Writing

Selected work

A book on Greek and Roman philosophy and how it can help us today, published in the US, the UK, and Spain, with a Chinese edition on the way. Plus translating frontier AI research for general readers, and writing on Stoicism for everyday life.

Published

Books & articles

Adobe Research posts are written with the research teams and published without individual bylines.

One book · US and UK editions

Beyond Stoicism A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers
The Experiment · 2025 · US edition, with Massimo Pigliucci & Gregory Lopez
Also published in Spanish, with a Chinese edition on the way.
Live Like a Philosopher What the Ancient Greeks and Romans Can Teach Us About Living a Happy Life
Headline Press · 2025 · UK edition of Beyond Stoicism

AI & computer science

CVPR 2026: Adobe Researchers Present 75+ Papers on the Frontier of AI Adobe Research · 2026 · Conference package, with video
Teaching an AI Agent to Retouch Photos: RetouchIQ at CVPR 2026 Adobe Research · 2026 · Agentic AI, CVPR
MotionStream Demonstrates Real-Time Control in AI Video Creation Adobe Research · 2026 · Generative video
TeamFusion: Using AI Agents to Represent Every Voice in Team Decisions Adobe Research · 2026 · Multi-agent systems, ACL
When the Music Fits: VidTune Helps Video Creators Find the Right Soundtrack Adobe Research · 2026 · Generative audio, CHI

Philosophy & the good life

Navigate to the “Three Ports” of Ancient Philosophy to Find the Good Life Big Think · 2025 · with Gregory Lopez
Life is a festival — if you know how to look The Stoic Magazine · 2022
If you can’t become a Stoic sage, why should you even try? The Stoic Magazine · 2023
Stoic Parenting in the Age of Distraction Modern Stoicism

The Stoic Mom

Because we could all use a little wisdom.

I started The Stoic Mom in October 2016, when my daughters were ten and eight and I was losing to Silicon Valley's parenting culture — the extracurriculars, the comparison, the conviction that any misstep of mine would cost my kids their futures.

I've been writing about it ever since — first at thestoicmom.com, and on Substack since 2022, where I've published more than fifty posts.

Much of that writing pushes back on what's been made of this philosophy online: the “broicism” of cold self-reliance and extreme self-sufficiency, and the $toicism that sells ancient virtue as a productivity hack. Neither is true to the philosophy. Both are worth arguing with.

Read The Stoic Mom