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Knowledge → Mental Models → Nature
See the maths move
By the end you’ll have played with chance, dragged a system into place, and found the same maths waiting in a river.
3 stops · 29 min
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Seeing Theory: Probability, Visually
Brown University
2
Markov Chains, Visually
Setosa
3
Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?
Quanta Magazine
Music → Music → Music
Play it, then feel what it does
By the end you’ll have made a sound, built a beat, and learned what all of it is quietly doing to your brain.
3 stops · 21 min
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Chrome Music Lab
Google
2
Groove Pizza: Beats as Geometry
NYU MusEDLab
3
How Music Rewires the Brain
UCF Pegasus
Knowledge → Knowledge → Knowledge
How to actually read
By the end you’ll know how to read a book properly, why the right one changes you, and how it becomes a mind of your own.
3 stops · 31 min
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How to Read a Book Properly
Farnam Street
2
Anaïs Nin on How Reading Wakes Us Up
The Marginalian
3
How to Think for Yourself
Paul Graham
Psychology → Marketing → Marketing
The web is fighting you
By the end you’ll have lost to a game’s own rules, wrestled a screen built to fail you, and seen the modern web is like this on purpose.
3 stops · 18 min
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The Password Game
neal.fun
2
User Inyerface: A Worst-Practice UI Game
Bagaar
3
How I Experience Web Today
How I Experience Web Today
Wellness → Travel → Music
Slow down on purpose
By the end you’ll have sat in the rain, heard the case for going slow, and learned slowness isn’t doing less — it’s paying more attention.
3 stops · 27 min
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Rainy Mood
Rainy Mood
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Slow Travel: The Antidote to the Itinerary
Slow Living London
3
The Lost Art of Deep Listening
Wikipedia
Knowledge → Travel → Knowledge
You are not standing still
By the end you’ll have found the real sky above your head, left it behind for the stars, and learned you were never sitting still to begin with.
3 stops · 32 min
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Stellarium: The Sky, Live
Stellarium
2
100,000 Stars
Google Data Arts
3
How Earth Moves
Vsauce
Nature → Curiosity → Knowledge
Your gut is bad at physics
By the end you’ll have watched glass, spin and gravity each make a fool of your instincts — and seen it’s the same instinct failing all three times.
3 stops · 54 min
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Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps
SmarterEveryDay
2
The Bizarre Behaviour of Rotating Bodies
Veritasium
3
Why Gravity Is Not a Force
Veritasium
Mental Models → Mental Models → Mental Models
Three tools for a stuck mind
By the end you’ll have three ways to take a hard problem apart — and one warning about when your clever new tools will burn you.
3 stops · 24 min
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First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge
Farnam Street
2
Inversion: The Most Underused Mental Model
Farnam Street
3
Chesterton's Fence
Farnam Street
Storytelling → Storytelling → Storytelling
Every story has a shape
By the end you’ll see the hidden skeleton under every story you love — a shape you can draw on a napkin, and one that runs all the way down to the rhyme.
3 stops · 26 min
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Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
YouTube Archive
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The Architecture of a Great Story
Every
3
The Hamilton Polygraph: Rhyme in Miranda's Lyrics
The Pudding
Music → Jazz → Jazz
Making it up as you go
By the end you’ll have improvised without meaning to, learned what it really is, and seen a musician turn it into a form of prayer.
3 stops · 28 min
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Typatone: Type Yourself a Melody
Typatone
2
Improvisation as a Way of Life
Wikipedia
3
A Love Supreme: Coltrane's Spiritual Blueprint
Jerry Jazz Musician
Wellness → Spirituality → Wellness
Calm is a thing you do
By the end you’ll have quieted the room, slowed your own breath, and learned that calm was never something you find — it’s something you can get better at.
3 stops · 18 min
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A Soft Murmur: Mix Your Own Calm
A Soft Murmur
2
Xhalr: A Breathing Space
Xhalr
3
The Joy of Regulating Your Emotions
Nicky Case
Oddities → Psychology → Design
Why everyone sees the same thing
By the end you'll know why a puzzle, a neighbourhood and a beige sofa all end up in the same place.
3 stops · 29 min
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The Easiest Problem Everyone Gets Wrong
Vsauce2
2
Parable of the Polygons
Hart & Case
3
Why Everything Is Beige Now
The Conversation
Curiosity → Nature → Nature
The scale you can’t picture
By the end you’ll have a feel for how big and how deep things actually get — and why that feeling has a name.
3 stops · 20 min
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The Size of Space
neal.fun
2
The Deep Sea
neal.fun
3
On the Origin of Wonder
Behavioral Scientist
Design → Design → Art
What design is doing to you
By the end you’ll notice the decisions someone made for you — in your room, your pockets, your feed.
3 stops · 34 min
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Women’s Pockets Are Inferior — A Data Study
The Pudding
2
Cameras and Lenses, Explained
Bartosz Ciechanowski
3
The Bauhaus Never Ended
Highsnobiety
Nature → Psychology → Nature
Nobody is conducting this
By the end you’ll know how a field of insects, a room of people and a forest all fall into step with nobody in charge — and where that story gets oversold.
3 stops · 24 min
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How Fireflies Sync Themselves
Nicky Case
2
Crowds: The Wisdom and Madness of Groups
Nicky Case
3
The Forest Is Smarter Than You Think
The Conversation
Music → Music → Music
Sound, if you could see it
By the end you’ll know what’s actually moving when something makes a noise — and you’ll have drawn one yourself first.
3 stops · 25 min
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Kandinsky: Draw a Sound
Google
2
Let’s Learn About Waveforms
The Pudding
3
Sound, From First Principles
Bartosz Ciechanowski
Psychology → Experiences → Experiences
What your hands know
By the end you’ll have watched understanding and ability come apart — and picked up two skills you can prove tonight.
3 stops · 35 min
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The Backwards Brain Bicycle
SmarterEveryDay
2
Learn to Solve a Rubik's Cube in One Day
Mike Boyd
3
Learn to Pick a Lock
Mike Boyd
Media → Media → Media
The internet has a body
By the end you’ll stop picturing the internet as a cloud and start picturing it as objects, cables, and people typing right now.
3 stops · 19 min
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Internet Artifacts
neal.fun
2
Submarine Cable Map
TeleGeography
3
Listen to Wikipedia
Hatnote
Philosophy → Philosophy → Psychology
Choices that aren’t yours to make
By the end you’ll have handed one decision to a machine and another to a crowd, and seen what each of them does to it.
3 stops · 22 min
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Absurd Trolley Problems
neal.fun
2
The Moral Machine
MIT Media Lab
3
To Build a Better Ballot
Nicky Case
Travel → Music → People
Somewhere else, right now
By the end you’ll have looked out of a stranger’s window, listened to their radio, and seen what their kitchen actually looks like.
3 stops · 18 min
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WindowSwap: Someone Else's View
WindowSwap
2
Radio Garden: Spin the Globe, Tune In
Radio Garden
3
Dollar Street: How the World Really Lives
Gapminder
Music → Art → Experiences
Make something in ten minutes
By the end you’ll have made a noise, a small disaster and a very bad racetrack — none of which existed this morning.
3 stops · 16 min
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Patatap: Sound as Colour
Patatap
2
Sandspiel: A Falling-Sand World
Sandspiel
3
Line Rider: Draw a Track, Take the Ride
Line Rider
Philosophy → Wellness → Business
The time you have left
By the end you’ll have counted something you’d rather not — and found a saner way to spend what’s left.
3 stops · 26 min
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The Tail End
Wait But Why
2
Good and Bad Procrastination
Paul Graham
3
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Paul Graham
Magic → Magic → Psychology
You can’t trust your own eyes
By the end you’ll have been fooled by a face, by your own vision, and by a snap judgement — and seen it’s one reflex.
3 stops · 17 min
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This Person Does Not Exist
This Person Does Not Exist
2
156 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
Michael Bach
3
Hidden Bias
Google PAIR
Mental Models → Knowledge → Media
How a spark becomes a wildfire
By the end you’ll have built a runaway loop, watched a whole network catch, and realised you’re a node in one.
3 stops · 24 min
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LOOPY: Build a System, Watch It Loop
Nicky Case
2
Going Critical
Melting Asphalt
3
We Become What We Behold
Nicky Case
Business → Business → Psychology
What money does to a month
By the end you’ll have blown a fortune, scraped through a month on nothing, and learned what scarcity does to a mind.
3 stops · 21 min
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Spend Bill Gates' Money
neal.fun
2
Spent: Surviving the Month on $1,000
Urban Ministries
3
The fog of hunger
Aeon
Frontal
Brainstem
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