April 30, 2024: Stoic Beliefs, ChooseFI T-shirts, What Money Buys, plus Community Wins
Core Stoic Beliefs I picked up Ryan Holiday’s book ‘The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living’ and I’m going through it one page per day as per the construct of the book. It reminded me of a prior segment I wrote in the newsletter 3 years ago, which is worth highlighting again: “One of our finalists for a new project management software for ChooseFI is Basecamp, which prompted me to go back and listen to Episode 195 of The Tim Ferriss Show with Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson. Among the many gems was their discussion of stoic philosophy and David’s article “It’s Always Your Fault.” This isn’t about beating yourself up needlessly, but instead turning the power around from the elusive “they” impacting you, to YOU being the source of power. Tim remembered a powerful question a former coach asked him that I think is important for each of us to ask ourselves: “How are you complicit in creating the conditions you say you don’t want?” To round this out, here’s a 2-minute video from Jocko Willink entitled “Good.” I hit this up for a little extra dose of motivation every now and again; it’s pretty