Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. You know, it's hard to put stuff out in the world, right?

You work really hard on something, then you put it out there, and then other people get a say,

right? They decide whether they're going to laugh at the joke or not. They decide whether

they're going to buy the thing you're selling or not. They decide whether to vote for you.

And that's really hard, right?

In a way, it challenges one of the most important principles and stoicism, which is to not care about

things that are not in your control. And that is outside your control. And yet, you can't do your job

well or be compensated for that job if you can't figure out a way to both care and not care. I don't

know. It's a challenge. So when I had Bert Kreisner on the podcast, this is one of the things we

talked about because his new show, Freebert, had just come out. Like I heard him walking. I was

sitting in the back of the studio working on something. I heard him come in and he was just hearing

from like people on his

team about where it had landed, like how it was doing on Netflix, because Netflix in real

time is showing like what the most popular stuff is, right? In some ways, Netflix is a black box.

They don't tell you exactly how many downloads or how something's doing. Like with Amazon,

you know, there's a ranking and you obviously want to do well on that ranking. It's really challenging, right? It makes you

vulnerable. Even if you think what you did is awesome, well, now there's a big thumbs up or a big

thumbs down telling you whether that's true or not. So that was something we talked about on the

episode. This is part two. And he had just found out that he had

debuted at number two, which was well deserved, because it's a great show. Samantha and I

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