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Can We Escape? On Deleuze and Heidegger with Johannes Niederhauser
We're launching our Deleuze vs. Heidegger seminar, starting this Sunday, November 22. Download the reading list: otherlife.co/deleuze-vs-heidegger
Video Futurism: Networked & Monetized, with Anirudh Pai of Superpeer
Neo-China arrives from the future, as a networked and monetized video platform called Superpeer. Anirudh Pai explains why he believes education will merge with the inf...
Dating and Mating Via Twitter with @Default_Friend
Learn how Default met two different boyfriends through Twitter, how she networked her way into tech without tech skills, some copywriting tips for creators, and why we...
On Marriage
One of the luckiest accidents of my life was British visa restrictions forcing me & my girlfriend to decide if we were truly in love or just pretending.
Making Social Theory Viral on TikTok with Biz Sherbert
Biz Sherbert is a fashion theorist inspired by Mark Fisher, who's figured out how to make academic theory resonate with millions of people on TikTok. These videos earn...
Buying Mansions Without Money and Writer-Entrepreneurship with Max Nussenbaum of On Deck
Max Nussenbaum is an author and entrepreneur who currently runs the On Deck Writing Fellowship, a new Silicon Valley take on modern education and career acceleration. ...
How to Build a Mafia with Sudarshan Sridharan of Fion.tech
Sudarshan Sridharan is a 20-year-old co-founder of the wildfire prediction startup Fion.tech, and co-creator of the Gen Z Mafia. We discuss how to launch a tech startu...
Growing a Social Science Newsletter from a Creator House in Mexico, with Brett Goldstein
Brett Goldstein writes the newsletter SocialStudies.news. We talk about the untapped riches of social science for creators and founders, and how to think about brandin...
Meet the Gen Z Mafia, with Ringleader Emma Salinas
Gen Z Mafia is a Discord server incubating teenage billionaires. I talk with one of the ringleaders about community design, Gen Z psychology, and business models.
Should you start a Substack?
For most of you, no, starting a Substack is not the best way to build a financially sustainable long-term writing project. You should definitely build an email list, b...
Self-Publishing Non-Fiction with David Kadavy
David Kadavy is a full-time author of non-fiction books. He shares a ton of practical insight about Amazon's publishing system, how you should consider using paid ads,...
Tech Twitter's Christian Wunderkind Nicole Williams
Find Nicole at twitter.com/nwilliams030. ➡️ Patrons get early access to podcasts, not-yet-published writings, videos from my paid courses, and more. Become a patron at...
From Hacker to Homesteading Author with Travis Corcoran
Travis Corcoran worked on startups before he built a homestead and turned to indie book writing and publishing. He recently launched a homesteading book on Kickstarter...
The Lindy Scam: A Case Study of Paul Skallas
Paul Skallas aka Lindy Man is an acolyte of Nassim Taleb. He operates a particularly strange and, frankly, dubious hustle selling ebooks. This is a case study of his o...
Introduction to Georges Bataille with Nina Power
Get our free Bataille study guide and learn more about our online course at theotherlifenow.com/bataille. ➡️ If you'd like to discuss this podcast with me and others,...
Anna Khachiyan's Insubordination
Anna Khachiyan from Red Scare tells the story of how she left her PhD program at NYU; how she has more intellectual influence because of it; whether living in NYC is w...
Selling Zines and Quitting Jobs with Sonya Mann
We look under the hood of Sonya's business operations as a writer and zine-maker
How Aella Makes Bank on OnlyFans
Aella is a blogger who recently started on OnlyFans, the new decentralized porn platform revolutionizing the adult industry. We talk about the sociology and economics ...
Do Not Despair (Kierkegaard and The Sickness Unto Death)
Some reflections on despair, existentialism, and Christianity via Kierkegaard's book The Sickness Unto Death. ➡️ I publish a free weekly newsletter about independent i...
Radical Politics for Control Societies: Based Deleuze Lecture 4
This is Lecture 4 (out of 6) in the Based Deleuze lecture course. You can get the whole series at gum.co/deleuze. ➡️If you'd like to join my Discord server, request an...
Engineering negative virality
In-depth case study of a nuclear tweet. After my globally nuclear tweet about Greta & Epstein, I thought a lot about the factors that predict negative virality (AKA be...
The Social Science of Tiger King with Geoffrey Miller and Diana Fleischman
The absolute final word on all social-scientific questions related to Tiger King, the recent Netflix documentary. Taking questions from Twitter, we analyze: Why these ...
Midnight B4 Moldbug in LA w/ Barrett Avner, Alex Moyer, and Wanyoung Kim
We recorded this late in the evening before the live show with Curtis Yarvin. It's lit, based, and fire. ✦ Barrett Avner of Contain ✦ Alex Moyer, director of TFW NO GF...
Curtis Yarvin Live at the Based Deleuze Release Party in LA
In our epic 3-hour talk, Curtis Yarvin discusses: Democracy, his preference for Bernie Sanders, debunking the American Revolution, benevolent dictatorship, Ancient Rom...
Quarantined Bunkercast with Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller
On the COVID-19 pandemic, intergenerational warfare, comparative politics, exogenous shocks, class war, whether Trump caught the virus, and other speculations on the n...
TFW NO GF with Filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer
TFW NO GF is a documentary about young men on the internet (pepe? wojak? frogtwitter? incels?). It was set to premiere at SXSW before the whole festival got cancelled ...
Aella the Enlightened Cam Girl Writer and Entrepreneur
Aella (@Aella_Girl) is an internet thinker/creator/entrepreneur in the Rationalish sphere. She just launched a new card game called Askhole, research-backed card game ...