27 Things I’ve Learned From 150 Million Podcast Downloads
10 min readNov 2, 2023
In his letters — the pre-digital medium for distant long-form conversation — Seneca instructs his friend Lucilius to find one thing each day that will fortify him against death, despair, fear, or adversity. Just one thing. One nugget. And that’s what most of Seneca’s letters to his friend are about. They have a quote in them. Or a little prescription. Or a story. But in each case, Seneca…