Ryan Holiday

It not only takes a lot of work, it's heavy.

Knowing what people have done to each other, knowing what they do to each other, making sense of the contradictions, the failures, the stupidity, does not exactly fill one with hope for humanity.

And perhaps this explains some of the weariness in Marcus Aurelius' meditations.

Marcus was not just a student of history, but an aspiring historian, even working on, at one point, a little book called Deeds of the Ancient Greeks and Romans.

And ignorance, however soothing, is unfortunately a vice.

It is a violation of our responsibility to seek wisdom.

It will strip you of some of your illusions.

I don't know if you've ever done any live shopping, but it's blowing up.

And some of the kids, I don't know if I call them kids, but some of the Gen Z kids on my staff had to tell me about it.

They really love it because you can find vintage stuff and collectible stuff.

I was looking at some videos of people selling vintage band tees and records and watches and

And it's real people selling.

Like if you're going to an estate sale or a really cool, trendy shop, not, you know, overpriced stuff, not produced stuff.

There's no ads, no marketing.

And people are on there explaining their stuff, why you'd like it, what's cool about it, where they got it.

Like I love buying stuff on auctions.

So I think I'm gonna like Whatnot.

And I think you will too.

There are people making over a million dollars a year on Whatnot.

In fact, that number has doubled in the last year.