The Stoic Skill AI Can’t Replace
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The more powerful our tools become, the more important our judgment becomes. In today’s episode, Ryan talks with Jeremy Utley and Henrik Werdelin, hosts of Beyond the Prompt, about what the Stoics can teach us about AI, modern technology, and the skills we can’t afford to outsource.
Beyond the Prompt is hosted by Henrik Werdelin, an entrepreneur known for co-founding BarkBox, prehype, and other startups, and Jeremy Utley, a lecturer at Stanford and author of Ideaflow.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, |
| 0:07.8 | courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. |
| 0:14.6 | If you dropped one of the Stoics, you know, Marx Rialis or Seneca or Epictetus or Cato into the modern world, they'd be shocked by a lot, right? |
| 0:23.5 | Culturally, they'd be shocked by the technology, cars and planes, the phones in our pockets are instantaneous communication, how fast we can travel, the endless stream of news and noise. |
| 0:35.2 | I mean, I don't think they'd be shocked by the fact that society had changed and |
| 0:38.7 | evolved. Like, they understood a lot about change. It's one of the fascinating themes in meditations |
| 0:43.5 | how often he returns to the idea of change, how inescapable something like change is. I guess I'm |
| 0:53.1 | curious what they would think of artificial intelligence, right? What would |
| 0:56.0 | they think of AI? Marks Reelis would be shocked to watch videos of himself generated by AI where he has a |
| 1:04.2 | 12-pack. He's just absolutely shredded. I don't know. It's an interesting question, right? What would |
| 1:09.7 | they think of this |
| 1:10.9 | to a, obviously I tell a story and wisdom that is sort of a fable about AI, the idea that |
| 1:17.4 | technology can do your thinking for you, that there's some way to get wisdom other than a lot |
| 1:21.9 | of work. I think they would obviously dispute that. But this idea of wrestling with technological disruption, |
| 1:29.7 | wrestling with change, wrestling with the idea of magical solutions, you know, world-changing |
| 1:36.2 | innovations, what would the Stoics think about that? It's obviously something I think about. |
| 1:40.7 | I think about it as a parent of young kids. I think about it as a person who runs a business. I think about it as a writer. I think about it as a parent of young kids. I think about it as a person who runs a |
| 1:45.0 | business. I think about it as a writer. I think about it as a person who has a question and wants an |
| 1:49.6 | answer to that question and, you know, I type it in and then I got to think about whether I can |
| 1:53.8 | trust that answer. Anyways, I got asked to do this podcast a couple of weeks ago. It's called |
| 2:00.1 | Beyond the Prompt. It's hosted by |
| 2:02.3 | Henrik Werdlin and was an entrepreneur and started a bunch of cool companies. And then Jeremy |
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