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This site is part of a 25‑year real‑time learning project. In practice, we want to show how applied Stoicism, time and compounding can take you from poverty into the middle class, or from a mid‑sized business into a large one. This is the path we’re walking ourselves, and we’re documenting it openly so that anyone who shares this mindset can learn alongside us.

Epictetus Fund is not “philosophy on the side” and “business on the side”. It is the journal of a player‑philosopher who puts his own time and capital at risk and shows his decisions, mistakes and lessons in real life.

We publish the fund’s TWR almost in real time and we do not hide drawdowns behind pretty averages. By its very meaning, TWR is all about whether the fund manager made new money or lost old cash over the reporting period — basically, a proper gut-check on how well the fund manager did their job. Once a quarter, we write letters to partners in the spirit of Buffett — in plain English, with no corporate fog: what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned.

Stoicism was not invented to “generate alpha”. But one of our goals is to show, in practice, how easily it can do exactly that when you treat it as a practical tool — in our case, inside a real financial business.

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