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Meditations, Operator Edition

Two thousand years ago the most powerful man alive wrote notes to himself at night about how to run a day without being run by it. He never meant anyone to read them. Here are forty of the strongest, rewritten in plain operator language. Read one a day. Then read them again.

Source: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, working from the public-domain 1862 George Long translation, compressed and restated in modern operator language by The Protocol Collective. The restatements are ours; the thinking is his. Not affiliated with any estate — there hasn’t been one for eighteen centuries.

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