Robert Burton

@RyanHoliday Congrats on the book! Writing here to let you know there's a misspelling of its title in your profile. Keep up the fine work! Have you ever considered branching out and working with De Rerum Natura? Underrated!

Signed 6,000+ copies in 48 hours. The book is out 9/27, but I put together a bunch of awesome bonuses, like signed pages from the drafts of the book, two full bonus chapters, and the Spotify playlist I used while writing the book. Visit dailystoic.com/preorder.

@jeremy_linaburg Invest in an anti-chair: the Swopper. Pricey, German, and takes some getting used to. But it's the most effective platform for human movement while working. You can always check Craigslist or eBay too, depending on your location.

My office chair kills my butt! It's stylish but not comfortable at all. Any suggestions on office chairs? 🧐

@amix3k I read it last summer-- a great complement to the doist ethos I think. We just need an "Embracing finitude" template for todoist now! (See the appendix) I'm reading Johann Hari's Stolen Focus right now, which you might also find a worthwhile addition to your "to read" stack.

“Four Thousand Weeks: The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.” 😳 I've started to read this book: goodreads.com/en/book/show/5…

Melancholy in this sense is the character of mortality.

...so godly, so divine that can vindicate himself; so well composed, but more or less, some time or other, he feels the smart of it.

And from these melancholy dispositions, no man living is free, no Stoic, none so wise, none so happy, none so patient, so generous,

Sapientia non invenitur in terra suaviter viventium [wisdom is not found in those who live at ease].

which they sell to us again, at as great a reckoning as the whole.

and severally improve, sending the same to us back at dear rates, or else make toys and baubles of the tails of them,

We send our best commodities beyond the seas, which they make good use of to their necessities, set themselves a-work about,

[Folly and madness, when widely diffused, cease to be either ridiculous or strange]. 'Tis with us, as it was of old...

Societas erroris et dementiae pariter absurditatem et admirationem tollit.

for which we pray, run, ride, go, come, labour, and contend as fishes do for a crumb that falleth into the water.

hands, affections, all: that most powerful goddess, by whom we are reared, depressed, elevated, esteemed the sole commandress of our action,

Our summum bonum is commodity, and the goddess we adore Dea Moneta, Queen Money, to whom we daily offer sacrifice, which steers our hearts,

Prosperum et felix scelus virtus vocatur [vice, when successful, is called virtue].

Never so much cause of laughter as now, never so many fools and madmen.

No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find, My subject is of man and humankind.

All my joys to this are folly, naught so sweet as melancholy.