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🏆 Award winning Showrunner at 🍻 Tech After Five, ☕️ Networking Over Coffee, 🎧🎙 podcaster, presenter, facilitator, 🙋🏻‍♂️ avuncular host. 🦉 Philosophically Stoic. 📺 Host at Conversations with Modern Stoicism. 👉 https://bit.ly/m/AboutPhil
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🎉Calling all tech enthusiasts! Dig South 2025 is here with an extraordinary lineup: pitch competitions, AI discussions, and unique meetups all while soaking up the vibrant Charleston vibe! This is THE place to be for inspiration and networking. 🌐✨ #CharlestonTechWeek youtu.be/tXDSVnEaIWc

Join us for Conversations with Modern Stoicism on Saturday! lu.ma/eawlcu0f

Are you looking to expand your local Stoicism practice group? Maybe you're thinking about starting a community and want to learn the best strategies for building a thriving group? Having run over 700 live, in person meetups, I've got some ideas. #Stoicism w/ @stoicfellowship.com bit.ly/3Gh99Cl

This weekend we meet.

Level up your professional networking, your career, your clients on Tuesday.

​Like all Conversations with Modern Stoicism events, this session includes both teaching and interactive small-group discussions, giving you a chance to immediately apply the technique to your own recent experiences. Join us: bit.ly/3XWKqc7

Wouldn't knowing others better help you get your next client, gig, job, or even hire? Join us to learn how to open yourself and others up to stronger connections. It's not a webinar. You learn a skill and then practice it with real world others. lu.ma/ptak6aew

My Discover Weekly Playlist on Spotify includes Torna a Surriento by Mario Lanza. What did I do to deserve that?

This week is Tech After Five #699. You know what that means? Join us for a preview of 700! www.eventbrite.com/e/1254866101...

A wonderful explainer on why nobody is doing anything that would actually work to fix our economy. freakonomics.com/podcast/ten-...

“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work, and helps make something of the world.” - Heraclitus

A friend of mine suggests that we are now deeply engaged in the “and find out” phase.

I hope that when I eventually develop dementia, nobody elects me to public office.

We meet Saturday... lu.ma/aupcds8h

I couldn’t watch.

What does Stoicism have to teach us about making good decision making? We will discuss with John Sellars in March! 🎟️: lu.ma/aupcds8h

Find your next gig, business partner, client, job at Networking Over Coffee. Online events for tech entrepreneurs and professionals. lu.ma/NetworkingOv...

YouTube dropped a bombshell today: TV screens have officially dethroned mobile phones as the platform of choice for viewers. Which makes me wonder: Hey YouTube, why are you still forcing those awkward vertical videos into my TV feed?

I want to know less about the dead owl. Really, I don’t give a hoot.

Anybody got extra tickets to tonight’s Kennedy Center Wrestlemania?

Don't Look Up was a documentary? www.wired.com/story/astero...

Anyone need a new everyday Zoom background?

Donald Robertson shares five key insights from his new book, How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World. www.fastcompany.com/91264595/soc...

Ready to take your business to the next level? Networking Over Coffee connects you with real professionals, delivers valuable advice, and helps you find clients, gigs, or make key hires. Join us on screen and make it happen. 👉 bit.ly/m/AboutPhil

In a functioning democracy, a president who -tries to seize Congress's constitutional spending powers -attempts to rewrite the Constitution unilaterally -pardons violent insurrectionists who attacked the government -fires the Inspectors General and DOJ prosecutors would face immediate impeachment

'Whoever has no notebook in their sleeve will not establish wisdom in their heart.' - Arabic proverb

What is Beyond Stoicism about? Join us for a presentation and conversation with authors Massimo Pigliucci, and Greg Lopez. 🎟️: bit.ly/m/Conversati... via @modernstoicism.bsky.social w/ @greglopez.me

"The popularity of books on Stoicism reflects a widespread search for values in a world where we often feel powerless. However, its philosophical ideas have also been simplified and repurposed into self-help content, marketed by influencers and entrepreneurs..." english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

Aristotle, one of the most influential philosophers of all time, developed a comprehensive system of virtue ethics that we can learn from even today. bigthink.com/personal-gro... #philosophy #aristotle

The horn button on the clown car is working.

Next Conversations Event is with Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez. (and their new work Beyond Stoicism with Meredith Alexander Kunz) @greglopez.me bit.ly/m/Conversati...

The rot of intellectual arrogance extends far beyond Harvard's ivory towers. From Twitter threads to TED talks, from boardrooms to political chambers, we've lost the ability to say those three powerful words: "I don't know." www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...

Dry January Is Driving Me to Drink writes one columnist. I share her suspicion that forces are mysteriously at work, but what exactly are they? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/o...

I stopped by WYFF TV to talk about TikTok. Maybe you'll see it on the news tonight?

Requiescat in pace, David Lynch.

Tonight... we meet in Greenville. Have you checked out our swanky new location? We've got great people in a great venue. Tonight. www.eventbrite.com/e/1122994700...

What works here? Should I care?

We meet in Charlotte this week. It's business building, career advancing, professional networking for IT professionals. Grab your spot. www.eventbrite.com/e/1113919295...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest... A Full Moon, a Bold Mars and a New Comet Brighten January’s Skies www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/s...

“Unfortunately, this is the culture we live in. In the post-Christian society, fewer people are going to church, and even the church people are going less often.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/b...

Where's the Leadership? Scott Galloway is asking good questions.