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  • Adversity is a terrible thing to waste



    1–2 minutes

    In this episode of the Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday interviews Will Guidara, author of Unreasonable Hospitality — read it if you haven’t. I paused when Guidara said: “Adversity is a terrible thing to waste.” It’s a well-formed phrase for an idea I’ve been turning over for a while. You see, lately, I’ve been thinking about…

  • Cognitive Inheritance: Why Your Parents Trust the News That Lies to Them



    1–2 minutes

    Cognitive inheritance explains why your parents trust the news that failed them. They aren’t gullible — the system earned their faith, then abandoned it.

    Walter Cronkite on television — the face of cognitive inheritance in broadcast journalism
  • The City That Never Finishes



    1–2 minutes

    In the center of Paris, at her beating heart, burns a furnace of fire and flame. A white-hot mass with a gravitational pull on those susceptible to her charm. This magnetic force draws you in, warms your soul, and if you are lucky enough to surrender to it, you become one with her. And when…

    The ornate medieval clock on the Conciergerie building in Paris, gold figures against a blue tiled facade
  • Cognitive Inheritance: Why Your Parents Trust the News That Lies to Them



    10–15 minutes

    Cognitive inheritance explains why your parents trust the news that failed them. They aren’t gullible — the system earned their faith, then abandoned it.

    Walter Cronkite on television — the face of cognitive inheritance in broadcast journalism
  • The City That Never Finishes



    7–10 minutes

    In the center of Paris, at her beating heart, burns a furnace of fire and flame. A white-hot mass with a gravitational pull on those susceptible to her charm. This magnetic force draws you in, warms your soul, and if you are lucky enough to surrender to it, you become one with her. And when…

    The ornate medieval clock on the Conciergerie building in Paris, gold figures against a blue tiled facade
  • High Tech, Low Touch



    1–2 minutes

    A journey through San Francisco’s transportation layers—from legacy taxis to runaway Waymos—and what it reveals about empathy, experience, and the systems we’re building

    Sunset over city San Francisco skyline and bay area highlighting a high tech, low touch environment
  • High Tech, Low Touch



    10–15 minutes

    A high tech, low touch journey through San Francisco’s transportation layers—from legacy taxis to runaway Waymos—and what it reveals about empathy, experience, and the systems we’re building.

    Sunset over city San Francisco skyline and bay area highlighting a high tech, low touch environment