I’ve spent a lot of time reading about equanimity, patience, and staying rational under pressure. Most of it turned out to matter less than what I ate that day, how well I’d slept, and whether I’d moved my body. The pattern is embarrassingly simple once I stopped…

Freedom, in most of the wellness world, means fewer obligations. Cancel the plan, quit the job, clear the calendar, keep your options open. It’s freedom as subtraction — freedom from. Stoicism has a different definition, and it’s a less comfortable one: you’re only…

A sleep tracker won’t fix your sleep. It isn’t built to. What it’s built to do is show you the parts of the night you have no access to any other way — and once that’s clear, most of the argument about whether these devices are worth wearing collapses. People tend to…