Meditations - A New Translation by Marcus Aurelius

@_jacksmith Really? Which translation did you read (I tend to find that's the problem for most people). It is at its simplest level, just a collection of thoughts and reminders from a smart person. Did we meet when I was at Vungle last month?

@ryanholiday I rented these translations from the library: http://amazon.com/Emperors-Handb... http://amazon.com/Meditations-Pe... as you say; it's essentially just a lot of random thoughts/ideas and in just reading the book I found it hard to come across good takeaways. Perhaps the best value is from someone curating the key takeaways, rather than trying to present them in their original form? I wasn't at the Vungle office when you came by; I left ~2 years ago to work on some other startups. However one of my friends at Vungle sent me the video of your talk, which I watched (thanks a lot for taking time out to do that!).

@_jacksmith I knew it! Those are the worst translations. Get the Hays one linked above. First off, the intro helps with the context. More importantly the writing is much clearer

@ryanholiday awesome. I will do! thanks a lot!