"Don't Try" -- The Strange Life Lessons of Charles Bukowskicurated youtube.
i think i might have mentioned it already, but: i love collecting and cataloging stuff. so if you're ever bored or in a rutt, here are all the youtube videos i liked over the past couple of years that i tought were worth saving. each has a summary note attached - and no, i did not write them by hand. they are mainly there for all the knowledge indexes to automatically connect them to other notes and make them retrievable by the mcp.
"Don't Try" -- The Strange Life Lessons of Charles Bukowski
4-Dimensional Rotation
90's minimalism: the aesthetic that refuses to die
A 1.58-Dimensional Object
A Cosmic Coincidence
A fascinating differential equation: when the derivative equals the inverse function
A Photographer's Guide To Self Expression
A Rocket Exploded. We Need to do Math
A Study of Nuclear Semiotics
A to Z of Biblical Demons
Absolute Infinity - Numberphile
Absurdism | How to Party at the End of Meaning ☄️
AI and human intelligence
AI needs to feel pain
AI tokens and the cost of agentic coding
AI water use and the boundaries of resource accounting
AI, Creativity, and the Infinite Cycle
Algorithms Manipulate You. Make Your Own Instead.
All Myths Are True
Amazon innovation system
American Anti-Intellectualism
Aphantasia: Why "Blind Imagination" Could Be the Key to Understanding Consciousness
Apple Design: The twenty pixels that changed design forever
Are Dreams made of Atoms?
Are We Entering a New Romantic Era?
Art of the Unconscious Mind
Attention Sink: The Fluke That Made LLMs Actually Usable
Automated Analog Circuit Modeling - C++, Python, MATLAB, and XML - Eric Tarr - ADCxGather 2024
Bad typography has ruined more than just the Oscars
Bauhaus 100: A BBC Arts Documentary
Be a Loser - The Philosophy of Henry David Thoreau
Before the startup
Being offline is the new online trend
Blitzscaling
Body horror and embodiment
Bruce Gilden on street photography
Charles Bukowski: pain, work, and persistence
Chess is When You Microdose Infinity
Chronovisor: The Vatican's Secret Device to See Through Time
Coal is Extremely Dumb
Compilers, How They Work, And Writing Them From Scratch
Complex Adaptive Systems (Stonk Market) and How to Beat Them
Creative practice against doomscrolling
Crowded or Lonely? The Statistics of Alien Life
Culture is Not your Friend
Culture Is Not Your Friend
Dark Christian Relics
De-Dollarization Does Not Matter
Death of the Follower and the Future of Creativity on the Web
Deriving the discrete Fourier transform
Destroying yourself to find yourself: a questionable male tradition
Did the CIA Discover the Spirit World?
Did The Past Really Happen?
Differential equations, a tourist's guide | DE1
Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations, fluid flow, and more
Do Spiders Dream Like Humans Do? This Researcher Wants to Find Out
Does -1/12 Protect Us From Infinity? - Numberphile
Does a Cult Control the United States? | The Bohemian Grove Exposed
Does Society Need God?
doing math is lonely
Dressing for age and personal style
drowning in entertainment: the age of distraction
Dystopias: Real Ones vs. the Movies
Emulating a CPU in C++ (6502)
Engineering success for audio software in a crowded market
everybody is a total mess (and you should be one too)
everyone wants to log off, but who actually can?
Everything I Learned at Stanford Business School in 28 Minutes
Execution over ideas
Fashion is not cool anymore
Fashion, competence, and the missing sauce
Fear, dehumanization, and ordinary evil
FLORIDA
Forgotten Innovations of a "Perfect Town"
Foundation: Are We Predictable?
Four Dimensional Reverb
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Design Process
Free will and the NPC test
Game Theory is the Cheat Code to Life
Gamification that changes behavior
Generative functional-music audio and video examples
Generative functional-music audio and video examples
Generative functional-music audio and video examples
Generative functional-music audio and video examples
Generative functional-music audio and video examples
Generative functional-music audio and video examples
Good information is expensive
Gradient descent vs evolution
Has Finance Killed Capitalism?
Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right
Hinduism is Incredibly Groovy stuff
Hobbies and changing identities
How Absurdism Can Change Your Mindset (and Save You From Misery)
How AI could help us talk to animals
How Animals Got Butts
How Ants Discovered Agriculture
How Boring Was the Boring Billion Really?
How Brands Use Design & Marketing to Control Your Mind
How CPUs Do Math(s) - Computerphile
How Different Cultures Defined a Life Well-Spent
How Facebook is destroying democracies around the globe | ZDF Magazin Royale
How Finland Became the World's Happiest Country
How Frank Lloyd Wright Reshaped America
How Good People Make Bad Leaders | Machiavelli's The Prince
How Governments Use Design & Propaganda to Control You
How is this Website so fast!?
How One Plant Murdered a Continent
How Shor's Algorithm Factors 314191
How social media fuels useless products
How the US government got hip graphic design — and then lost it
How the world's biggest bank is bracing for climate catastrophe
How The World’s First Finance Bro Ruined A Nation
How to Destroy a Country
How To Make A CPU
How to Perform an Exorcism
How to turn your Neighborhood into a Village
How Will We Know When AI is Conscious?
Humanity is Feral
I Photographed Hillary Clinton (And It Was Awful)
I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain
Ikigai and choosing a life
Inner monologue and the making of a self
Instructions for a Cr*ppy Life
Interior design as self-expression
Iodized salt and the public health bargain
Ireland and the basic income for art
It Really Is That Damn Phone
Jim Simons Trading Secrets 1.1 MARKOV Process
Jony Ive on care and making
Keith Haring's line and AI
Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)
Limbo: How Consciousness Expands
Limitless as a self-improvement fable
living with a friend who transcended humanity
Machiavelli and the world as it is
Making a Deal with the Devil: Pros & Cons
Making things people connect with
Marketing as context
Math's Fundamental Flaw
Meaning and the pursuit of happiness
Megalophobia - The Fear Everyone Has
Men are not chic
Microsoft's Topological Quantum Computer Explained
Most People Have Never Been Adults
Nietzsche's Most Controversial Idea | Beyond Good and Evil
No amount of esoteric wisdom will fold your laundry for you
Nosferatu dancing to Lady Gaga
Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music
Notifications as behavior design
Operating system concepts from boot to shutdown
Our Alien Overlords | How We Secretly Serve The Tall Whites
Our Culture is Eating Itself
our perception of reality is limited
Overstimulation is Ruining Your Life
Paradise Lost: The Fall of Satan Explained
Phones Ruined Everything
Pi: obsession, pattern, and transcendence
Plato’s Guide to Fixing Politics | The Republic
Pleasure Will Destroy Society | Brave New World
Premium websites and perceived quality
Productivity Rips You Apart
Programming in assembly without an operating system
Q as trickster and judge
Reasoning as a social tool
Remember when people used to be interesting?
Rick Owens answers questions on queer culture, punk gigs and sex clubs | i-D Asks
S-Tier Acrobatics Calculus That Physicists Do
Scale, awe, and social power
Self-reproduction from quines to the Game of Life
Severance Terrifies Me… in a Good Way
Showing you a color you’ve never seen before.
Simulating Gravity in C++
Slavoj Zizek: Brauchen wir eine globale Umstrukturierung? | Doku HD | ARTE
Smoking, nostalgia, and social deviance
Social media and short-form stories
Social media virality and the first half second
Sounds of the Mandelbrot Set
Spectacle, simulation, and the hyperreal
Spectralism: A Short Introduction to Spectral Music
SQLite, three developers, and a trillion databases
Startup funding
Startup timing
Stoicism: Become Undefeatable
STOP getting distracted by algorithms, become addicted to your passions
Survival Guide to Ragnarok | The Norse Apocalypse Explained
Swiss web design: simple, but it works. Here's why
System Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
Systems thinking and emergence
Teaching myself C so I can build a particle simulation
Tech Bros Invented Trains And It Broke Me
The 9 Types of Biblical Angels Explained
The addiction that ruined my 20s
The Age of VAMPIRES
The Answer is Not a Hut in the Woods
The Art of Living an Absurd Existence
The Bauhaus Design Process
The Bayesian Trap
The Biggest Problem with Social Media Nobody Talks About
The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics
The Book of Enoch: The Origin of the Nephilim Explained
The Camp of Catholicism
The Columbine Film That Did What Journalism Can't
The Concept So Much of Modern Math is Built On | Compactness
The Cosmic Shoreline and Collective Human Agency
The Cry for Help Buried in our Culture
The Dead Internet Theory
The depressing psychology of deep thinkers
The Devil’s Terrifying Philosophy | Paradise Lost
The Discovery That Transformed Pi
The edge of language and raw experience
The Edge of the Universe is wild af
The evil god challenge
The FFT through polynomial multiplication
The Final Barrier to (Nearly) Infinite Energy
The flaw in every voting system
The Founder of the Bauhaus: Walter Gropius
The Future of Music Is Noise
The Genius Behind the Quantum Navigation Breakthrough
The Gist Of Western Philosophy
The great friendship collapse: Inside The Anti-Social Century | Derek Thompson
The Harder You Try, The Worse It Gets - The Philosophy of Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Hardest Problem Evolution Ever Solved
The Hidden Cost of "Clean" Design
The Hole In Your Brain That Makes You Doomscroll
The Horror of Dune's Spaceships
The Importance of Real Things
The Infinite Money Glitch Breaking the Stock Market
The Insanity of Salvia
The layers of language
The Loss of Soul in the Modern World | Henry David Thoreau
The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”
The Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
The Mathematics of Signal Processing | The z-transform, discrete signals, and more
The Most Arrogant Science Book Ever Written
The Most Dangerous Idea in History | Nihilism
The most important skill in statistics | Monte Carlo Simulation
The Most Successful Typeface in History | Helvetica
The Mystery at the Bottom of Physics
The Myth of Productivity
The Myth of Self Improvement
The Nightmare Artist
The Occult Origins of Nosferatu (1922)
The Odds of Life
The Only War You Will Not Win
The Paintings You Aren't Supposed to See
The Philosophy of DARK: Time Travel, Death, and Desire
The Power of Delusional Self Belief
The Problem With Buying Taste
The real reason suburbs were built for cars
The Reality You're In, And The Reality In You
The revolt against technology
The Ridiculous Engineering of Loading Screens
The Ridiculous Engineering Of YouTube Videos
The Rise And Fall of the "Tech Bro"
The Scariest Alien Race Ever Imagined
The Secret History of the Antichrist
The Stock Market Always Wins
The stock market as a distributed computer
The Strange Return of Art Deco in America
The Strange Weirdness Of Language
The Strangest Idea in Science: Quantum Immortality
The Terror of the Pyramids
The truth about Frank Lloyd Wright's utopia
The Unending Violence of Vincent van Gogh
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Abstraction in Math
The World's Dumbest Black Market Trade
This game theory problem will change the way you see the world
This open problem taught me what topology is
Those Who Curate, and Those Who Consume
Till Reiners stellt sich Deutsche als Geflüchtete vor | Till Reiners’ Happy Hour
Time and metaphysical questions
Trading strategy toolbox
True Random Numbers - Computerphile
Truth
UFO Sightings at Nuclear Bases (Full Episode) | UFOs: Investigating the Unknown
Unemployed Guy Explains Option Trading in 5 Levels of Complexity
Unfortunately, You Need to Know What the Jevons Paradox is
Unravelling the Magic behind Polyrhythms
Value proposition design
Venture funding and control
Was Christianity an Ancient PSYOP?
Was Modern Architecture A Mistake?
We All Got Tricked into Content Addiction
Wearing v styling menswear
What AI Teaches Us About Game Theory (It's Unsettling)
What Happens After a God Goes Mad?
What happens to a person when they were bullied as a kid
What if Humans Are NOT Earth's First Civilization? | Silurian Hypothesis
What If The Cosmological Constant Is NOT Constant?
What If You're Boring?
What Is Kafkaesque? - The 'Philosophy' of Franz Kafka
What it’s like to work in the world’s greatest office
What Lies Between a Function and Its Derivative? | Fractional Calculus
What nobody tells you about living in NYC
When did the DJ become the Main Character?
Where madness begins
Why Bible Accurate Angels Are So Creepy
Why Crows Are as Smart as 7 Year Old Humans
Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
why do some things just look so good?
Why Everyone Hates Tech Now
Why everything you buy is worse now
Why Final Self Portraits Are Terrifying
Why Finding Aliens Could Doom Humanity
Why is Everything Boring Now
Why Is God Evil? | Three Body Problem
why is Sisyphus happy?
Why Modern Life Feels So Empty
Why One Company Technically Owns Every Stock in the US
Why RollerCoaster Tycoon Is A Masterpiece
Why Socrates Hated Democracy
Why The Modern World Makes No Sense
Why the world is mad | Kafka's The Trial
Why These Rooms Disappeared From Our Homes
Why Won’t America’s Aging Elite Retire?
why you are having an existential crisis
Why You Hate The Modern World | Kierkegaard's The Present Age
Why you NEED to read Franz Kafka
Why You Should Be More Pretentious
Why Young People Love Old Things
Will taking ayahuasca help you maximize shareholder value?
Write Notes Like Joan Didion
You Have to Go Into the Unknown
You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information