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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

Remember that people avoid the truth. Time and time again, we hear the Stoics tell us to say what is right, to do what is right, to be comfortable swimming upstream or rejecting the choices of the mob.

Marcus Aurelius said this, Seneca said it, Kato said it, Nassim Talib says it still today.

What usually goes unsaid alongside these inspiring calls, whether it's if you see fraud, say fraud, or if it's not right, do not do it, it's not true, do not say it, is anything about the consequences.

Because while history admires whistleblowers and men and women of principles, their contemporaries often have the opposite reaction.

Because speaking the truth and standing up for what's right is an implicit rebuke of the status quo, challenges people's identities, it indites them for not doing the same.

This is important to know and constantly remind oneself of, it's almost like you need to do a pre-meditashio malorum for what happens when you commit to being a good and honest and courageous person.

Because it's not easy, people are not going to throw you a parade, they're much more likely to throw brick bats or insults.

But you have to do what you think is right, and as Marcus Aurelius said, treat the rest like it doesn't matter.

Who cares if they unsubscribe from your emails, who cares if they report you, or try to take away your sponsors, or try to run against you in a primary election, or leave nasty comments, or try to bully you?

The truth is that none of these things matter, or at least they don't matter more than your duty.

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From Wondery comes a new series, flipping the bird, Elon vs. Twitter, a story about what happens when the richest man on the planet decides to acquire a powerful social media company in the name of free speech. But does he have what it takes?

It started off promising.

Or is this all just about Elon?

He's essentially mad that his tweets aren't performing as well as he would expect them to.

But really just felt like, okay, this really is just a platform being ruled by a dictator who does things on his own limbs.

And what will be left of Twitter by the time he's done?

Basically, my entire team was gone. By the end of it, infrastructure was just completely gutted. He'll like tweet a thing, and then everyone's like, we gotta work on that now, because he tweeted it.

I'm supposed to believe this man is a genius.

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