Stoic reflections for engineering leaders
EM Meditations
Stoic meditations and reflections for Engineering Managers navigating leadership, technology, and human dynamics.
📚 Not lessons — meditations. 🛠️ Not a manual, but a mirror.
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Browse by theme →Fighting Entropy Without Losing Your Composure
““You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.””
Observation vs. Perception in Feedback
“What disturbs people’s minds is not events but their judgments on events.”
The Little Knowledge
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Doing the Right Thing
“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”
Managing the Mess
“Be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands, unmoved, and the raging of the sea falls still around it.”
The Beauty of Choices
“If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be”
The Disillusion of Comfort
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Translating a Decision I Don't Agree With
“Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.”
The Freedom of No Opinion
“We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind - for things have no natural power…”