Tannen, it's got the code it's going to launch.

It's a Unix system.

I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park.

It tells her everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

More than 1,800 years ago, Marcus Aurelius wrote,

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself,

The people I deal with today will be meddling,

ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.

If you've ever thought the same before logging into social media,

you aren't alone. In addition to being Emperor of Rome, Aurelius is one of the founders of Stoicism,

an ancient philosophy that's recently become widely popular among the Silicon Valley elite.

The ancients talk a lot about this idea of the good life, but they never really define it. So what is it?

What do ancient Roman philosophers have to do with billionaire tech bros like Jack Dorsey?

A lot, it turns out. Vice Senior staff writer Shayla Love wrote the ultimate stoicism explainer,

and she's here with us today to talk about what it means that the world's rich and powerful are turning to ancient texts for life advice. I'm Matthew Galt and for

Ben Maku, and this is Cyber. Shaila Love, thank you so much for coming on to Cyber.

Thank you for having me. All right, so let's get some super basic stuff out of the way.

What is ancient Stoicism? So Stoicism is a philosophy that was popular both in Greece and Rome.

Most of the texts that we, that the modern Stoics, which is what people who practice Stoicism today are called,

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