The technology is new; the troubles underneath it are not. Each page takes one everyday problem and sets out what the great traditions actually said about it — with sources — plus one practice you can try today.
Seneca, Epictetus and the Buddha’s “second arrow” on the mind that won’t stop.
Seneca, Pascal, William James and Simone Weil on a scattered mind.
Seneca’s delay, the Dhammapada, the Gita and Aristotle’s “right anger”.
Impermanence, Epictetus’s “given back”, Rumi and Nietzsche’s amor fati.
Epictetus’s lettuce, Bertrand Russell and the Buddhist practice of mudita.
Seneca, Epicurus, Diogenes’ cup, Laozi and Chanakya on wealth.
Aristotle and Epicurus on friendship, and Tillich on loneliness versus solitude.
Can machines think? Old questions about mind and consciousness in new clothing.
Understanding the mind, and where ancient practices like mindfulness fit in.
Burnout, the 9-to-5 and what philosophers said about leisure.
Fairness, rights and Rawls’s veil of ignorance.
