco I’ll give you that.

@OpExCoach In a sense, yes. But more importantly, you can only spread their words (announcing you are spreading their words as your "life work") if you read their words. Also, I prefer Prosecco to champagne.

That guy Ryan Holiday is what Nietzsche used to call Bildungsphilister, a person who has some education and perhaps formal knowledge about a subject yet he lacks any genuine artistic depth. He is the Oz Pearlman of intellectuals: a low-level con-man like many who pretends to be some sort of enlightened philosopher. Ryan Holiday wrote a bunch of books on "Stoicism" (or what he believes to have understood about Stoicism) without ever reading the Stoics in their original language. He admits, with pride, that he read "many translations"... he never ever even tried to learn ancient Greek?!? "Spreading the words of the Stoics is my life work", he said - one would think he would actually read their words 😂 He's a marketer, and a very good one, but like all Bildungsphilister (note the plural is the same as the singular in German for this word) loves to appear smarter than he really is. This inclination appears obvious when you read his books (I tried to do that twice, and couldn't go past a few pages): botox-filled pages with platitudes and boring remarks. Anyway, I don't even care about Ryan Holiday but given his latest ad hominem vs Trump's daughter I just wanted to offer my opinion on the guy. Also, I'm not American, I don't care about Trump, his politics and his daughter (I can't even remember her name right now 😂) but I have a reflex repulsion against fake intellectuals. A word of wisdom for Ryan: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"

@GreenPlusAnE @bamumford Then you misunderstood stoicism which demands action on external things. Anger isn’t enough. What are you going to DO about it. That’s what matters.

@bamumford We should get mad about external things.

during my Covid-era early midlife crisis I taught myself ancient greek and then read Epictetus' Enchiridion a couple times I didn't make $10 million, but I did learn that Stoicism is a bad philosophy for men under 60

@JeffDurso @RyanHoliday @jordanklepper @dailystoic Stoicism as your life’s work demands action in the face of injustice. It isn’t just about getting through the trials of your life but about what kind of man you can be by conquering your own challenges. There is no stoicism without action towards the greater good.

Dude - you're better than this. Your books introduced me to Marcus, Epictetus, and other greats who got me to man up and get through the toughest trial of my life. TDS is not your life's work. Stoicism is. Time for you to man up, apologize to Ivanka - and get back to helping others find the power of stoicism. Rooting for you.

Watch the full episode with Jordan Klepper @jordanklepper on the Daily Stoic @dailystoic Youtube Channel.

@romanhelmetguy @pmarca Virtue is the Stoic’s highest ideal. Apatheia clears irrational passion so virtue can act. You are wrong on passions as well. Diogenes Laertius documents the Stoics catalogued eupatheiai good emotions one should cultivate. Apatheia is absence of irrational passion.

@pmarca People will tell you that stoicism isn’t about apathy. Those people don’t know that “apathy” is a Greek loanword that comes to us from the Stoics. Apatheia. It was the Stoics’ highest ideal. And it literally means “lack of passion.”

Many people are (suddenly) saying.

@HenryHonto The very beginning of your article mistakes what the Stoics meant by Understanding what is under your control and what is not. And because you don’t understand their lesson you then misunderstand Ryan’s critique of Ivanka’s misuse of Stoic ideals.

@HenryHonto It is laughable for you to write an entire article lamenting assignation of guilt by association rather than personal responsibility and then employ that same tactic when trying to defend your errors. It deserves laughter.

@HenryHonto This is because you have an opinion, and then make up reasons to justify it, rather than look at things as they are and then come to a conclusion. Which is quite ironic isn’t it considering your diatribe regarding Ryan.

@HenryHonto lol you say Ryan’s mistake was assigning fault to Ivanka for her fathers faults and that is bad. Then say I am at fault because two people I don’t know or follow follow me lol. You are very consistent in your inconsistencies.

@HenryHonto You misstated his argument and his information environment. Would you not say that’s a straw man considering both your premises are not true? You just completely made both up

@OpExCoach Not really a strawman. I did throw in some hyperbole but it's obvious from his reaction to Ivanka and the word salad he used in that video what his information environment is.

@HenryHonto Your entire predicate is his "information environment" but you've completely misstated his information environment. I'm not sure it's worth reading or responding to the rest considering such large errors in establishing your argument. you strawmanned the whole thing

@HenryHonto Clearly you do not know or follow ryan. He famously regularly publishes book recommendations including contemporary books and owns a book store! In the first few paragraphs you've already made category errors and misstated plain facts about the author. Sloppy work.

@shellenberger Which is what Ryan is explaining. True application of the Stoic ideals she parrots would compel action by her had she truly embraced them. Stoicism, if anything, is an active philosophy. Not just words to repeat to excuse your cowardice inaction.

@shellenberger Your loyalty, in stoicism, is not to a person, but to all persons by active pursuit of the cardinal virtues. Of course, Justice being the one at issue here. And the reminder of what's in your control is not an excuse to inaction, it is reminding you of what your action must be.

Stoicism values humility, emotional control, and loyalty to family. And yet America's leading popularizer of it, @RyanHoliday, displays none of those qualities in his angry, TDS-fueled condemnation of @IvankaTrump. He displays an arrogance every wisdom tradition warns against.