Antidote to Slop: An Archive of Life-Changing Material

Updating regularly - new concept.

Last updated - 24 October 2026

• New written content:

• New documentary content:

  • Tacit: Fingal Ferguson, Master Knifemaker (10 min)

  • Tacit: Christophe Laudamiel, Master Perfumer (14 min)

  • We Are As Gods (1hr 33min)

  • The Street Network (La Red Callejera) (22 min)

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Amount of content in hours

Written format:

• Life: 11hr 35min

• Art: 9hr 26min

• Memos: 3hr 42min

• Biz / career: 6hr 26min

Video content:

YouTube: 27hr 24min

• Life: 6hr 20min

• Art: 4hr 45min

• Interviews: 12hr 18min

• Biz / career: 4hr 01min

Documentaries: 91hr 02min

Total: 149hr 35min

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Archive Of Life-Changing Material

Written content

Life

• Self-Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson (20 min)

• The Tail End (6 min)

• Life is short (4 min)

• What medieval people got right about learning (6 min)

• I know what you think of me (4 min)

• Reddit guide to the TM (6 min)

• Mr. Jaynes’ Wild Ride (20 min)

• The Only Thing to Do (4 min)

• The Self-Help Trap: What 20+ Years of “Optimizing” Has Taught Me - Tim Ferriss (20 min)

• The Real Heroes Are Dead (35 min)

• Honesty and the Human Body (15 min)

• Mental Wealth (12 min)

• Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole (36 min)

• 50 Ideas That Changed My Life (5 min)

• A Project of One Own (5 min)

• Random Ideas About Life (4 min)

• Becoming the person who does the thing (5 min)

• Advice That Actually Worked For Me (10 min)

• The Inner Ring (8 min)

• School is Not Enough (15 min)

• Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (15 min)

• Why I Write - George Orwell (15 min)

• Playing Doc Game (1hr 10min)

• Willingness to look stupid (8 min)

• Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas (10 min)

• What is Hedonic Adaptation and How Can it Turn You Into a Sucka? (7 min)

• Industrial Society and Its Future (1hr 10min)

• Notes on Internet Addiction (2 min)

• Playing to win - David Sirlin (5 min)

• Do It Now - Steve Pavlina (15 min)

• 101 Additional Advice - Kevin Kelly (12 min)

• Why am I always late (10 min)

• Doing well in your courses - Andrej Karpathy (5 min)

• Dog Story - Scott Adams (3 min)

• How Social Media Shortens Your Life (20 min)

• I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life (4 min)

• 100 Ways To Live Better - Putanumonit (15 min)

• Keep your identity small (5 min)

• Politics And English Language (18 min)

• 100 Tips For A Better Life (12 min)

• Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life (5 min)

• How to Time Travel (2 min)

• Principles - Nabeel S. Qureshi (3 min)

• 100 ways to live better - Lesswrong (16 min)

• Ten Step Nightlife Preparation Routine - G Manifesto (8 min)

• 1,000 True Fans - Kevin Kelly (12 min)

• FUNDAMENTALS -- NEVILLE (5 min)

• The days are long, but the decades are short (6 min)

• Why You Need F-You Money (4 min)

• $1 Million, 10 Years, Zero Excuses - WSP (12 min)

• High Agency in 30 minutes - George Mack (30 min)

• Today You, Tomorrow Me (3 min)

• How to Get Lucky: Focus On The Fat Tails (5 min)

• If Charlie Munger Didn’t Quit When… - Joshua Kennon (2 min)

• Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz (7 min)

• Childhoods of exceptional people (14 min)

Art

• The Playboy Interview With Miles Davis (15 min)

• The Playboy Interview With Jimmy Carter (1 hr)

• How Larry Gagosian Reshaped the Art World (20 min)

• Lectures on the Art of Reading - Andrew Symons (13 min)

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1 hr)

• Federer as Religious Experience - David Foster Wallace (30 min)

• 10 Principles of Good Design - Dieter Rams (5 min)

• How Pixar Foster Collective Creativity - Ed Catmull (20 min)

• Hayao Miyazaki: 9 Creative Lessons - Trungphan2 (15 min)

• The Man Who Ate Hollywood - Mark Seal (1hr 15min)

• Daft Punk: An In-Depth History (25 min)

• Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - Gay Talese (35 min)

• 100 greatest artists - Rolling Stone (1hr 40min)

• There’s no speed limit - Derek Sivers (3 min)

• Make Something Wonderful - Leslie Berlin (1hr 30min)

Business / Career

• Makers schedule, managers schedule (6 min)

• Finding fulfillment (8 min)

• Peter Thiel on what works at work (9 min)

• The Best Venture Firm You’ve Never Heard Of (15 min)

• The Prince of Solomeo (20 min)

• Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968

• Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (35 min)

• Why Software Is Eating the World - Marc Andreessen (8 min)

• How to Do Great Work - Paul Graham (35 min)

• How to be successful - Sam Altman (9 min)

• The 37signals Guide to Making Decisions (4 min)

• Lessons from Keith Rabois (8 min)

• Morgan Housel - Betting On Things That Never Change (6 min)

• Patrick Colisson - Fast (8 min)

• GOLDEN RULES FOR MAKING MONEY - P.T. Barnum (1hr 10min)

• Ben Horowitz - Nobody Cares (7 min)

• CEOs Don’t Steer - Venkat (12 min)

• How McKinsey Makes Its Own Rules - Ian MacDougall (6 min)

• What it’s like to work for Stripe - Alex MacCaw (4 min)

• Kelly’s 14 Project Management Rules - Kelly Johnson (5 min)

• What if you tried hard? - Aaron Francis (4 min)

• How CEOs Manage Time (25 min)

• The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework (5 min)

• The Ultimate Guide for Becoming an Idea Machine (10 min)

• We Don’t Sell Saddles Here (7 min)

• The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” (20 min)

• Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet (12 min)

• Productivity (15 min)

• Brian Armstrong of Coinbase with an email to a new PM (2 min)

• Career Advice (4 min)

• Marc Andreessen on talent and hiring (7 min)

Memos

• Nomad Investments Partnership Letters

• Buffer Owner Manual

• Investor and Operator Resources

• The Education of a Libertarian - Peter Thiel (6 min)

• The Same River Twice - David Quammen (12 min)

• Memos from the Chairman (Bear Stearns) - Alan C. Greenberg (1 hr)

• Bessemer Venture Partners (collection)

• Jobs On Flash - Steve Jobs (7 min)

• The Internet Services Disruption - Ray Ozzie (18 min)

• Tidal Wave - Bill Gates (10 min)

• The Ugly - Andrew Bosworth (4 min)

• How we work and why - Hunter Harrison (1hr 40min)

• The Commoditization of the Starbucks Experience - Howard Schultz (5 min)

Misc

• The Mastermind

• Reading The Room

• The Road to Self-Renewal - John Gardner

• State Of Mind - Artbook

• Valve’s Handbook for New Employees

• The Last Question By Isaac Asimov

• Meta Redbook

• Netflix culture

• The Final Hours Of Half-Life

• MrBeast Production Handbook

• Hubspot Culture Code

• Prompt Library

• Ray Dalio Principles Original Memo

• The Collected Works of Ray Peat

• 1000 nights reading program

• Mindset Rewiring Workbook

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Video content

Life

• Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (1hr 16min)

• The biggest lies we tell ourselves all start with “tomorrow” (35 min)

• Off the Grid with Thomas Massie (47 min)

• Top 10 Life Lessons - Robert Joss (47 min)

• This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech (23 min)

• A day in the life of Japan’s most famous grandpa’s hot dog shop (30 min)

• “I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been” (3 min)

• Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t (1hr 15min)

• Sam Harris basically unlocks the secret to life (4 min)

• Anton Kreil - Respect Money & Be Indifferent Towards It (17 min)

• An old mans advice. (5 min)

• Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him (2 min)

• What Truly Determines Your Future - Jim Rohn Seminar (16 min)

Art

• Jerry Seinfeld’s advice (2 min)

• David Bowie - On Why You Should Never Play To The Gallery (1 min)

• Everything is a Remix (1hr 5min)

• David Lynch - Meditation, Creativity, Peace; Documentary of a 16 Country Tour (1hr 10min)

• Jay Z at studio making The Black Album (23 min)

• Tom Ford Documentary (41 min)

• The Day You Became a Better Writer -- Writing Tips from Dilbert Creator Scott Adams (30 min)

• The privilege of failure (8 min)

• “You and Your Research” (45 min)

Interviews

• Interview with Luigi Colani (45 min)

• Jeff Bezos interview on Starting Amazon (2001) (47 min)

• Jim Simons - Numberphile (1hr)

• A conversation about advertising, with David Ogilvy (55 min)

• When You Truly Work for Yourself (3 min)

• The One Percent (1hr 15min)

• Sam Altman’s Method for Clear Thinking (5 min)

• Hunter Thompson profile (5 min)

• Steve Jobs - The Lost Interview (1hr 6min)

• A 28-year-old Steve Jobs gives a talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen (55 min)

• John McAfee Wild Interview (21 min)

• Michael Jordan’s Wisdom (21 min)

• The Number 1 Thing People Get Wrong About Happiness - Brian Chesky (1hr 41min)

• Hans Zimmer talks (49 min)

• Kapil Gupta: Conquering the Mind (40 min)

• FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman (1hr 6min)

• What makes a great music producer tick? Brian Eno Interviewed (24 min)

Biz / career

• Bankrupt - Pan Am (18 min)

• Competition is for losers (4 min)

• Peter Thiel - Original Thinking (2 min)

• Life lessons from an ad man | Rory Sutherland (19 min)

• Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement (15 min)

• “In Search of Excellence” at Apple Computer in 1984 (11 min)

• How to start a startup - YC series

• Phone 1 - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 (1hr 20min)

• Felix Dennis Words Of Wisdom Can You Get Rich? (8 min)

• The 9 traits Sam Altman looks for to identify founders who can build a $10 billion company (5 min)

• Secrets of success in 8 words (4 min)

• The Psychology of Human Misjudgment - Charlie Munger (1hr 15min)

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Documentaries

Biz / Career

• Startup.com (1hr 47min)

• Icahn (1hr 41min)

• Agnelli (1hr 43min)

• Inside Job (1hr 49min)

• Print the Legend (1hr 40min)

• General Magic (1hr 32min)

• Triumph of the Nerds Series

• The Pixar Story (1hr 24min)

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (1hr 50min)

• Sour Grapes (1hr 25min)

• One Of One (1hr 20min)

• Rams (1hr 15min)

Art

• Tacit: Fingal Ferguson, Master Knifemaker (10 min)

• Tacit: Christophe Laudamiel, Master Perfumer (14 min)

• Jodorowsky’s Dune (1hr 30min)

• Bill Cunningham New York (1hr 24min)

• Tiger (1hr 30min)

• Comedian (1hr 22min)

• Stop Making Sense (1hr 24min)

• Sounds City (1hr 47min)

• Crumb (2hr 01min)

• David Lynch: The Art Life (1hr 28min)

• The Salt of the Earth (1hr 50min)

• Man on Wire (1hr 34min)

• Civilisation Series

• The Kingdom Of Dreams & Madness (1hr 58min)

• Valentino: The Last Emperor (1hr 40min)

• Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (1hr 57min)

• Nick Cave 20000 Days on Earth (1hr 37min)

• Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (1hr 43min)

• Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (4hr 36min)

• The Kid Stays in the Picture (1hr 33min)

• His Way (1hr 23min)

• Jiro Dream Of Sushi (1hr 22min)

Adventure & Sports

• The Velvet Queen (1hr 32min)

• Michael Jordan to the Max (46 min)

• Hoop Dreams (2hr 51min)

• Free Solo (1hr 40min)

• Momentum Generation (1hr 44min)

• 180 South (1hr 26min)

• Coyote: The Mike Plant Story (1hr 46min)

• Dogtown And Z-Boys (1hr 30min)

• Riding Giants (1hr 41min)

• Grizzly Man (1hr 44min)

• Deep Water (1hr 9min)

• LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (1hr 59min)

• When We Were Kings (1hr 27min)

• Senna (1hr 46min)

• Icarus (2hr 0min)

• Choke (1hr 38min)

• The Last Dance

• Shelby American: The Carroll Shelby Story (1hr 58min)

Life

• The Street Network (La Red Callejera) (22 min)

• We Are As Gods (1hr 33min)

• Cosmos - Carl Sagan Mini Series

• The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2hr 10min)

• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

• Psywar - The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (1hr 39min)

• The Century of the Self Series

• Cocaine Cowboys (1hr 58min)

• The Fog Of War (1hr 47min)

• Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (1hr 35min)

• The Up Series

• Humans Need Not Apply (15 min)

• Thank You For Smoking (Technically a documentary) (1hr 32min)

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