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  • Could This Change Everything For You?
    ​ ​ ​ It was never meant to be seen by prying eyes. It certainly wasn’t meant to be published as a book. It was written in an antiquated, foreign language, full of ancient philosophy that, until recently, few had ever heard of. And the man doing the writing lived a life unimaginably different and distant from yours. Then why bother reading a book like that? How could it possibly affect or improve your life? Yet it is this book that Frederick the Great reportedly
     
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Could This Change Everything For You?

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1 April 2026 at 09:10

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It was never meant to be seen by prying eyes. It certainly wasn’t meant to be published as a book. It was written in an antiquated, foreign language, full of ancient philosophy that, until recently, few had ever heard of. And the man doing the writing lived a life unimaginably different and distant from yours.

Then why bother reading a book like that? How could it possibly affect or improve your life?

Yet it is this book that Frederick the Great reportedly rode into battle with in his saddlebags, as did four-star General James Mattis, who carried it with him on deployments throughout the Middle East. It is this book that American presidents have read and raved about. It is this book that Robert Louis Stevenson, the great novelist, described as unlike any other. It is this book that Beatrice Webb, who helped to found the London School of Economics and created the concept of collective bargaining, called her “manual of devotion.” That actors and musicians and entrepreneurs are still reading today.

So why has Meditations by Marcus Aurelius endured and influenced across so many centuries? And what makes its ancient wisdom still relevant to the modern problems we face today?

Because in Meditations, Marcus attempts to answer those questions we all ask› ourselves at some point: What is the good life and how do I live it? How do I stop running from pain and misfortune and start dealing with my problems? How do I learn to treat other people better when they can be so petty, miserable, and annoying—and how do I learn to treat myself better, too?

Marcus answers these questions with great clarity and wisdom in Meditations. In fact, he gives us an entire “design for living,” writes Gregory Hays in his translation of the book. Marcus gives us a set of rules and guidelines to live our lives by, practical exercises that made him a better person and can make you one, too.

That's why people have read Meditations for the last two thousand years. That’s why it’s a favorite of presidents and prisoners, men and women, soldiers and activists, entrepreneurs and everyday people.

Just as Heraclitus says you can never step in the same river twice—because the river has changed and you have also changed—Meditations isn’t a book you read just once and understand. Because while it's easy to read, it’s the work of a lifetime to explore its vast depths. That’s what we’ve been working so hard to do here at Daily Stoic over the last decade—trying to make the wisdom of this enduring book more accessible and approachable to everyone.

We’ve spent thousands of hours with Marcus’s writings and the work of experts on Stoic philosophy to understand how we can use this wisdom to improve our lives and the lives of those around us.

That’s exactly why we created How To Read Meditations: A Daily Stoic Digital Guide, built for anyone who wants to go beyond reading Marcus’s words and actually live them. In 11 modules, you’ll go deeper into the text and learn takeaways you can apply to your life right away. It’s the companion we wish we’d had when we first started—part masterclass, part daily practice—designed to turn timeless wisdom into real change. And now, for Meditations Month, happening throughout the month of April to celebrate Marcus Aurelius's birthday (April 26th), we’re inviting you to work through it with us, alongside thousands of others around the world who are committed to living their lives with more intention and purpose.

Here’s the best way to get started: purchase the leatherbound edition of Meditations—a beautiful, heirloom-quality version of the book—and you’ll receive the digital guide, completely free. That includes all 11 modules, AND an invitation to a LIVE Q&A with Ryan Holiday, where he’ll take your questions on all things Meditations, Stoicism, and how to apply these ideas to your life right now, in today’s world.

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  • Best Hard Times
    I recently read “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl” by Timothy Egan. A good read. The book came out in 2006, but I must have missed it while Dawn and I were earlobe deep in what I now recognize as our “best hard time”. That time when we were parents to little kids. That time when the gaps between the ends seemed as if they would never meet. That time when we thought that who we were was who we would always be. That t
     
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1 April 2026 at 12:00

I recently read “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl” by Timothy Egan. A good read. The book came out in 2006, but I must have missed it while Dawn and I were earlobe deep in what I now recognize as our “best hard time”.

That time when we were parents to little kids. That time when the gaps between the ends seemed as if they would never meet. That time when we thought that who we were was who we would always be. That time when we hadn’t yet realized the difference between a job and a vocation. The best hard times.

I’ve heard it said that nostalgia and hope are thieves of the present, but sometimes I find myself wishing I was still a dad to little kids and willingly sacrifice a bit of the present for a bit of the past. I’m well aware that this little wave of nostalgia I allow to roll over me is going to leave me a little bit sad, but I wade in and let it wash over me anyway.

Perhaps if I allow it to dampen my spirits from time to time it won’t build to an unmanageable level and drown me. Perhaps. I was walking through Walmart the other day, picking up the sort of odds and ends one my age picks up at Walmart…stool softener…antacids…plantar fasciitis insoles…seven-day pill organizer…readers…bag of jerky…dental picks, when I unwittingly waded into the toy section and weathered a rogue wave of nostalgia.

The toy section, the space where many moons ago, our children would disappear into while my wife and I shopped for the sort of odds and ends young families require…Pop Tarts…string cheese…Fruity Pebbles…toilet paper…lots and lots of toilet paper. So it goes. The toy section, a place of enduring hope where you see little kids “just wanting to look” but hoping that if they muster up a sufficiently longing and pitiful look at the object of their desire, that the adult holding the purse strings will take note of their sincere need of the latest plastic prized possession, grant their approval, and pony up the cash.

I know this because I felt that look overcome me as a kid in the Ben Franklin Store in Stanley, North Dakota, and from time to time as a husband when I “just want to look” at guitars, bikes, and 1970 Jeep CJ7s. Same look…different toys.

Lillian Sandberg and Gordy McEvers were right. In 2006, Lillian in her 90s and Gordy in in his 80s, were the oldest woman and man in Lignite, so I interviewed them for a book I helped put together for the 2007 Lignite Centennial celebration. When I asked them, “If you could go back in time, what time would you go back to?” They both said that they would go back to when their kids were young and all still living at home.

That time when money was a little short, but needs were mostly met and wants were often left wanting. That time when, as my mom says, “The days are long, but the years are short.”

What time would you go back to?

So, if you ever happen upon me milling about the toy section of Walmart in a misty-eyed stupor of nostalgia…I’ll be fine…nothing a bit of stool softener won’t remedy.

The best hard times. May you have just enough.

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  • Directional Play
    3-Item StatusCurrent Location: Milwaukee, WIReading: Babel by RF KuangListening: Limelight by Tune-YardsIf you have a moment, reply with your own 3-Item Status.NoteI’ll be visiting family in Seattle next week, so I’m skipping next week’s newsletter, and will talk to you again the following week :)New WorkThis week’s Let’s Know Things is about Ukraine and IranThis week’s Brain Lenses essay is about Gender Conformity & the pod is about Mental SubtractionDir
     
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By: Colin Wright
1 April 2026 at 15:02

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Directional Play

Hobbies are great because you don’t have to invest too much of yourself in them, but you absolutely can if you like, and if you do, you tend to get more out of them.

You can pick up a hobby—say coloring in coloring books or creating monsters with Legos or playing disc golf or performing interpretive dance—and you don’t have to convince a single person to give you money in exchange for your brick-hydra or your pubescence-inspired tap-dance. You can just do it, and keep doing it, and no one has to like what you do or how you do it but you.

I like to think of hobbies as directional play, as while hobbies tend to be fun (or otherwise enjoyable), there’s also room for growth and development. You can build really simplistic Lego monsters with a few dozen pieces, or you can engineer staggeringly large and complex grotesques. You can have a blast at either end of that spectrum, but you can also choose to progress from one side to the other, and you can stop anywhere you like along the way (and if you find a spot you especially like, you can stay there forever without negative consequence).

That directionality is nice because growth and accomplishment can feel good and be fulfilling.

But ‘play’ is also important, here, because most of us don’t play enough: we don’t just mess around, try and do things just for their own sake. Not as adults, anyway. And it’s liberating to have something in our lives that we don’t have to be good at, and in which we can just fumble around in whichever manner feels right at any given moment.

Hobbies can also, sometimes, evolve into other things, including professions.

There’s nothing at all wrong with this when it happens, but most of us will be best served by periodically reminding ourselves that not everything needs to be monetized, and not everything needs to be purposeful (in the sense of goosing some kind of growth metric, or helping us develop in a quantifiable way).

It’s okay just to do and try things, and to have hobbies that help us pass the time, give us an excuse to be around others, and that stoke and sate our curiosity.

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I am exhausted.

It’s a lot of work, getting ready for these Seattle trips. But these past few days I’ve also been knocked flat by whatever this cold/flu/covid thing is that’s going around right now. I thought I dodged it, but it finally got me.

So I’ve been aggressively resting in order to get over it (or bare minimum no longer contagious) by the time I leave for Seattle. But man, not fun.

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Good News from the American West: Horses, Gravel, and Good Work

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Good News from the American West: Horses, Gravel, and Good Work A great conversation on leadership, a Wyoming horse retreat, new trails (on bikes and careers), and a return to the Colorado River.

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Happy April 1st!

No corny jokes here, just your weekly dose of Good News from the American West:

⚡ I loved this interview with Kim Jordan, co-founder of New Belgium Brewing and the driving force behind Mighty Arrow Family Foundation. It’s a thoughtful look at leadership, risk-taking, and how to align business success with doing some real good in the world.

⚡ If you’ve ever wanted to better understand horses (or yourself, really), this Wyoming-based retreat from The Reflective Horse looks like a pretty cool experience. Equal parts horsemanship, mindfulness, and wide-open spaces.

⚡ If bikes are more your style, Bicycle Colorado just announced a new gravel race, Shrikes and Bikes, which feels like a strong addition to Colorado’s already stacked calendar of “Type 2 Fun” endurance events.

⚡ Two marketing roles just opened up with my friends at Howler Brothers down in Austin. If you’ve ever wanted to blend creative work with a brand that actually lives the lifestyle it promotes, all while working with great people, check them out.

⚡ And speaking of jobs, High Country News is hiring a Partnerships Editor to help expand collaborations across the West, including their Western Environmental Reporting Collaborative. Big opportunity to shape how important stories get told in this region.

⚡ Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Jim Harrison passed away. Not “good news” by any stretch, but this decade-old piece from Ben Polley is a great reminder of why Harrison’s work and his appetite for life still matter.

⚡ And finally, Pete McBride returns to the podcast for round four, this time diving into his new book Witness to Water. As you’ve come to expect, it’s part Colorado River deep dive, part personal reflection, and an all-around-fun hour of conversation.


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  • This Is The Main Thing
    ​ ​ ​ There’s nothing wrong with success. There’s nothing wrong with power. There’s nothing wrong with living a nice life, with achievement or admiration. Certainly many Stoics did precisely that. Seneca. Cato. Marcus Aurelius. They were important and well-known. They were admired. They were influential. But you know what? They should have shrugged all that off. They appreciate the success, but it wasn’t something they coveted. It may have impre
     
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2 April 2026 at 09:10

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There’s nothing wrong with success. There’s nothing wrong with power. There’s nothing wrong with living a nice life, with achievement or admiration.

Certainly many Stoics did precisely that. Seneca. Cato. Marcus Aurelius. They were important and well-known. They were admired. They were influential. But you know what? They should have shrugged all that off. They appreciate the success, but it wasn’t something they coveted. It may have impressed others, but it wasn’t how they defined themselves.

“The main thing, Binx,” Walter Wade says after receiving the most significant social honor in New Orleans in Walker Percy’s Stoicism-adjacent novel, The Moviegoer, “is to be humble, to make Golden Fleece and be humble about it.” It might have meant a lot to others, he was saying, but it didn’t mean anything to him.

That’s how we might assume Marcus Aurelius felt about a lot of what was thrown at him. In fact, one of the lines in Meditations (get the "How to Read Meditations" digital guide FREE when you purchase a leatherbound copy of Meditations this month only!) suggests as much, where he says he measures himself not by how many honors he’s received, but by how many he’s turned down. He didn’t make “Golden Fleece,” but did remind himself that the purple cloak of the emperor was nothing more than an ordinary one “dyed with shellfish blood.” Clearly, he still tried. Clearly, he was still active in the world. He just measured himself by his humility, by his indifference, more than he did by his achievement or status.

So must we. We can still try to climb the ladder of success. We can be powerful. We can live a nice life. The main thing is though, if you do this, be humble even so—humble even if you have achieved an impressive amount, even if you have done many impressive things.

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  • Layers of Abstraction
    All modern computer code has basically the same purpose: it allows us to write instructions that are intelligible to us humans, but in such a way that our intentions are legible to the machines, which means those intentions can be cleanly translated into binary—the long sequences of 1s and 0s that are these contraptions’ native tongue.Assembly languages are very low-level and close to that binary in the sense that what the human writes doesn’t require too much translation to b
     
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By: Colin Wright
2 April 2026 at 15:03

All modern computer code has basically the same purpose: it allows us to write instructions that are intelligible to us humans, but in such a way that our intentions are legible to the machines, which means those intentions can be cleanly translated into binary—the long sequences of 1s and 0s that are these contraptions’ native tongue.

Assembly languages are very low-level and close to that binary in the sense that what the human writes doesn’t require too much translation to be converted.

Other languages, like Python, C++, or Java are higher-level and thus further from binary, but they’re also easier for humans to read and work with.

In this context, ‘higher-level’ basically means ‘more layers of abstraction.’ You start at the foundation (with binary) then go up a level, to something like assembly. Then you go up and up and up, adding more abstraction, hiding more of the computer-optimized complexity and replacing it with human-optimized intelligibility.

More abstraction generally means more people can create and wield digital tools, because you no longer need a doctorate in order to write “Hello, World!” on a computer.

As you move further up to more abstracted languages, then, you make these tools more accessible to more people, and allow more humans to use digital leverage in more intuitive ways.

As a trade-off, though, you lose some of the technical details and peculiarities that folks working in assembly or binary might notice and be capable of fiddling with at an extremely granular level. Your options become in some ways more limited and finite, even as your other capabilities grow.

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  • Do This to Capture the Magic for Yourself
    ​ ​ ​ It should be the easiest book in the world to read. It’s only a couple hundred pages and made up of short passages, making it easy to read in small increments. It’s written in a straightforward and accessible style without any complex philosophical jargon. And unlike most books, there’s no pretense, no performance, no intent to impress an audience. It’s filled with topics that are universal and relevant—dealing with tough times, bein
     
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3 April 2026 at 09:09

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It should be the easiest book in the world to read.

It’s only a couple hundred pages and made up of short passages, making it easy to read in small increments. It’s written in a straightforward and accessible style without any complex philosophical jargon. And unlike most books, there’s no pretense, no performance, no intent to impress an audience.

It’s filled with topics that are universal and relevant—dealing with tough times, being nice to people, and waking up and getting to work even when you’d rather stay under the warm blankets.

And yet…

So many people struggle with and get frustrated by Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations…and they have ever since it was first discovered after the emperor’s death nearly twenty centuries ago. Just as we can imagine the first reader of Meditations trying to make sense of the private thoughts of this great man, people today have questions about where to start and what to take from it.

Which translation should I get? Should it be read cover-to-cover or is it better to approach it in bite-sized pieces? Do you read it once or multiple times? Did Marcus mean to come off so dark and dour? Why was Marcus writing? Is it important to know about Marcus’ circumstances and who he was writing for? Do you need to understand Stoicism to fully appreciate Meditations? What will I even get out of it?

And that’s exactly why we created How To Read Meditations: A Daily Stoic Digital Guide, built for anyone who wants to not only read and deeply reflect on Marcus’s words, but to actually live them. In 11 modules, you’ll go deeper into the text and gain tools you can apply to your life right away. It’s the companion we wish we’d had when we first started—part masterclass, part daily practice—designed to turn timeless wisdom into real change.

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Now, for Meditations Month, we’re inviting you to work through it with us, alongside thousands of others around the world who are committed to living their lives with more intention and purpose.

The best way to get started? Purchase the leatherbound edition of Meditations and you’ll receive the How To Read Meditations: A Daily Stoic Digital Guide free, including all 11 modules, access to the private platform, and an invitation to a LIVE Q&A with Ryan Holiday.

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  • Your Week with Daily Stoic
    April is Meditations Month at Daily Stoic: Get our How To Read Meditations Digital Guide FREE when you buy the leatherbound edition of Meditations. Our How To Read Meditations Digital Guide also unlocks access to our private community discussion and an invitation to a LIVE Q&A call with Ryan Holiday. Learn More About Meditations Month PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: They appreciate the success, but it wasn’t something they coveted. It may have impressed others, but it wasn’t how t
     
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4 April 2026 at 10:08

April is Meditations Month at Daily Stoic: Get our How To Read Meditations Digital Guide FREE when you buy the leatherbound edition of Meditations.

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They appreciate the success, but it wasn’t something they coveted. It may have impressed others, but it wasn’t how they defined themselves.
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4 April 2026 at 11:03
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PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:

They are dealing with new feelings, new issues, new powers, near unknowns. They can’t articulate yet what this means or where it comes from because they are still learning.

Read: They Don’t Know What’s Wrong​

YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:

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This week on the Daily Dad YouTube channel, Ryan shares practical, straightforward tips to help you become a better parent.

There’s a reason you’re behaving this way. There’s a reason you’re not patient with them, that you’re having trouble handling the way they’re being.
Watch the full video here:
7 Parenting Rules That Actually Work

PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:

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How do we get our kids to remember what we tell them? Find out on this episode of the Daily Dad Podcast.

These are kids that can barely remember where their backpack is…how are we supposed to communicate the most essential and important truths of life?
Listen to the full episode:
​This Is How They’ll Remember

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WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

— The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius

​SOCIAL MEDIA POST OF THE WEEK:

We don’t control what happens. We control what we see.
And if we live it long enough? Maybe they will, too.

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