Welcome

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Welcome

My name is Sam Alaimo. I’m a former US Navy SEAL and entrepreneur with a Masters from Columbia University.

The essays I post here are an attempt to understand the human condition and our role in the cosmos through the lens of our pre-state ancestors, our warriors, and our philosophers. I do not write about philosophy as an idea or as an abstract academic study – I apply it as a practice and to every subject possible.

The mission is to gain perspective and wisdom in order to improve in the act of living.

This is a highly enjoyable and brutal process. The more flawed we are — and as ancient humans living in a modern world we are not built for, we are heavily flawed — the more profound the benefit.

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What then?

I call this platform “what then?”, because the ancient Stoic Epictetus asked “τί οὖν” again and again, which translates to “so wh…