This episode reflects on the shortness of life without turning it into panic.


Oliver Burkeman’s “four thousand weeks” gives us a blunt measure of our limits, while Seneca’s story of Julius Canus shows how calm can survive even under the shadow of death.


The Stoic point isn't to master time or escape mortality, but to stop wasting what remains on denial, anxiety, or impossible self-optimization.


Since we can't know how many weeks are left, the task is to inhabit the present with attention, courage, and dignity.


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