https://www.huffmanwrites.org/tags/stoicism/Recent content in Stoicism on Huffman WritesHugoenFri, 24 Jul 2026 16:26:34 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/stoic-saturday-making-crimea-an-island/Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/stoic-saturday-making-crimea-an-island/How Ukraine's Interdiction Campaign is Reshaping the War.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/montessori-stoicism-synthesis/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/montessori-stoicism-synthesis/An exploration of the conceptual convergence between Maria Montessori's pedagogical framework and Stoic philosophy, specifically regarding agency, self-mastery, and the cultivation of the will.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/on-proportion-summary/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/on-proportion-summary/Executive summary of On Proportion: the lost discipline of matching response to scale.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/fountain-pens/Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/fountain-pens/A comparative history of the two great fountain pen traditions — German engineering discipline and Japanese artistic precision — and what they reveal about craft, culture, and the examined life.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/misaligned/Sun, 31 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/misaligned/A comprehensive look at Misaligned — the most personal book Philip Huffman has written, and the one closest to an autobiography. A late ADHD diagnosis, a first marriage, a career built on containment, and the hard work of building something different.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/a-life-made-whole/Sun, 31 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/a-life-made-whole/A comprehensive look at the second Huffman book — its origins in accumulated experience, its Stoic framework, and why it exists for the reader who suspects they are not as whole as they appear.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/ego-is-the-enemy-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/ego-is-the-enemy-summary/A summary and review of Ryan Holiday's argument that ego — not circumstance, not competition, not bad luck — is the primary obstacle to a meaningful life and lasting work.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/mans-search-for-meaning-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/mans-search-for-meaning-summary/Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning — a summary and critical review of his account of survival in the Nazi concentration camps, the logotherapy he built from it, and what it shares with Stoic philosophy.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/meditations-summary/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/meditations-summary/Marcus Aurelius's Meditations — a summary and critical review of his private Stoic journal, the core philosophical arguments it makes, and what it means to aspire to virtue while consistently falling short.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-stoic-saturday-2026-05-23/Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-stoic-saturday-2026-05-23/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections for Memorial Day weekend.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/the-roots-of-violence/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/the-roots-of-violence/Violence doesn't begin with the act. It begins long before, in roots most of us refuse to examine.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/what-926-gigabytes-taught-me-about-proportion/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/what-926-gigabytes-taught-me-about-proportion/On the temptation to reach for the sledgehammer, and the discipline required to use the scalpel instead.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-april-18-2026/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-april-18-2026/Weekly digest: a collection of observations, recommendations, and personal reflections.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/on-ai-as-a-writing-assistant/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/essays/on-ai-as-a-writing-assistant/How I came to use artificial intelligence as a partner in the writing process.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/stoic-backgammon-summary/Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/stoic-backgammon-summary/Executive summary of Stoic Backgammon: every roll is a small encounter with fate, every move is a decision made with incomplete information.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/letters-summary/Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/letters-summary/Executive summary of Letters: truth without outcome, speech without guarantee.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/misaligned-summary/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/misaligned-summary/Executive summary of Misaligned: when the map is wrong, discipline becomes damage.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/the-stoic-cgm-summary/Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/the-stoic-cgm-summary/Executive summary of The Stoic CGM: using data to govern the body without surrendering to it.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-november-14-2025/Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-november-14-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from November 14, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/small-planet-big-responsibility/Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/small-planet-big-responsibility/The responsibility of stewardship in an age of environmental crisis.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/a-life-made-whole-summary/Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/a-life-made-whole-summary/Executive summary of A Life Made Whole: essays on holding yourself together when experience threatens to fragment.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-october-3-2025/Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/digests/digest-for-october-3-2025/Weekly digest: observations, recommendations, and reflections from October 3, 2025.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-stoic-investor-holding-steady-when-the-market-panics/Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-stoic-investor-holding-steady-when-the-market-panics/Holding steady when the market panics: a Stoic approach to investing.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/the-stoic-citizen-summary/Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/summaries/the-stoic-citizen-summary/Executive summary of The Stoic Citizen: virtue as a public discipline, not a private consolation.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-virtue-of-temperance-holding-the-line-when-everything-pulls-you-off-it/Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/stoicism/the-virtue-of-temperance-holding-the-line-when-everything-pulls-you-off-it/Holding the line when everything pulls you off it: the virtue of temperance.https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/when-justice-bends-power-privilege-and-the-price-of-fairness/Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.huffmanwrites.org/posts/civics/when-justice-bends-power-privilege-and-the-price-of-fairness/When justice bends under power and privilege, society pays the hidden price.