‘Carpe Diem’ Is the Perfect Message for Our Times — but It Doesn’t Mean What You Think

The Latin phrase is less about ‘YOLO’ and more about stopping to smell the roses

Steven Gambardella
Forge
Published in
3 min readSep 12, 2020

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It’s the hashtag of a hundred thousand sunrise photos. It’s spray-painted on walls, emblazoned on T-shirts, and tattooed across chests. In just two words, it has become a productivity…

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Steven Gambardella
Forge
Writer for

History PhD. The lessons of history and philosophy for your life and work. Writes The Sophist: https://sophist.substack.com/