Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic.

Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics,

something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice,

temperance, and wisdom.

And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics.

We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the

challenging issues of our time. Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more

space when things have slowed down,

be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk,

to sit with your journal,

and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

Hey, it's Ryan.

Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. I told you I've had some weird experiences with

Cal Newport. I was in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and this Sheik was telling me how much

he loved Cal's work. I was visiting a senator who'd read some of my

books and he showed me his little deep workroom. My sister heard cow was here, gets

off the phone and goes, oh my God, you know, you changed all these meetings we do.

And actually, Cal gave her a really good piece of advice that I thought I would share.

He said, you know, in hybrid working environments and maybe you have a hybrid company I

I outlet most of the daily store employees we do a certain number of days in the office a

certain number of home he was like no Zoom meetings when working remote.

So his point was when you're working remote,

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