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Hold Every Hour

You are not going to die one day. You have been dying the whole time, and most of it is already behind you.

Commentatio · 2026-09-06 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Nature Did Not Get Careless About the Last Act

You two seem surprised that I carry my years lightly. So let me take the four charges people bring against old age, and show you that not one of them holds.

Commentatio · 2026-08-29 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Nothing Is Ours Except Time

You have all the letters now, Lucilius, and you want to know what they come to. Here is the whole of it, before we take it apart.

Commentatio · 2026-08-25 · David H. Friedel Jr.

You Are Not in a Storm. You Are Seasick.

You asked me to name your disease. I can. And I should tell you at the start that the cure is not stillness.

Commentatio · 2026-08-24 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Ask Nothing of a Friend That Would Make Him Worse

My friend Scipio died last week. Everyone wants to know how I am bearing it. I would rather tell you what he taught me about friendship.

Commentatio · 2026-08-24 · David H. Friedel Jr.
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When the Builders Don't Die For five thousand years, every dynasty ended at the same biological constraint. That constraint is about to lift. David H. Friedel Jr. MarketAlly

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