stoic
hedonist

48.13° N · 11.58° E · 520 m
— The standing order
  1. I Choose few. Choose well.
  2. II Build in silence. Let the work speak.
  3. III Master the dull thing first.
  4. IV Treat the body as the first instrument.
  5. V Move between cities. Belong to the work, not the place.
  6. VI Spend on what lasts. Refuse what merely shines.
  7. VII Hold your counsel. Festina lente.
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Discipline is the
highest form of
self-respect.
— The three pillars

Time-tested principles
made personal.

— Selected readings

The shelf, in part —
quiet companions.

These four are the antecedents of Pillar I — the examined life, in longer form.

— The colophon

The keeper of
the record.

COLOPHON · ED. MMXXVI

I built this to keep an honest record — not for an audience, but for the practice of knowing what I hold to. The principles here are lived ones. The editions are updated when something earns it.

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