“Amor Fati” — Latin for “love of fate” — is the idea of accepting life as it is and trying to find something useful in whatever happens. A Brief History Stoicism began around the early 3rd century BCE with Zeno of Citium. Diogenes Laertius described him as “lean, longish, and swarthy; hence someone called an Egyptian vine.” Strange detail to survive for over two thousand years, but it did. “Man conquers the world by conquering himself.” — Zeno of Citium ...
This site exists because I’m stubborn. For years, I wrote on platforms that were convenient, polished, and easy to use. They also never quite felt like mine. That’s not really a criticism. Those platforms solve real problems. They handle the design, the publishing, the infrastructure, all the technical stuff most people don’t want to think about. But that’s also the tradeoff. The layout is already decided. The features are already chosen. You can decorate the room, but you don’t own the building. ...