Meredith Alexander Kunz

Writing

Selected work

Two books on ancient philosophy — plus translating frontier AI research for general readers, and writing on applying ancient philosophy to modern life.

Published

Books & articles

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

Books

  • Beyond Stoicism A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers
    The Experiment · 2025 · with Massimo Pigliucci & Gregory Lopez
  • Live Like a Philosopher What the Ancient Greeks and Romans Can Teach Us About Living a Happy Life
    Headline Press · 2025 · UK edition

AI & computer science

Philosophy & the good life

Blog

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.