# Ryan Holiday

- Id: `holiday`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/holiday/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `a6fa63f8a73a8dc66d4748eacd37e5814d43ed8b5d1ff657ca1fc1fdd44fad29`

## Summary

A contemporary popular writer, Ryan Holiday recasts Stoic practices for work, adversity, and everyday discipline.

## Overview

Dated knowledge snapshot for a living author, frozen on 14 September 2026.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "living",
    "era": "Contemporary era",
    "distance": "today",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "stoicism",
    "name": "Stoicism",
    "detail": "Contemporary Stoicism",
    "labels": [
        "Stoicism",
        "Contemporary Stoicism"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 2026,
    "display": "2026 CE",
    "reason": "Dated knowledge snapshot for a living author, frozen on 14 September 2026."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 907,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

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    {
        "name": "Sacramento",
        "period": "1987",
        "description": "Publicly documented birthplace.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://ryanholiday.net/about/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Los Angeles",
        "period": "early career",
        "description": "Early publishing and marketing career.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://ryanholiday.net/about/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Bastrop, Texas",
        "period": "current public work",
        "description": "Publicly documented base of The Painted Porch bookstore.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://ryanholiday.net/about/"
    }
]
```