Journal
On remembering
that you will die.
Short essays on the Stoic practice of memento mori — counting the weeks, writing reminders that land, and keeping the end in view without letting it darken the days.
Philosophy · 4 min read
Why Memento Mori Still Matters
Two thousand years ago a slave-turned-philosopher wrote that you could take away his possessions, his body, even his life — but never his mind. This is the root of memento mori.
12 August 2026
Counting the Weeks, Not the Days
6 min readDays are too small a unit to feel the weight of a life. Years are too large. The week — four thousand of them for a full life — is the scale that makes time visible.
Practice · 5 August 2026
The Art of the Daily Reminder
5 min readA single line, arriving once a day, can reframe an entire week. How to write reminders that pull you back to what matters instead of just nagging.
Practice · 28 July 2026
Epictetus on What You Can and Cannot Control
7 min readSome things are up to us — our judgments, our effort, our desires. Everything else is not. The Stoic dichotomy of control, in plain language.
Philosophy · 20 July 2026
Printing Your Grid: A Wall That Reminds You
3 min readA printed life-in-weeks grid, hung where you pass it every morning, does what no app notification can: it makes the count unavoidable.
Guides · 14 July 2026
Marcus Aurelius and the Shortness of Time
8 min read"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think." The emperor-philosopher on living as if each day were the last.
Philosophy · 8 July 2026