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Some videos for your holiday break

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

All behavior makes sense with sufficient information

"Follow your passion" is terrible advice

It's time to treat seed oils like you do refined sugars

Die helping, not clutching the levers of power

The media industry badly needs to enter 'founder mode'

Trad media now openly hates the internet

Why Dems lost the presidency

Don't let machines or the crowd decide your world

Rundown on the state of social

The kids aren't entitled, they're suffering

I appreciate you

TikTok and Instagram are intellectual poison

The cult of blind ambition

Calling a top on gawking

The modern atheist movement is wrong

Thoughts on algos

The self-control crisis

On significance

Modernity's youth obsession is (still) dumb

Everyone is way too thirsty

Only 3 more months of chaos

How to build or break habits

New Live mix for 2024

The role of media in promoting competence

Why persistence rules

You should be able to push mow 2 full acres

Fishing, poker, TV and digital community building

Marketing lessons from religious institutions

Big tech: fix your customer support, we're done doing unpaid labor

Pop music: the TV dinner of our cultural diet

Are we having fun yet?

Why most creators don’t embrace distribution

From boredom to fascination: my journey with education

Most people's musical taste is stuck

The Circle: emblematic of Hollywood's tech hate and current creative dark age

Star Trek's warning against collectivist tyranny

If information is important, it will find you

The (total) eclipse was cool

Legacy industry rot is an ill of our time

Good sleep fixes most things

The context is the point

You aren't upset enough about the war on hyperlinks

How 'The Time Machine' explains the future of knowledge work

Chasing shadows: the empty pursuits of money and fame as end goals

Quake: how the future of tech was already here in the late 90s

Overcoming our nihilistic, uncreative world

Why I'm (still) not buying the VR hype

Thoughts on the modern plight of creatives

Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise

MBAs and the death of credentialism

The tech sector needs to rediscover quirky, reasonably-priced gadgets

The Internet is the real world

Prioritizing origin over truth is a recipe for ignorance

You don't need the new year to make change