Tim Tries to Draw Things - Day 2

The configured recording path could not be open. Please check your recording path under settings output recording. So it's now started. Okay. I don't know why it's having an issue with the recording, but like you said, it doesn't really matter. All right. Well, we're on. So here we are. We're back. We're back. It took me a couple hours this morning just because I learned a lot from yesterday. And I wanted to... This is... I feel like the music's a little loud. But maybe you disagree. It's more that it's a little loud in my ear, you know? I don't know about you. It's like a little... That's okay. I guess we'll just have loud music today in my ear. Why not? So... I'm glad we're all back here. I'm going for, this is a long session. Get ready. I'm going to be going for at least seven hours, maybe eight, maybe nine. But I got, yes, Alicia is also, so Alicia had surgery a couple days ago. She had knee surgery. She's recovering. And she's finally back, so she can actually answer some questions today. So that's good. And when things go wrong, it won't be me frantically and incompetently trying to figure it out. There'll be more help here. So, I'm just gonna give it one sec for a few more people to arrive. In the meantime, it's a little late, but if you look, see those people are actually just walking across the street. But you can actually, this is a live cam on Abbey Road. and you can actually watch people all day run across and take pictures, but it's also a really busy road with cars constantly coming by and the people are sprinting out of the way and it's just kind of a fun live cam, webcam situation that I like to watch. It's a little late at night now is the problem. It's better in the early morning in the US. Did you ever try Anki? I actually haven't I wrote it down, but I'm procrastinating. I'm starting it I think But it seems like unbelievably awesome and fun It just it just strikes me as something I'd have to like set up for a while I feel like there's kind of it's gonna be like a whole thing to get it going and that's why I haven't started and it doesn't seem like a quick thing, but maybe I'm wrong One quick thing turn this down a little okay. All right, so I think we're getting close to ready here. When is the podcast coming? Probably, I would guess in the summer. It's definitely, it's like top of our agenda once this damn book is done, which is what we're finishing right now. So we're getting close. I'm just trying to figure out one thing here. All right. All right. The first live stream is unlisted. Yeah, I just don't know if we're gonna list them all yet. We're not quite sure what we're gonna do with all these, but we're happy to send anyone. We're leaving it up so anyone can do it. We're just not sure if we're actually gonna display them yet. Okay. Oh. See, the AirPods Max are cool. This little volume thing just solved all my problems. Okay, so I'm gonna go like this. Sorry, we have just some volume issues. I am gonna start in a second. Here we go. Okay, now you guys will let me know if how the volume is doing for the music and my voice and everything else. Okay. See, now we have, yeah, see, the volume just went out. Okay. All right, I know this is not interesting yet. This is gonna get less boring than it is right now. Okay, so, uh, you've been, oh, what happened to the light? What happened to Abbey Road? Oh, Abbey Road. Okay, well, I guess we don't need you anymore anyways. We're gonna move on to other things now. But that is the crosswalk where they crossed in the famous album cover. So, you know that now. Alright, um, let's get going. So, we're gonna put this aside for now. Go over to our main place. Um, this is gonna go away. Nope. Nope. I'm going to go over here. Yeah. And we're going to start with some procrastination. We're going to start with just a little procrastination and then we're going to get into it. So you see I made an agenda. Let's get this agenda up. All right. And wow, things go all over the place. All right. So we have an agenda. And the first thing we're going to do is we're going to start with. A crossword puzzle. We're not going to do the whole thing yet. So look, yesterday we did a medium one. We're going to go challenging today. Fuck it, right? Okay, Anna Schechtman, see what you got for me. Let's make this a little bigger. That didn't make it weird. Okay, that's going to have to be good enough. Now, all right. It may pick up remarks intended to be... Hold on. Here. Sorry. Lots of complicated audio things. All right. It may pick up remarks intended to be private. Hot mic. Thank you. You know what we're doing right now. Okay. I want this. Okay. All right. Backups. Padlock's place. I don't know. Padlock's place. It's like locker or something. Michael of Caddyshack. Oh, I don't know who this is. It's going to be... Oh, Neil or O'Brien or something. Reached out with one's fingertips. Tapped. No. No, it's a challenging puzzle we have to remember, so it's not going to be any gimmies here. Oh, because it's a question mark, right? So the question mark on the clue means that it's like a play on words. It's not like, you know, it's... Come back to that. Celebrity with a namesake serial launched in the 80s. Tech debut of... that's gotta be the iMac. Family Heads. Family Heads. Oh, I don't know. Which one did he discover? I don't know who he is. Subatomic Particle. Well, there's... what are there? There's the different quarks, right? Is it like up quark? Seems like that fits, but there's not gonna start here. Could it be a queue here? Parts of some receipts. Oh, Neutron, huh? All right. All right. Fancy pants, knowing your subatomic particles that were discovered. Right. I was thinking like sub, sub, subatomic, right? You don't need to go down to Quark to have a subatomic particle, obviously. All right. Oh, geez. What the? Gene Dealman, 23. Some bullshit. Director Chantal. No, thank you. Movie with a climax. No plop question mark. Oh, I feel like it's a it's like a porn movie, right? Is that the joke? I don't know. Seems a little risque for the New Yorker crossword, but favorite as a project. Hey, so let's go back over here. Hadlock's place. Okay, this is like I'm going to. Yeah. I don't like this set this area. You know what? I'm gonna go somewhere else because I am allowed to okay, so oh Coupon probably right. I don't really quite get why that's a part of some receipts That might be wrong Trails Motile alternative Why did I pick the hard one today? We can do it that we're gonna do it. We have all day Fuck drawings. They're far from fat cats Peons? I don't know. Some essential workers. RNs? It's wrapped around your little finger. Pinky ring. That was kind of sick. Rivulet. I don't know what that is. I don't know what that word means. Phenomenon that's probably a form of instinct that protects us from proximal sources of danger. So it's that dot dot dot. It's a form of instinct that protects us from proximal... Something sources of danger. Okay. Okay, let's see. Dualist's warning. I'll shoot? No. I don't know. Preppy bit of outerwear. Sweater? Okay. They're far from fat cats. Bow tie alternative. Sweater could be wrong. Trails? Legislation at issue in NFIB versus Sibelius. Is this like Kathleen Sibelius maybe? I don't fucking know. This is, ooh. Okay. Film for which Sally Field won. Oh, I did, was this, it's like Glass Menagerie. I don't know what else she was in. Forrest Gump. What the hell else was she in? Okay, let's see. Spotify's most streamed artist of 2020 and 2021. Well, that should be someone famous. I mean, I don't know. Is that Ariana Grande? No? Is it... Most streamed artist? Wow. Okay. Well, something we should know. Okay. Irate. Furious. No, it's not going to have a U there. Okay. We're going to keep going. This is... Hey, this is how crosswords go. It seems like I'm... I don't know how to do this. And then somehow it ends up cracking. Watch. The whole thing's going to crack eventually. Degree helped by... Hmm. Oh, MBA probably. Right? Did he... I know he... Did he also get his MBA? Yeah. Arthur who inspired... Oh, I don't know. Wait. Yeah, I don't know. Carnet. Um, all right. Oh, wow. Someone's just giving me one here. Let's do it. Fuck it. Oh, yeah. R.L. Stine. I actually think I did know that. Um, but... Is it spelled? If it's spelled E-I-N, then we have a problem here. I think it's probably spelled, yeah, sign, because this E makes sense here. Okay. So, this sweater's probably wrong, right? They're far from fat cats. I'm going to take cat and get rid of this. All right. Peons? I don't really know if that's right. Okay, let's go down to a different area here. What's this? Cosine or secant. Those are, are those waves? They are waves. For example, those are trig functions. Cosine or secant. Oh, they, cosine and secant are the, like, inverses of each other. But that's not what they're asking here. Or secant. Fodder for the gram. Pick. Is that just a pick? How much was this not written by a young person? Fodder for the gram. That's how old people think young people talk. Okay. Slacks say pants. All right. Listlessness. Oh, this is like... Yeah, what is this? It's like... I'm blanking on the word. It's not lang... Okay. Cheesecake. I don't know. Alright, should we stop? Should we start drawing? What do we think? Should we keep going for a little? Langer? Okay, I'll trust you. I'm gonna trust Ian in Montana here. Langer is kind of a stupid word. OU should not really be. If you're doing OU in your word, you have, in general, as a language, you have to reconsider what's going on with you. No time to die, actor. Oh, I don't know. Juice. Let's see, 10 down is Norma Ray. Fuck it, let's go all the way back over here. Okay, there you go, who knew? Rami, who's Rami? Oh, Rami Malek, okay, okay, good. This is a joint activity. Normally, you know, I'm not a cheater, just so you know, but that's because we're actually intentionally, this is a collaboration. I would never normally look things up when I'm doing a crossword. Early 2000s pandemic was like SARS, right? turns red perhaps ripens okay sucks up in a way something a grad student might get credit for well they work on there oh wow all kinds of answers come in okay oh vacuums good good good good point everyone Okay, so that can help us here. A grad student might get credit for a, I don't know. Okay, 54 across. Evil geniuses laugh. That's gonna be like, mwah, but is it a W? Probably, right? Mwah, ha, ha. Is it either a U or a W? But I think it's a W, right? It's a juice power. And so, cheesecake. Man up. I don't understand this at all. Must be some like slang, I don't know. What is like, I don't know, cheesecake. Pocket buildup. Lint, lint, not lent. Lint, okay. Some athleisure. Templeton and Desperue for two. I don't like this one bit. I don't like that one bit. Passing over in a way. Okay, okay, let's come back down here cheerleader hip for hip hip hooray So semi a grad student might get credit for us a semester no a semi Seminar ah seminar. Okay something for you Comedy Central series This is Nathan for you, right? Seven member billboard group Six, seven-member group, six people are number one. Seven member. Okay. Refined. Rock, paper, scissors. Rock, paper, or scissors. Oh, BTS. Okay, we're getting a hint here. So if that, then this is urbane, probably. And so now, group opposed by Everytown for gun safety. NRA. Everytown. Rock, paper, or scissor? Noun, ha. Okay. Grow rapidly. You're like, I came here for drawings. What the hell is going on? Like, some new people are definitely unbelievably confused right now. But if you look at our agenda, let's just make this a little bit better. See our agenda? We're on number one right now, everyone. Just, you know, look, procrastinators don't get right into work. You should know this. Okay, Montana wants me to keep going. And I figured out the music. See? Ooh. Damn it, I wish I hadn't looked because I would have liked to get this one myself, but I did just look at the end. Ryan Mori, well done. Uncanny Valley. Yeah. Uncanny Valley. Let's just pause for one second here. Uncanny Valley, you know, they're going to show some creepy robots. See, this is not okay. No. No thank you. No thank you. No thank you with her. You know, because it's horror movie-esque. The Uncanny Valley, so here's what the Uncanny Valley is. It's that as you get more and more human likeness, so if you notice, Pixar films look a little like humans, but not really. Disney and Pixar films have huge eyes, right? They don't actually look at anything like real people. Stuffed animals, right? We're good. You know, industrial robot obviously looks nothing at all like a human. And so familiarity, right? So we get, we get, we like it more and more and more as it gets closer to us, right? And then it gets too close. It gets like 99% of the way to us and we hate it suddenly. It creeps us out and then it gets all the way to us and we like it again because that's just a person. So like, we don't like this guy. And if you notice, Pixar films aren't going to do people that look quite like this. They're not going to make them look just like us. They're going to make them look like a Disney version of us. So anyway, that's the Uncanny Valley. And on that note, it's very hard. See, the problem is when you start procrastinating, you really don't want to stop. Like, I want to finish this now. But we're going to come back to this. Okay? Cheesecake. The fuck could this be? Anyway, we're going to come back to this later. So I'm going to force our... Hey! Oh, I guess I should introduce the dogs again. So here we've got Remy. She gets, she gets, they're gonna get introduced twice a day. She is a friend of mine, Schmugglish Boo. And she is two, so she's two and a half. So she's like a pretty good girl at this point. But then we have the world's biggest bad boy. And this is the world's bad boy. Gus, look at the camera. Gus. This is Gus. And he is a bad boy. Because he's only seven months old, but he's also a very close friend of mine. So these are the dogs that are going to be barking and driving me crazy for them. I gave them, by the way, I gave them two bones to chew on so they wouldn't get out of my face right now. And they're fighting over one of them. Well, the other one's just lying there. It's just in Maine. Okay. Don't worry about Winston. Winston's fine. Winston's with very good friends of mine, living in a place where he has a giant yard to tramp around. And at some point, if we have a yard, we will have Winston back in our yard. But at the moment, he's very happy living right nearby with good friends. And we get to get lots of updates and see him, you know, which is nice. Okay. So should we start drawings? I guess we should start drawings. Let's start drawings. Here we go. We have a lot to do today. I really want to get a lot of drawings done today. And the problem is, so you see the early hours, early hours, but for me, you know, late morning, early afternoon is the early hours of work for me. And that's when I have all this energy, right? I'm in a good zone right now, which is why I don't want to work. It's so fun to do things, but it's also the best time to work. And so that's what we're going to do. All right. And I'll just give you a preview of what's to come. Okay. So there you go. Now you know what's on the agenda coming up after this. So, um, uh, good. I'm glad you come here to procrastinate. Yes. Oh, Keith Power. Keith Power is a very good friend of mine. Keith Power writes the music to Hawaii Five-0 and lots of other things. And he's a musical genius. He's incredible. Um, so I'm happy Keith is here. Keith is so upset and embarrassed that I'm talking about him now, but I have to. Anyway, I'm happy to hear that some people are procrastinating by being here. I assume most of you are procrastinating by being here because, you know, I think if you're going to be doing it, you might as well be doing it with me. Okay, so drawings. What we're going to start with, I got some of the fun ones out of the way yesterday. So we're going to be a little more, some of the drawings are more serious today. For anyone who missed yesterday, we did a bunch of fun ones. Let me just quickly show you. So we did this boss. See? That's a little small, I know. We did this boss. See? So he thinks it's okay to harass people. We did... We made a boxer comic out of a much longer thing. You see? We made a comic of the Pope talking to... a minister and telling him to go and fuck around with the Mongols. We did... Oh, we should, you know, we're going to do some more on this hypothesis today, this little machine, because it has to be better than this. It's an important part of the book, and I just didn't want it. Look, we did some moths. Check this out. You see that? So we did some moths. We did a Republican amoeba from the... This is the 1960s Republicans. You see that? And we did a Skittles comic and then a social media comic. So I think we did well yesterday. But now it's time to do a lot more. Okay, so I'm going to put that... Actually, I'm going to put that hypothesis one back up because I want to work on it more today. And the rest of these are going to go away. And we're going to start today, I've decided, with... That's true, Alicia is technically working. Okay. So we're going to start with a playground comic. A comic on the playground. And it sounds more fun than it is because I'm exemplifying something serious with this. So we're going to say we're going to go playground... Okay, so the context around this drawing is that I'm talking about Manning and Campbell. Bradley Manning? Someone, Manning and Campbell are two researchers who have did this research on different, these kind of broad cultures of how we deal with conflict. And the way you handle conflict is actually cultural. Even if it just doesn't feel that way sometimes. And so they talk about three kinds of cultures, honor culture, dignity culture, and more recent emergence of what they call victim mode culture. And so the difference is there's two kind of things you can think about is how you handle slights, like, yeah, basically how you handle, you know, someone insults you. So we're not talking about someone, you know, a physical conflict. So in honor culture, when someone insults you, you have, you know, you go fight them. So you're sensitive to slights and you react by direct conflict with the person. So fighting duels, you know, Hamilton style duels, that's honor culture. Dignity culture is... The sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Or it used to be names will never hurt me. And the idea there is have a thicker skin. When someone insults you, be the bigger person, right? Turn the other cheek, all of this. Go and, but it's nuanced in that it doesn't say let someone abuse you. It says if something gets to a certain level of harassment or physical danger, then you're supposed to do something about it. You don't confront them. You go to the authorities. So you're so honor culture, you're sensitive to slights and you go direct conflict. Dignity culture, you're not sensitive to slights, but when something gets to a certain level, you confront it by going to the authorities, the police, whoever. Now, these two for a long time were kind of the two cultures that a lot of, I think, researchers talked about. And the idea is that dignity culture tends to emerge in places where people trust the law, where they feel like the bigger structures are there. to protect them and people don't trust the law or they don't, you know, is often when honor culture emerges. People have to kind of reputation for matters, reputation, you know, for someone you can't be fucked with. This matters in an honor culture. Dignity culture. It's kind of like, okay, you can think I'm like weak. I don't care. You know, in another, you know, so a prison classic place where you're going to see a lot of honor culture in a prison. But there's a lot of honor culture around the world today and in the U.S. today. And then victimhood culture is interesting because it's new. This is their thesis for what's going on with a lot of today's American young people is victimhood culture, which is the same sensitivity to slights that you see in honor culture, but you don't direct conflict, you go to the authorities. So they go to the authorities like dignity culture, but they go much quicker. And you're supposed to go to the authorities like victimhood is a virtue almost. You know, victimhood is, you're almost, you know, you're looking for, just like honor culture, you're looking for any kind of perceived slight, you know, and you have to react. And same victimhood culture, any kind of perceived slight, but you don't fight them, you go to the authorities. That can be the parent, that can be the teacher, that can be the police, that can be whatever. And, you know, there's a lot of very interesting reading you can do about this. Coddling of the American Mind by John Hyde and Greg Lukianoff is an amazing book. Talks a little bit about kind of why this culture has emerged. It might have to do with cable TV in the 80s, making parents terrified of sending their kids out because of all these kidnapping shows. So then parents would... I'll start drawing in a second, but it is interesting that I think kids born between 1980 and 1995, I think the stat is they were allowed to go outside and play with just other kids at the age of six, or maybe it's eight. One of those. It's like the average age when they were first allowed to go out and play alone without, you know, with friends, without parents around. For kids born after 1995, the average age is 14. So you have, you grew up, instead of having to learn how to kind of manage conflict, you grew up with this authority always there. So something is, someone's really, oh, appeal to the authority, you know, who's, you know, who's the authority going to punish for the fight we just had? And so they believe that's just part of it. So there's a lot of, a lot of backstory, which I get into in the book. But today, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to draw, I'm gonna try to exemplify this with a playground interaction that shows the same playground kid gets insulted and if he's in this culture, this culture, or this culture, how would he respond? Alright, so I don't think there's much I need here. I just have to think about how involved you want to be here. So, let's pull open... Okay, so I want... Two kids. I need two kids is the main kind of structure here. Now, one thing I was explaining yesterday, so this canvas is my specific book canvas. And that this is, you see, oops, 1837 by 2775 pixels, 300 pixels per inch. This is the book page. that I'll be basically that I'm making so this is one page I'm very wary and these little lines by the way just like this is the actual piece of paper that is the page but you can't go all the way to the end because you know it's tucked into the book and you can't print on the margin so I have within these blue lines to work with and and one thing I'm always wary of is vertical space because think about it if you just took all the pages of a book out and you stack them, right? You know, you put them on a wall. It's a big column, is what a book is. And the longer the column, the more pages in the book, the thicker the book, the heavier the book, probably the more expensive the book, probably the longer it takes to print, right? So, you know, you don't want to add length if you don't have to. And so, horizontal space... Doesn't matter if I go a little bit, you know in the middle or I go all the way out to the margins It doesn't affect anything but if I go down that is pushing that that's adding to the column So I always am trying so right now I'm doing three panes of like three interactions and the question I'm having in my head is can I can I get them all three next to each other Without it getting crunched. It's very easy if this were the blog where vertical space is cheap. I wouldn't even consider it I would just do three vertical Things you know that that's the cleanest way to show it and you go this to this to this but We're not on the blog. So first let me just, you know, maybe as a reference I can pull off this thing I did yesterday. The social media comic. So this is a decent reference. Like two works fine, I think. It's like, you know. Yeah. You know, I realize it has to be vertical anyway because it's not just... Each one of these is two paints. Okay, so it's gonna be a little bit, it's gonna be, this is gonna be a bigger comic, but that's okay. It's, it's, it's, I think it's worth it. And so then, okay, so let's, I think it should be like two square, like, okay. So maybe like something like this. Okay, so 1650, so 825. And now, Okay, and I think we'll probably go something like that. Okay, so now, do we need a playground itself? What is this? That is not on my screen now. Okay. Do we need a playground itself? This is a question. I don't like doing backgrounds, as I've complained about before. Do I need a little swing set? I don't think so, right? What do I say in the... Let's just draw the picture. people first here. Okay, so and just like that, just like that, start off my, my tablet's not working. This is the problem, this is like between procrastination and then tech issues, it really is hard to get anything done. Okay, I'm gonna give this a second, this now. Hey, okay, working. Alright, so, new thing, and it's a little thin. Try to gauge thickness here. I think that this thickness will do. So these are kids. I can't have the heads be that different sizes. That's just too big a head anyway. If it was going to be a head that size, it should be thicker. So in other words, it should just be not, yeah, that's too big a head. I guess that works. I guess that works. I think now I think the other one's a little big. It's a little, this is a little big. Ha ha, seesaw. Yeah, well, I'll mess around. I can't- I'm not gonna have them on anything because I don't want to complicate the scene, but maybe something in the back. I think these heads are a little- I guess, okay, here's the thing. They're kids, and kids have big heads compared to their body. At least in my- at least in Wait But Why universe, they do. Um, oh, okay, that works. So that's the point, is that they're- it's not the- right, if this were the body, I feel like it would be a little, um, like, right. The point is that's a huge head, but that's the point, right? Okay. Okay, so this is the kid who's... This is the kid who's starting some shit. And this is the other kid. Maybe they should be a little closer together. So you see, right now they're on one layer, right? So if I move, they move together. And you can always just fix that later by just lasso tool, circling, whatever you want. Cut. paste, and now it's on a new layer. So now I've separated this and I can kind of move them independently. It's something easy. If the drawing gets too involved, it's really hard to separate layers. But with something simple like this, it's easy. Okay, so I think they're here. Now, back to this guy. Yeah, so schedule-wise, I'm glad you liked it, Rajveer. So I'm going to be doing this Today, all day, and tomorrow. And tomorrow I'm going to try to start earlier. Today was a little on the late side because, you know, I'm going to try to start like no later than one tomorrow, ideally even a little earlier. Because I'm trying to, this is huge. These are like real actual big work days for me. Like I'm trying to knock out the meat of the rest of the drawings for this book. So I'll have, you know, maybe a couple of days left to do after this. And some of those things. I was talking to Alicia about this morning is, you know, some of the things you actually want to wait on the drawings even till the very last second because I want to give it another read because a lot of what I'm holding off on are these recap charts. So if you read the story of us, chapter seven, which was the thinking ladder, has this huge recap chart at the end. Let's just pull that up quickly. Thinking ladder. So if you check this out here. Yeah. So I'm not putting this in the book. That would be insane. Also, the book is just much more synthesized and simplified. So for example, the thinking ladder concept, this whole chapter, not just made the book, but it ends up, you know, because a lot of this stuff didn't make the book. This made the book and it is really important part of the book. This ladder is a big deal in the book. But I cut out like a lot of these things are not, you know, not all of these things made it because there's just a lot of, you know, there's too many concepts. for one blog post, but when you're having each chapter of the book, you can't have that many new concepts in every chapter. So the big question is, when is it good to do a recap charts in the book versus just like a glossary at the end of the book? And you don't want to do too many recaps because it takes up, again, it takes up valuable vertical space. It also... You don't want to overkill. You don't want to patronize the reader and have to recap everything you said. On the other hand, too few recap charts, it's a missed opportunity to have everyone get really fresh on the same page. So that's the kind of question that I think we're going to be answering probably at the very last second is recap charts. All right. All right. Back to our little friends here. So let's do this. So back up here. I'm gonna put his arms on a separate layer because you just never know. Sometimes I'm like, I might want to change his arms. It's so much nicer to just be able to go like this and redo them than have to like erase right next to the thing and try not to go over too much, you know? So, okay. So that's the base thing going on. Okay, I'm thinking about something because basically here's what's going to be happening. Is kid number one is going to be... What do I have him saying here? He's going to be saying something like, you're stupid. just basic dumb kid thing right so you're stupid now in honor culture they're gonna get and they're gonna two of them are gonna be fighting physically fighting in the next pain in dignity culture kid on the right is gonna turn around and say okay buddy as he's walking away and in victimhood culture the kid on the right is gonna tell the teacher he's gonna know suddenly there's gonna be a teacher there and he's gonna be like he called me stupid right simple But I'm thinking that it's a little overkill to have the same exact left pane in each one, which is just him saying you're stupid. Like, and I wonder if there's a better way to do it. And what I'm thinking is that there, he says you're stupid. And then I can, it can like snake down to three options. Boom, boom, boom. And I think it's easy. It's better to like just compare, right? The three things that are different. So I'm going to actually try that. So we're going to start with, okay, this is going to change a little bit. My boxes are no good anymore. Groups, you can just group these. Command-G. This is Pixelmator, by the way, that software. I don't know if it's the best software to use for this kind of thing, but I am used to it. And that's the thing that I got recommended by a friend in like 20... 2009. I think when I first drew on my old blog for the first time. And so I've just gotten used to it. It is, it is a good program. I don't, I don't really have complaints. It crashes sometimes. It's kind of crashy. Um, okay. So he's just going to say, um, so for example, so here now I'm going to want to have this guy, exactly his head and stuff, um, later in other things. So I don't want to delete. If I was just doing one, if this was just a one pain thing, I would just go like this. And I would delete his mouth and draw a mouth in for what he's saying, right? But now, what if I want to have him not speaking later in the comic? Now I'm fucked. I have to somehow redraw this and it's gonna look weird. So what I would do is instead I would just duplicate this and turn him off. Now I have like a copy now of each of them. So now I don't have to worry about like messing them up because I have a copy. Although now his arms are separate from him. Let's just, yeah. I'll deal with that later. Okay, so he's not gonna have arms. I have to duplicate the arms too. Okay, that sucked. All right, backward baseball cap on the bullied kid isn't a bad idea. It's not a bad idea. It makes him a little older. Now he's kind of like a mean high schooler. I was kind of picturing like a... elementary school, but let's just see how it pans out. Okay, so, alright, so now I'm gonna go over here to this guy. I'm gonna need to delete. No! Little dogs bark a lot. Shitty. Alright. So is he like, okay, so a few options here. You can have him like, you can have him like, you know, you know, you know, like, that's like meaner than I'm going for here. Ah, do it. Maybe I do want him to be kind of mean. It's so funny how this looks zero percent mean. That's too big an eye. That's the right size. And then I can make him incredibly mean so quickly. That's it. Now he's a mean kid. Um, all right. And so, yeah, so the backwards hat is, is, it would have to be like, you know, like he's kind of something. I don't know. I don't think that's quite what I'm going for. He's just kind of I don't know. I mean I could make them really young and do like a pinwheel, you know like one of these things It's like You know on their heads, but not now what are we doing here? What's why are we doing that right? Okay, let's keep it simple. This is a mantra I kept saying yesterday that I need to tell myself all the time which is as good enough Because as a perfectionist Drawings is a nightmare if you don't have them if you I will sit there I could sit here right now and spend two hours messing around with different ways for this little kid to look. And yeah, it would probably be better in the end. It's not that it would, you know, it would be a little bit something, it would be something about it would be a little bit better, a little cleaner, a little more perfect at the end. And it's a waste of time. It's just no one really cares. People reading the book are reading it. They're not examining everything. You're going to read it. They're going to look, they're going to get the picture and they're going to keep reading it. Right. And so let's not go over the top here. Otherwise you just get indecisiveness. Indecisiveness is a product of perfectionism. I think. I think when you're not being perfectionist, you're like, okay, good enough. Let's just choose this, right? It's when you are so obsessed with trying to have everything perfect, you can't decide because you don't know what the perfect decision is. And I can get very indecisive with writing and drawings if I'm not telling myself regularly that it's fine. It's good enough. All right. So let's go over to this guy. And he's just here and he's neutral. No smiling, no frowning yet because he's just hearing it for the first time. Does he have a wiggle like that? Is he... No. No. No, I think he's got to be neutral because he doesn't know what's coming out of that kid's mouth yet. That works. Eyes too small. We have our base situation. Now, I'm going to... So here's what I was thinking. So let's just write... Let's just... Finish the scene here. That's what the kid says, right? You're stupid. Do you want him to say something else? Propeller head? I don't know about propeller head. Because then you know why? Because then they have them fighting. Where is the hat falling off? I don't know. It just seems like a lot of extra work. All right. Oh. I already showed the dogs. I'm going to show the dogs again later. But. Dogs only get shown a few times. So if anyone has something else they want him to say instead of you're stupid, feel free to throw out suggestions. But otherwise, I'm going to just go with you're stupid and let's make it a little bigger because in the book it's going to be, you don't have to think about sizes here. This is the kind of thing that Alicia gets stuck with. In addition to all the other things she has to do, she's going to end up having to go and standardize the sizes of all the thoughts. So I'm trying to not make her life worse by not thinking about it at all now. Okay, so he's here. He says, you're stupid. And so we go like this. And he says, Mr. Poopypants. I don't know about that. I also already, here's the funny thing is I already have the term poopy pants in this book as like a heading. Suspense. You'll have to buy the book to find out. But it's already used, poopy pants. Can't use it twice in the book. All right, you're stupid now. So what I was thinking is either it goes from here. Okay, so look, so let's just group. Now I can take all this and I can group this scene together. And now I can just move it around as one object. It doesn't have to worry about highlighting every single thing. So I could do one of three things. I could have this here and I could have like, this is what he says. And then, and then it goes like, you know, as the second pane, right? Or, uh, or I could take that and, you know, I could do it like this. I'm kind of feeling the bottom one. Um, yeah, I'm feeling the bottom one. Okay, so we're gonna do it like this. So let's bring our rectangles. Let's bring some rectangles back. So we have this guy here. Let's get rid of this now. Um, and let's get some rectangles going. All right. Squares. So 1650. So what's a third of that? It's 550. So this should be 550. So here we're going to have our three cultures. Okay. So now let's group these rectangles together. So I don't have to worry about them. And center these guys. So now, now, I think I'm going to write, decide if it's in the box or out of the box. But okay, let's just say honor. I'm just gonna check one thing out for sound here. Oh, yeah. Yep, I've been talking into my headphones, not into my actual good mic. Thank you, Alicia. All right, so let's just see here. Yeah, okay, so now I think that's better, right? Let me know if the... Yeah, you can watch the stream from yesterday. We'll, um, um, we'll, uh, Alicia will paste the stream from yesterday that linked to it in here. Um, it's long. I'm not sure, you know, we just, we're not sure exactly, like, what we want to do with streams, whether we want to always have them saved in the channel or just kind of archive, but we'll, anyone who wants it can have it. Um, yeah, you can go to Twitter. Um, my, I think a couple tweets ago, you'll see a link to it, but we can also just send over links to all of them at the end. Um, all right. First one felt like three thoughts of the second guy. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so anyway. Alright, so victimhood culture. See, I hate when this happens. Now, this is too big. So now, do I have to make all of the thoughts smaller to accommodate the length of this? Or can I just make this one smaller? That looks weird, right? Or do I stack this, right? This is the kind of stupid little decisions. Center. Like, that looks weird, right? If it's just one of them like that. If I go... 44 instead of 50 here. So now I guess I could do it like that, but now that looks kind of weird. So now I'm gonna make them all 44. Okay. All right. That's fine. Make it nice and big. All right. So, okay. Now the question is we want them, the last question here is we want them in the boxes. I think we want them in the boxes. All right. I'm gonna try them in here and we'll see if I like them. Then there's always the color decisions. You know, do you want to make these different color? I think usually I would. It would just be like green, blue, red, right? But it's color is loaded in this book. Orange means low rung in this book. And I'm not, I'm trying to be neutral whenever I can. Like I particularly, I don't happen to think victimhood culture is good, but I don't want to like brand it as low rung, right? The point with the latter is that here's how I use the latter. I want you to decide what you think is low rung and high rung. I'm not gonna like be like this is low rung and this is high rung. I'm just saying this is a ladder we can use. And I do decide some things I think are low rung, but I try to qualify it as this is just how it looks to me. Victimhood culture, I don't know enough to like assign it as bad. Maybe there's some parts of victimhood culture that are good. I don't know. I prefer dignity culture, but I also grew up in dignity culture. So, you know, I know I'm gonna have some bias there. I do think victimhood culture is bad just because I've actually read enough research about how it makes people very makes people unhappy makes people see everything with a negative lens it makes people judge others uncharitably assume the worst about people's intentions and it cuts a source of anxiety and depression and all of that so I think it's bad but I don't want to label it as low-rung for lots of reasons and I think if you read the book you would understand so I don't want to be orange or anything like that but I like to have some color in my comics right so let's just give this something here um uh okay i'm down with this almost some green give it a little life okay so now um all right now see i'm procrastinating because this is hard now i've done all the easy parts well it's really honor culture one that's hard because fighting is hard um um okay let's just bring these dudes back into this let's do that let's Let's do the hard one first. Now, I want to move these down a little bit. Oh, I fucked up, I think. Wait, hold on. Because I'm going to want a teacher in the third one who has to be taller. Right? All right. Although then, yeah, just down a little. Because otherwise, you have this blank space above the other two. Just because this third one needs some height. I'm just going to try it like this. Okay. All right. So let's have these dudes fight now. So, um, now let's see his arms are separate. But that's why he's not gonna have these arms. This is why this is actually good. He's not gonna have the arms here. Um, alright, so let's facial expressions. Now, you see, remember I actually kept a copy of these guys because I want his face closed again here. Uh, but where did I put it now? Oh, it's down here. Um, it's this, this. I'm actually being kind of inefficient and I'm not really, uh, this isn't a great showcase for efficiency, but because he's not going to keep, this guy's not talking anymore, right? So I shouldn't have brought this guy down. I should have switched this before I did this. Um, now I have to go and delete the guy in those three cases. Okay. Now, and I should have made this guy's facial expression on a separate thing, whatever. All right. So let's just get in here. Um, I'm gonna just redo bodies entirely here. I'm gonna have them on the ground. Here we go. They're gonna be lying down. Okay. So, get the basic thing going on here. Now, this guy's pissed. That's weird looking. That is weird looking. That is not okay. What did I do here? Okay, hold on. He's so like... There we go. That's what I'm going for. Okay. Yeah, he's gonna be like Okay kick kick here All right. All right. And now he's still smiling. Is he like a still shit eating like like yeah, I gotta rise. No, I think he's pissed now Something looks very odd about that, but that's gonna have to be good enough. All right, and now He's furious because he lives in honor culture I think maybe this warrants something more than just closed mouths. I think we might have to go for like, you know. And now this dude looks too upset. I think I'm going to have to do the same thing over here. Got some line here that's part of something else. There we go. All right. I don't want this other kid to look like a victim. Like he knew what was coming, you know. He's in an honor culture. He knew. So like, it's weird if he's like too shocked or anything. Right? Maybe he's like shitty. No, he's not. No one's smiling when they're getting their ass kicked, right? Okay, so they're just yelling. This is not like great, but now they're both just kind of like... He's not like yelling out. He's not like, oh my god, help. Okay, wait. Maybe I have an idea. Let's go all the way back. Because he's getting like punched in the face. And I make his eyebrow meaner so he doesn't look like he's like a victim. I don't love it. I do not love it. I do not love it. I think it's weird that one of their mouths is open, not the others. Okay, wait. We're gonna... I'm gonna go back here. Let's try this again. I think he needs to be doing also mouth open. Something like that, I feel like, is right, right? Yeah. Okay, this is gonna do. It's not my finest work, but it's gonna do. By the way, I wanna... While we're here... Where is it? What chapter is it in? Um, or maybe it's in chapter two? I think it's in chapter three. Two or three. Um, no, it's in chapter two. Yeah, it's in chapter two. Okay, so this. So first of all, a couple notes. One, I made the head circles way too thick. You see why I worry about head circles? Because you can actually see the problem here. Um, is that, uh, Yeah, it just looks weird. The head circles too. Anyway, but I said good enough and moved on and it didn't matter, right? So this is another fight I had to draw and I think I did a better job here. But it's also like less high res. It's like because the smaller head circles I can get away with some shit. But look, he's punching in the balls while he's strangling him, which is funny. Then mid ball punch they turn around. I'm just very, I'm very pleased with my work here. Okay, and so the point here is like this proverb. Me against my brothers, my brothers and me against cousins, my cousins, brothers and me against strangers. It's like it's a Bedouin proverb that captures the essence of how tribalism works. Like as soon as there's a bigger enemy, common enemy, everyone bands together. When that common enemy leaves, it's infighting. So you see that with countries that fight against each other. But if there's a war, they suddenly they're friends, right? You know, they see this all the time in a million different ways with politics. So anyway. So the two brothers are fighting, right, as usual. And now the cousins come around and they say some shit. And they're like, oh yeah, fuck that. And so now the cousins and the brothers now see that now this is like a unit suddenly. They're suddenly on a team. So he's getting punched in the eye. He's getting spanked. And meanwhile, some strangers come around. And they're like, wow, I heard these people are uncivilized, but geez. Mid-jump, you know, everyone's... stops mid spank and now they fight against the strangers. He's stomping his head. He actually kicks his head off. You see? And so we've got a... He's now dribbling his head like a soccer ball. This guy has just conquered these two. This guy has a bag around the other head and he's batting it. Now they're leaving and he has his head. So now they're like, wow, that was a good one. Love you guys. But you see their little union. Suddenly there's no common enemy and now they're fighting again. So that's the idea. Anyway. I just wanted to bring that up because that was a time when I did a fighting thing I liked a lot more. I think I need some lines here, some more chaos. Because this just, it looks a little like, it gets done what I needed, but, um, um, no one's getting a bone. That's what happens. You bark at each other and no one gets a bone now. Okay, um, all right, so there's just a little more chaos here. Um, it's like they're yelling, right? Just those first three lines does the trick, right? I feel like, you know, it should be like, it should be like, you know, peanuts. You know, they get the whole, the peanuts fight and there's a whole like cloud of smoke, but I don't want to get into it. I could try. Okay, let's just real quick experiment. I have to even remember where the hell these brushes are. Is it paint brushes? Is it spray? I need like smoke sponge brush. Might just be is it water brush. I don't want that Like it could be something like scatter brush Goliath brush. Can you just say smoke like maybe I should search for smoke No, of course they have Goliath brush whatever that means But they don't have just the word smoke for something that obviously it looks like smoke Okay, so now if I went like this and I made some what does it look like black? Yeah gray That's not working. This is not going to happen. You know what I'm talking about, right? Like the peanuts in a fight. But now they're just like, no, this is awful. Simple. Leave it alone. Okay. Dignity culture. Moving on. Oh, there's a dot here. And I do think there should be some more commotion right where there's like kicking going on. Oh no, I have this all messed up here. Okay. Now go back to where you were. So I think there should be a little more something. Oh, maybe like one of these guys. And like another one over here. I feel like that now is some action, right? I'm feeling okay now. I mean, there's really even more because he's getting punched in the face as well. I was saying yesterday that I'm the anti-Bob Ross. Bob Ross, you're watching, and you're like, man, how could someone do a painting so good? in such a short amount of time. Like, if you just saw that in a gallery of Bob Ross, you'd be like, oh, that's like a landscape that took someone like a year, right? But it'd take them 30 minutes. And I'm the opposite, where you're like, how could something so bad, so simple, take someone so long? I'm the anti-Bob Ross. All right. Dignity culture, now everything should be easier at this point. So this guy has a mean face on. He's just kind of like in... dick mode or or is he kind of like i feel like we should because i'm gonna i'm making trying to make dignity culture look good because i am biased towards it um i'm gonna make him kind of like oh shit like you like he got him and the second one is where like oh you really got him um because now you know yeah see this guy's just like left dumbfounded because the other guy's being the bigger man i do think that we should move this guy this is on the wrong layer And this guy is going to be flipped. That did not work at all. Let's just flip him. Okay, his arms. Flip those. Bring them over here. Now the whole thing needs to be rotated. Because he's weirdly... Now, okay, let's go over here. And let's... He needs to be walking. Maybe I'll get rid of these arms and do new arms. Is that how someone walks? Looks like he's hiking. It's more like that. This way. And now the question is, is he looking this way? Being like, or is he looking back? I think he's not even giving him the, he's not even giving him the respect to look at him. He's just dismissing this guy's in dickish ways. Is he smiling? Now I don't think he's smiling. Let's see. We'll come back to that in a second. Maybe he is a little bit smiling. Because otherwise it looks like he's upset. Yes, one second. Alright. So, I think he's like, I think he's like, this is tough. Maybe, now he looks a little scared. Maybe he has turned this way. Change the shape of his head here a little bit. Okay, I think turning it towards him will capture what I'm going for a little more. While walking away. Okay. Not loving this. Not loving what's happening here. A sigh is not a bad choice. Um, you might be right about the sigh. I think that's a good suggestion. Eye rolls are really hard. Um, let me see if I can do one. No. I don't think I have the skills to do a legit looking eye roll without him looking like... No. No. No. Oh. Huh? Did I get it there a little bit? Okay, I don't like how this is going. I'm going to try this first idea again. I'm just going to have him smiling a little more. No? Too smug? Okay, maybe like that. Okay, now I don't want this text. I want this text. Okay, I do want to... Move all of these down and now it's gonna be good enough for now Now here Think this this kid's face of life when he's getting told on may just have this may be the same exact thing because it's it's Now let's make a teacher or a parent. So now we're gonna have this parent is here Actually, I think it's flipped and the hand I'm gonna have a no no hand actually no hand holding I think he's yeah this is a neutral this is a neutral parent at this moment so he's just getting told something so he's not looking at the kid yet there's no anger all right all right all right this is dragging on I know we're gonna be done soon move on to the next thing all right so Victim might be crying here. The problem is I'm talking about this not in the context of kids, but in the context of grownups. And I don't want to be... I'm trying not to, like, alienate anyone, you know, by, like, full mockery. I'm not trying to mock anyone in this book, if I can, because it's already enough divisive topics in this book that I think trying to be neutral on my side is ideal. Okay, that works. Those arms that I worked so hard to separate finally coming in handy here. Okay, now We need to move everyone to the left because See I didn't do this efficiently after all my talk about layers and stuff because I right now have to figure out where all the things are for this If you're doing something involved like this this one that you actually have a lot of different things you really should be very Very Kind of like conscientious about where your layer system and just stick to your system and organize and I if you're doing something small you can get away with just kind of fuck all and just having a bunch of layers and not really caring where they are but This this probably is on the borderline this one Maybe just this guy I guess there's a manner Next to him This looks a little big this font for some reason maybe in the scheme of things. It's not so big I think it's that it looks like it's spacing as two. Maybe it's trying to get smaller. All right, exclamation point or not to exclamation point. Um, no. Hmm. That's like a little bit of a hint of the crying thing that was suggested. Um, but so I feel like one is like, he called me stupid, right? Versus like, he called me stupid, right? Like, I feel like it is kind of the first one. It's just being like, it's just like the period suggests that it's like routine. Just being like, Mom, he called me stupid, right? Versus like it's some shock. It's like this happens all the time, right? But the problem is, I think the point of victimhood culture is supposed to be very overreact to slights. Yeah, okay. I vote exclamation point. And now let's give him a little line. All right. All right. Definitely no background. No... seesaw, no swimsuit, right? We don't need any kind of further complications here. I do think that everything should move down a touch. There's no reason this bottom, this vertical space at the bottom... So let's just... Alright. Does this get a point across? I don't know about this dude's head and this Dignity Culture guy's face and head look real stupid to me. But I think it gets the idea across, right? He's being a grown-up. But he's not being like... He's not scared. And he's not being nice. It's not like he has to be nice about it. You know, Psy to me is a little like, oh, you're a little bit of a pushover. Like, you're kind of being like, ugh, stop. You know, as opposed to being like, just totally like, you suck for being such a baby. You know, so I don't know. Okay, feeling good. Moving on. No exclamation. Damn it. Exclamation, yes. Yeah, exclamation. Okay, two. Okay, so three for four. But I feel you, Tanmay. I was also on the fence. But I think part of what I want to show here is, like, the second guy is being mature in a way that the third guy is being immature. I am proud of this face. I like the third guy's face. See, sometimes I just, like, the third guy's face to me is exactly what I wanted. I think it's funny. I think it captures the exact thing, while the second guy's face just looks odd to me. It gets across what I want, but it doesn't look like a good cartoon face. And that's like half of my things. I'm just like, I accept that it's just okay. All right, I'm gonna move on now. The only question is, should this guy's face be different in the second and third thing? I don't think so. Oh, evolve social media platform. Use AI companions to aid the higher mind. All power to you. It really seems like a hard thing to do, but it is an amazing goal, and I would be very grateful, and so would a lot of people, if you can pull it off. Here's your shout-out, Alan. Did I miss anything, or you just want a general shout-out? Smile and blink if you love your fans. Okay. Focus on Tim. F.A.Q. Alan, I give you a shout-out, okay? Okay, cool. But I do like... The feedback I'm getting as I go is super interesting and useful. I wish I always had it. Usually just me alone trying to figure out if I'm fucking it up or not. Alright, so let's put this one in the books. And that'll take up half a page, right? See this? It takes up 40% of a page. Which is fine, because this is a... I could get rid of the top part, right? And save a full paragraph. But I think this is... And I could just say, so imagine a kid says you're stupid. But that doesn't work, right? You need that first thing. So this is the time I'm fine for the vertical space. It seems fairly economical. Let's go back to where you were and save. Not there. Oh, there. Okay. All right. And now I'm going to move on. To are we gonna do this now? No, not yet. This is... We could work on this tiny bit. I feel like we should do something a little more interesting and come back to this a little later. It's super boring. The redrawing this continued hypothesis. But I want it to be like intricate, you know? What would I even do here? Maybe I'd do like a big cylinder coming out of this side that I can then attach stuff to. Right? Okay, we'll come back to this. Next. I want to leave this up for now. Alright. Okay, so next we're going to do a big one here. And then we're going to do one and then we're going to take a break and procrastinate. So we have one more legit one here that we're going to do right now. Should we take a tiny procrastination break? Let's take a tiny. Look, we're not going to go back to the crossword because that'll suck us in for a while. We're gonna just do a tiny thing. We're gonna do global. Okay? Global is I we did global yesterday and It is a game that came out during the world world craze and it's just its own thing where you say the closer the country to the Every day one country is the country of the day, right? And they and and you have to guess which one it is and You when you type in a country it shows you by color how close you are. Okay, so let's restart with here. Always start with Eastern Hemisphere because it's just far more likely to be close. I think a good one like on the edge is good so you have a sense of, you know, you kind of map out your boundaries. So let's go with South Korea. Sorry, North Korea. Okay, not very close. Let's do Spain, get a feel for what's going on. Okay, also not that close. So now this is making me think that it's either all the way over in the Western Hemisphere or it's in Africa Let's try South Africa Nope, okay. I think we have a Western Hemisphere unless it's like... Uhhh... Mmm... Shit, this is a hard one. So it's a little bit closer to South Korea than it is to South Africa and it's but it's closer to Spain than either but just by a little Which makes me think it's either like right in here, like it might be Iran, or it could be on the Western Hemisphere and just... I'm gonna try it wrong. Oh, okay. That was a good guess by me. Now, that's so dark that it means it's probably bordering Iran. And now the question is on which side? So we've got... If it were on the east side, I think it would be pretty much equidistant from South Korea and Spain. And it's not, right? But it's also not like Turkey. That would be way too close. Spain would be a, I think, a darker color. So, I think we should try, like, Georgia or something. Um, nope. Farther away. Okay. That was a bad guess. I'll try, I'll try Pakistan. Nope. God damn it. I don't think it's below, because South Africa is really not close to it. So, I guess we're in Afghanistan, but it's not. No, it's not. Okay, so it's above this. Now, what is above here exactly? It is... We have Kazakhstan. I think we have Turkmenistan here. Let's try Turkmenistan. I'm a genius. That was really good. Okay. Turkmenistan. Okay. I'd like to go there, by the way. That's country on my list. I went to North Korea, as some of you know. And I went there with a tour group. A British, a UK-based tour group. And they also do tours. to other places including Turkmenistan which I don't think is a place you can just go as a tourist I think it's like Bhutan certain countries I think you really have to go with a group not because it's dangerous but I think it's just the government's rules but I'm not sure that could be outdated information but I'm dying to go to Turkmenistan I did go to other stands I went to Kazakhstan Kurds Kurdistan I don't say it right Kyrgyzstan that's what it is Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan I went to all of those and Western China In 2007 by myself for like three weeks and I didn't basically I found no one who spoke English for three straight weeks. It was fascinating I was just in my own head for three weeks no one to talk to and I went out to like a plane a Big open plane called the Jailu in in Kyrgyzstan up next to Lake Sankul, this little alpine lake and they had these yurts and people were living in yurts and I went and stayed with one of them for a few days and went out to the mountain with the dad during the day with his sheep. It was one of those things where I was like, oh, we're on this grassy plane. I was like, oh, the hill right over there, like a five minute walk away. And it was like an hour walk away, but it was like deceptive, you know, distances. And they gave me their... They gave me their sacred drink, their traditional drink, kymus, kymus, which is fermented mare's milk. But this wasn't like the kind you buy, you know, you can buy it in a store in this country and it's like only a little fermented. This was shit that's just been milk that's been sitting out in the sun for a long time. Thick. And I took sips of it and I started breaking out in the hives, felt unbelievably nauseous. And I was like, I'm going to die here on the Jailu. And I haven't told anyone where I am in at least a week. People think I'm in Western China still. I'm going to die. They're going to be like, I guess that dude died. They're going to like roll me into the lake and that'll be the end. And I'll be a missing person forever. And there'll be like a documentary, like the case of this missing American who went missing. What happened to him? He actually drank fermented mayor's milk and died. But I didn't die. It was fine. But it was a great time. I recommend that. trip to anyone and all of those places are fascinating. The cities are like you know Soviet-esque cities like you know it's fascinating but it's like when you get out into the countryside is when you're like okay like the the yurts on Lake Sangkul were like I might as well have been the 11th the year 1100. There was no electricity no technology at all. It was just nomadic shepherds and that's still happening in the world it was cool. So there are some stories Do I remember I recently retweeted your tweet about geographies if I don't remember but I'm sure I loved it if I retweeted it Let's continue along here Okay, so that was a little procrastination you see I recommend playing global every day. It's a lot of fun and you get to kind of test your geography skills You don't can't look up the real map you have to kind of fit try to guess and remember what is it with where each country is All right, for the next drive, we're going to do, okay, we're going to do Playground Interaction, done. It's always satisfying to delete something from the list. Okay, should we get to a big one? I think we should. Pull this out, I don't know, a separate document. We're going to do, okay, so we're going to get into a big thing that is something that needs to be done at some point. So you might remember our ladder. Let's just pull that up. Okay. So here's our ladder, our thinking ladder. The full deal here. All right, here's our thinking ladder. Thinking like a scientist, thinking like a sports fan, thinking like an attorney, thinking like a zealot, right? And that's kind of four places on this vertical spectrum. of how you think. And this applies to politics and a lot of other religion, a lot of things, but in the book I apply it mostly to politics. But it's also just something in general. It's like how you think, you know, how much confirmation bias is in your thinking, how flexible are you, how humble are you, how open are you to changing your mind, how deep down are you motivated by getting to the truth versus proving that you are right and confirming what you already believe to be right. Which I think stems from how much you're identifying with your ideas, which is why I have this primitive mind at the bottom and your higher mind at the top. Because I think that the primitive mind, the influence of the primitive mind is where confirmation bias comes from. Because the primitive mind wants you to just feel confident and identifies with your sacred beliefs and treats them like a part of your body. It's actual science that, you know, has kind of shown that our sacred beliefs, when they're challenged, we have fight or flight. responses like it's the same part of our brain lights up that when we were physical danger that's when your primitive mind is doing the thinking you're gonna get into that zone which means you're gonna be very difficult to argue with you're not gonna want to change your mind you're gonna be get pretty tribal you're gonna start to hate people who disagree with you and love the people who agree with you and the higher mind is just rational just wants to do what makes sense and so it doesn't do any of this the higher mind just wants to find the truth and thinks of an idea is just like the latest first draft latest draft And when someone challenges it, they're like, oh, let's go. Either my idea will stand up to it, which will be great. That'll confirm that it's, you know, that'll help strengthen my conviction in it. Or it'll get broken by this challenger and then I'll learn something, right? But what I'm doing here is, this is in a later chapter in the book. It's in chapter six, I believe. Seven total. And it's where I'm trying to show a second thing. Which is, so the ladder is internal. This is how you fit in your head. But there's also how you, when we get down to the low rungs, there's also kind of how you treat others as a, it's how you, It's whether you're enforcing your speech rules on people around you or just minding your own business and being a zealot and letting everyone else do what they want. Or you're actually kind of enforcing, you're actually kind of making it stressful for anyone to disagree around you. You're going to throw a fit and you're going to, what I'm calling that a social bully. And what the social bully does is they kind of end up creating an echo chamber around themselves and people who... violated they kick out of their life and so if you want to be friends with me you better not disagree with you better have you better not you know have the wrong opinions on politics or on religion or on whatever so that's a social bully and the social bullies are shitty it's not great right if you're friends with a social bill you know bullied like they don't allow you to have much Fun intellectually and no one's gonna grow that much intellectually around them because everyone's gonna be scared to Defy them and they're just being a bully Someone who's super offended by an opinion they don't like is being a bully is what they're actually it's a way of exerting It's coercive But then there's something that you can go even further. So it's we're gonna draw like an authoritarian axis and You can go even further to something else, which is a big part of the book. So I want to draw this now Yeah, okay, so we're gonna pull open. What do we want to do here? This is that this do some thinking for a second here about Right, right, right, right. Okay, there's three three drawings that are gonna be associated with this idea So first we're just gonna make an authoritarian axis And I don't think I'm going to make it colorful like this because I use these two axes a lot, how you think, what you think. And they have very specific colors that the reader gets used to throughout the book. And I don't want to confuse things with more color. So I'm just going to make the authoritarian axis just a simple arrow, I think. All right. So let's open up another thing, which is going to be authoritarian axis. Okay. Now I'm going to... Do I want to make the arrow... Do I want to make the arrow thick enough? Do I mirror my Cintiq or XDR? This is the Cintiq and this is what I draw on. Or are you just using the Cintiq for PS and have something else in the main display? No, so what you're seeing... You're seeing my exact big display. Everything like... The agenda is also at the far right of my big display. So you're seeing my exact big display and then I have a laptop over here with a bunch of other shit on it. And so you're seeing that and then you're seeing my Cintiq below, if that makes sense. More dog time, please. Hello, Gus Gus. He does need a haircut. He's very friendly. He's very, very loving. Our other dog is not very nice. She's... cold and you have to earn her affection and she does not give it off very often and he is just super super sweet and nice um and it's a nice little contrast um okay so the question is do i want to just say more authoritarian and have this arrow or actually say it inside of the thicker arrow or actually write it inside then i let's just see how that looks it gives it a little more flair maybe um a huge arrow Let's see. So I think orange to here, we're going to use a color that has meaning to us, which is orange. Okay, so gradient. You don't want that. All right. And so we're going to start with normal orange, and we're going to get even darker orange, which I think already is. Okay. And now I'm going to put some text here. More authoritarian. So the point is, the reason I'm doing this is it's a really important distinction. That authoritarianism is not part of the vertical ladder, because the vertical ladder is just how you think. This horizontal axis is going to be how you treat others, and how much you think affects others. You know, because you can be a zealot in your head, but not bother anyone else, in which case, you're not causing anyone harm. I mean, you're not a great thinker yourself. But I have no problem with you. If you're a zealot that minds their own business and no one will ever change your mind, but like, you don't bully anyone, then I don't have a problem with you. But bullies suck. And bullies make everything worse for everybody. And part of the reason bullies get away with bullying is that, because no one likes, everyone knows that bullies suck, right? No one wants to be thought of as a bully. Is that the bullies... People get away with bullying, especially when they don't see themselves as bullies and other people don't see what they're doing as bullying, but it is. But what it seems like is they're just being righteous or something, right? Because no one wants to think like, I'm a bully. I don't think, I mean, maybe a mafia person, something really tough. notably tough person who prior CEO who likes being kind of a bully but mostly most bullies don't like think of themselves as bullies and and that's what I'm trying to do in this book a little bit is call that out and be like FYI this is bullying and let's let's be aware of that and then then we can push back against it then it should make I want it to make I want it to make people angry when they're being bullied so that they don't allow it to happen I don't like how this is looking I don't know And the definition of bullying is just really simple. Like, you're just coercing. You're using, you know, some kind of power you have. Social power or, you know, whatever it is. You're using some kind of power you have to coerce others. As opposed to playing the, you know, playing the game by the rules is you have to persuade others, right? You have to be likable. You have to be, you know, articulate. You have to know what you're talking about. And if you're using bullying to shut down ideas you don't like, you know, by offense or whatever, saying it's offensive or whatever, or like, or you're an awful person or you're unpatriotic if you say that, you know, then what you're doing is you're cheating. You know, you can't win. It's like, you know, you're not, you know, you're not letting anyone box, you know, your ideas in the boxing ring. You're saying no boxing allowed, not against my ideas. And that's, that's because. Usually I think deep down because you don't you know it's it's not gonna go that well for you to have to actually box in the ring Sometimes there's a lot of reasons that this happens sometimes. It's totally you know subconscious, but all right So let's group these two together and Okay, so we're gonna put it here in the middle for now I don't think these needs to be crazy long be a little longer now we're gonna put Three people on top of this. These are all low-rung thinkers. So this is the point is to compare apples to apples and say forget high and low rungs for a second. Here's the way three different low-rung thinkers can behave. And I think this is a time for our little non... I don't think we need faces and I don't think that's a distraction. We just want to be simple here and use our simple guy. Oh, this for anyone who's unacquainted is my crazy land where I copy and paste things that I use a lot. If I'm using something again and again, I'll just put it here so I can retrieve it easily. But the result is that this is my place of craziness. Yeah. All right. So... Okay, so we have someone who's not authoritarian. We have someone who's kind of authoritarian. And we have someone who's really authoritarian. So here's what's happening. Oh, wait a second. I might have one issue here. Maybe I can solve it. I want to make these guys a little bigger because I had another idea. Is that too low res? Might be a little low res now. I think I just got to draw these, unfortunately. Because I haven't... I had... Yeah, I just want to draw them. Alright. Yeah, this is the Wayfoot Y font. I drew it because I was using... I was using like Helvetica or Calibri or Ariel or one of these in... with stick figures just looks a little like weird but comic sans is so hideous so i drew i was like i want something that looks handwritten but it's not comic sans so i made this um you can see the full font on twitter i found it yesterday i have to search um wait but why font twitter and it should come up on google um okay so i want three guys here thank you luis happy to hear that How long till we're procrastinating again? I would say like probably a half hour and then we'll do like a good solid procrastination session. So the reason I wanted a face is because I want to do with the second and the third guy. I don't care about this guy's face. I could have just had a tiny stick figure with no face but so he's just kind of like this thing right now he here's what we're gonna do here I guess they all can have the same kind of arms. So similar. Now, here's something we're gonna do. Who remembers King Mustache? I'll be impressed, but King Mustache made an appearance in Chapter 5 of the story of us. And, oh, actually, I can just, I have him right here. Yeah, King Mustache. Hey, let's bring him. And let's also bring a cudgel. These are the two things we need. This is kind of our symbols of authoritarianism in this book. And I don't actually need all of King Mustache. I need his mustache only. So here's what we're going to do. This is going to have a little cudgel. All right. And oh wow. Wow. This mustache is actually attached to the rest of his face. I assumed I had done it on its own because it's such an important drawing. So I have to not go in here. Get every pixel I want and any pixels I don't want. Alright. Alright. Okay, so. By the way, I literally modeled this mu- Oh, I did! Oh yeah, okay. I knew it. I knew it. I was like, it makes no sense. It was a group, and the mustache is its own standalone thing, of course. Okay, so I'm gonna copy that, bring it over here. I modeled this mustache after Stalin's actual mustache. Okay. Now, so I don't need a mouth here anymore. Let's get rid of this guy's mouth. I just needed that mouth just because the first guy had to be doing something. But the first guy, despite being a low-rung thinker, guy or girl, by the way, stick figures with no hair could be either. And this mustache does suggest guy, but females can be bullies with big authoritarian mustaches too, just as easily. So don't get cocky if you're a female. Okay. Okay. And now, see, when you get more authoritarian, you get a bigger mustache and a bigger cudgel. Now, now we have to go and work on this a little bit. Vectors would be so much better for this. You're definitely right. I just don't know how to use them. And also, I feel like vectors come out, like, too perfect. But yeah, I have huge problems with, like, resolution and... Yeah, it does look like the Pringles Man. Sorry, Pringles Man. Although his mustache is thin. It's not like a Stalin mustache. Okay. Um, yeah, I do need to learn how to. I just feel like Vectors and Illustrator, I feel like everything comes out perfect and I want it to look drawn, but maybe, um, there's a way to do this. Okay. You can draw an Illustrator. Yeah, I need to make this change because it is hideous when I change the sizes and everything looks bad. Uh, I think this will be the last book that I do in, not Vectors. Uh, okay. Alright, so now, the question is do I want a crown on the third guy? Is that kind of hilarious? I think the crown on this third one might be funny, we'll see. Yeah, the resolution's killing me here, I fucked up. This is way too low res. I might have to redo some of these, like just retrace them on a higher thing, that would be super annoying. Or just let it go and be like, yeah, the drawings are not that professional. Alright, I kind of think that's funny. Let's see how it seems with the text. Okay, so let's get rid of him now. So the premise here is this is... This is someone who... Where did the V come from? This is, the premise is, these are all low-rung thinkers. And this is the different ways they behave when... Sorry. Oh, fuck. Where's my notes here? Alright, this is the different ways they behave after seeing a talk. When a speaker, oh no, no, no, no, that's the next drawing. Okay, so this is just what they're saying in general. Alright, so let's, alright, so get these parameters back to normal. Alright, I think it's time for, it's time for some nicotine gum, everyone. Two milligrams, three a day max, so we don't get addicted. A couple days off a week minimum. And then there's no problem. It's a great little boost of energy. I'm a big fan. Delicious as well. Alan, you're killing me here. I want you to go and... What do I want you to do? Okay, I have a great thing for you to do. Listen to me, Alan. This puts me to sleep all the time. It could not be a better suggestion, actually. I'm happy you asked. I want you to go onto your podcast app. And I want you to listen. to In Our Time by Melvin Bragg. So it's a British radio show where this very dry, superbly boring intellectual British man. You know, he talks like an old British man. He's like, you know, and he interviews three professors, usually British, but sometimes from other parts of Europe or America, about a certain topic. In the archive, it's a radio show that they turn into a podcast. The archive is... So, personally, what puts me to sleep... So, the point is, when I want to go to sleep, I can't listen to something truly boring, or else I tune out, and then I start thinking, which is what keeps me up. But listening to something that's too riveting, now I don't want to... If I miss something, because I'm drifting off, I want to go back, and that's not good either. You want something that is interesting to you, but you don't mind if you miss some, and it's dry, and this is perfect. So, go to the History Archive. And for me personally, the perfect, the sweet spot of helping me fall asleep is in our time, history archive far, far in the past. I don't want stuff from like World War II if I can. The farther in the past, the more it feels like I'm learning about like a magical fairyland far, far long ago. So some recommendations are the Iron Age, the Hittites. What else did I just listen to? Oh, the, uh, the, um, the warring states in China? Anything in BC is great. So go find stuff. I've learned so much about the Iron Age and versus the Bronze Age and, like, what is, why did, you know, Iron matter so much and why was it better than Bronze and why did it come later than Bronze and, like, super interesting but still boring. It's still like a four, four dry, not very charismatic intellectuals explaining something. And it puts me the fuck to sleep. I cannot, it took me like seven nights to get through that Iron Age episode. I go back to where I fell asleep last time. It's like 40 minutes and it couldn't last five minutes in it. There's your recommendation for the night. And now don't, no more spamming. The chat. All right. Okay, so. I like to surround myself. With all, this is way too big. With all different kinds of ideas. Wait. Or all kinds of different ideas. But I'll never... I don't think I'd like to surround myself. I'm fine being around all kinds of different ideas. But I'll never change my mind, right? Because we have a zealot here. This seems a little... This is distracting me, this music. This is not supposed to have lyrics. A smooth... I think we've gotten to a track I don't want to be hearing. Much better. Why would they put one... I guess it's just what the tags are. Okay. I get really upset when I'm listening to my work playlist, and any lyric, even if it's just like a single word that gets repeated, I can't handle any words. or it's distracting. By the way, this is for anyone who's not sure, this is Epidemic Sound, which is what you can use. Yeah, I never changed my mind. See, this is what this is great. Thank you. So this is Epidemic Sound, which we're using because it's legal and licensed. So you can use it on a YouTube stream without getting YouTube shutting you down or getting in trouble or doing something dickish. And I listened to, I have one playlist that I just call lo-fi, which is exactly like this kind of stuff, like lo-fi beats, which I love. But that's only one of the things I like. And so, but if I had my choice, I could play Spotify. I would try tomorrow, second half of the day, when, you know, we're at the very end anyway. So what are you going to do? You're going to kick me off right before I'm done anyway. I might just try playing some Spotify. Because I did get permission from the artists themselves. They just couldn't give me official like YouTube permission because it's probably belongs to the games. It's mostly video game music. So anyway, we'll try that tomorrow. But for now, I'm enjoying these lo-fi beats. I listen to a lot of these. I think it's good. You want upbeat, you know, you don't want something I listen to like sometimes like classical or like movie scores, but it's not the right tone. It's like morose. I want something that's kind of has some like life to it, but But it's also not distracting and it's still kind of low-key. Okay, so this guy is never going to change his mind. Now, what does this guy say? So this one says, if you disagree with me, you can't be my friend. This is the social bully, okay? The social bully is not great, but the social bully is not my big problem. What I'm coming at in this book is not social bullies. I mean, I am also. Oh my god. But, um, here's who I... So, I think that we should all try to get social bullies to improve in our life. I think if we're being that, we should stop doing it. If we are friends with one, we should tell them, call them out on it. It's not cool. But the thing that could be fucking up our society is this third guy. Okay, and this one says... Here's the difference. This is a critical difference between the social bully and this person. And this one says, no one is allowed to disagree with me whether you're my friend or not. Think about college campus, for example, right? So if you have a speaker and all three of these people disagree with the speaker, none of them are going to get their minds changed because these are all low-rung thinkers. The first one might go, right? Might go, might not. but not gonna change their mind. And if their friends agree with it, whatever. This second person's definitely not gonna go to the talk, but also, if their friends go, they're gonna be pissed at them, right? If their friends go, or if their friends like it, they're gonna be pissed, because it's like, we, people like us, don't go to that talk. People like us hate that idea, and they're pushing, you know, people like us, they're pushing their shit on other people. But it's just their friends still. If you're not friends with them, this person has no power over you. The third person... is saying this talk must be shut down. This speaker must be disinvited, which is saying not only am I not going to go to the talk, no one on this campus is allowed to hear those ideas. That's fucked up, whether you're friends or not. You know, this is saying this is they're making a decision for everyone else, which is what I call an idea supremacist. So what we've got is so we've got like so I don't know what this person's called. This person's called the like... We'll just start with non... well, let's capitalize. Non-authoritarian. Low-runger. Thor-thinker. Low-runger. So that's this person. Here we've got the social bully. And here we've got the idea supremacist. Okay. And so... Do some colors here. I should have the colors map on too. Let's just do that quickly. This into our little palette. And then this here. So here's how I can, I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but I don't know what it is at the moment. So here are the three colors that I want to now apply to the text. I could have just... copied these three texts and made them like an object and done the same gradient there, but then I can't change it very easily. All right, so boom. I think these should go below. No bones for anyone. All right. I have saliva on my hand. Okay. I don't want it to seem like I'm talking about the area of the spectrum, although I am. So I might try keeping it up here and the different color can kind of, see? I don't want these lyrics, dude. Stop singing, please. Let's go back to the beginning. Because this... If you could try something different, there's other things here. There's Lo-Fi Hip Hop, which is its own playlist. Should we try that? Oh, that's two things at once. Okay, let's try this. If you're wondering... Oh, shit. I lost my colors. If you're wondering what makes this music sound a certain... way it's the lo-fi-ness like it uh i didn't realize until later like there's a term for this where it sounds grainy and it sounds staticky and like but it actually i like i enjoy that and so to a lot of people which is why it's its own genre called lo-fi um okay i think these are a little big and we're vertical space right so we don't want to try to um okay now let me just kind of Good enough, right? This is this is it. This is the time I think for good enough with like that where these headings are Okay This is super low-res. It's upsetting. I fucked up something somewhere Cool by the way, I've kept this term under wraps idea supremacist, but I'm very proud of it I think it's very useful, but I haven't like tweeted about it or anything. This is the first time I've talked about it in public Stop it. All right It's a term I hope sticks when people read this book. Because once you realize the thing in your head, idea supremacy, you see it everywhere and you're like, okay, and it's specifically the thing that's not okay. You know, people can be stubborn, people can be low-rung thinkers, people can have confirmation bias, that's their own problem. Idea supremacy is everyone's problem. It also helps because political correctness often is used in different ways. Like when it's referring to civility, like you shouldn't use racial slurs. Like almost no one has a problem with that when people have a problem with political correctness What they're often saying is they don't like idea supremacy, but so other people they'll you know it it's like we need that term needs to go away and it needs to be replaced by I Dispremacy, which very clearly does not preclude people from Pressuring people not to use racial service, which is different and the reason that's not idea supremacy is because 99% of people already agree with that So if 99% of people think that you shouldn't say something, it's not idea supremacy to enforce that, to say, hey, don't say that. Or like, you should be fired for saying that. When 20% of people, or when your particular ideology, your particular morals don't like something, but a lot of other people don't think it's a problem, and you're trying to enforce that on everyone, now you're being an idea supremacist. Okay. So there we go. We like it, we're good. Now, now I'm going to, this is the first of three. Drawings that's gonna use this I'm gonna leave this big for now. So now I'm going to copy this No! Barking you get picked up. So it's a tiny noise maker. Okay yesterday I did this and I feel like it's about time to do it again We're gonna lion king him quickly. So he's a very good lion king Lion King dog Turtle over dog. I do agree with you deep down. I mean they're different The tortoise is much funnier. The tortoise is like a screensaver just moseying around your apartment. And it's just like literally like instead of a still apartment, there's like this screensaver. He's just hilarious to observe and watch. Watching him eat is incredible. Watching them eat is gross and annoying. He's easier, obviously. You don't have to like entertain him. They have to get exercise and like play and like stimulation. And like I have to do like little. Real beings you have to like actually hang out with them every day tortoise you can just totally ignore doesn't care about you but This is snuggly They have a lot more personality. They like interacting with each other. They're hilarious like they um, let's just bring both dogs into the picture here You know, they're clumsy They get confused like they're very funny. So I'm a torrent. I mean, I think they're both great tortoises and dogs. I think that People who, you know, a dog is a commitment. You don't want to get one if you don't want to deal with some shit. But tortoise, anyone can kind of get. You should just get a tortoise, basically. Wrong side. So, they're annoyed right now. They don't like being... Because they were annoyed about someone walking around outside. Now they want to go back and yell at that person as if anyone cares about them. Okay. Yeah, barking sucks. Listen, if I weren't allergic to cats, I would definitely... By the way, I was allergic to dogs and cats. Horribly. And the reason I can get dogs now is because they got allergy shots, which seems like such a scam. I'm like, there's no way it works. It worked. I had to go in a ton of times to get shots, but I'm like, pretty much not allergic to dogs anymore. And I haven't really tested it with cats, but I would love to have cats because they seem especially hilarious. And the barking's annoying, but dogs are also like, they're a good time. Okay. Did my view of Elon Musk change since I wrote the series about him? Not really. No, I think really highly of him now, and I did then. And I think my assessment of what makes him special, which is amongst other things, like his ability to reason from first principles really well, and his confidence in his own reasoning, I still think that holds up. I think that is continually what separates him from others. Okay, that's plenty of holding them. Okay, so back to this back to this little smooth because you want to procrastinate right? Okay, so now now this is what gets a little harder here. Oh You know what you're going into the kitchen both of you I'll be back. Okay, the sound is still working shockingly, okay Chickens if I my wife's dream is to have chickens, but her dream of all dreams is to have silky chickens and let's go take a look because she's not wrong silky chicken you gotta see this look at this shit are you kidding me really well no i wanted to see it big um but like just look these up for yourself let me see i can does this work okay is this i don't know if this is working on yours or just mine i don't know if you can see it bigger i'm just zooming into my own screen but like Here, I can do it this way. Oh yeah, okay, it did work. Dude, look at those silky chickens. So anyway, that's a dream is to have those one day. Okay, back to what we were doing here. Estelle, meeting time for you. What a bummer. Okay, well, I guess, you know, meetings do happen. Oh, history archive, okay, yeah. It's a podcast. Well, it's a radio show, a long time weekly radio show, I think, in Britain. But now they've made it into a podcast. The whole archive is in a podcast. And they actually have divided by category. So there's a separate podcast, which is the History Archive, Science Archive, Philosophy Archive, Culture Archive. They're all amazing. My favorites are Science and History. And you can just pick your topics. Just like you just scroll down and you're like, oh, I want to learn about that. And you'll just... 40 minutes later you will know a lot more about it. Um, uh, and, um, oh, that just got really loud in my ear. Yep, that's why. Did the sound just get fucked? Let's see. Okay, no, still working. Um, so it's called In Our Time is the name. So just look up In Our Time History Archive. In Our Time Science Archive is a pod, it's a podcast. And, um, It's just great in general. I mean, look, listening to Dan Carlin, Hardcore History, kind of like, I realized that history podcast could be next level. And now I listen to it more to put me to sleep. But I don't mean that as an insult. I still really, really like it. And it's just very, it's also kind of like a comfort food for me. Like hearing like stodgy British people talk about the Iron Age is just very comforting and fascinating. He's used for insomnia in the UK too. Yeah, I would love to meet him I mean he must that dude is he's just such a good intellectual the reason he's great is because he's he's his the thing that makes him and Dan Carlin great is their curiosity like His curiosity I trust it so I know that he's gonna ask the questions that I wished was it were asked you know when they were talking about the Iron Age and he was saying so Why didn't iron like why is iron better than bronze? You know what? Why is the Iron Age? An improvement upon the Bronze Age and suddenly kind of someone gave kind of an answer and they got distracted a little bit and then he was like no no Okay, but let's just get back to this why is what is iron better for than bronze and then they got to these interesting answers like you can make a sharper you can harden The knife a sword blade or a knife blade you can it's easier to kill people It's better for like nails big nails that could go into boats So in like, you know, in the late in the like, I don't know, 200 BC, 100 BC, the boats got a lot better because they were doing these big iron slats that made these big sturdy boats that could really cross the Atlantic or not. They weren't crossing the Atlantic, but could go really far and use these big iron nails. And then bronze was still used, but it was much more it was less relied upon for. stuff like utility stuff like swords and boats and it was much more for ornaments and you know decorative stuff because bronze is tin and copper and those were the reason that those are easier than iron it's not that they're iron is more plentiful and it's easier it's just as easy to get but the process of making iron is hard you have to smelt the ore in a way you know that is an involved process to make iron and But the earliest but it's also not like it was clean like the Bronze Age there was no iron in it There was iron iron went all the way back to the eight, you know 1800 BC But it really took off as a thing. It went viral. Iron went viral and like I don't know I think it was 500 BC 400 BC something like that. Um, okay Okay, so now now what are we doing? Okay, we're gonna do one more of these three so then we'll do the third one one more and then we're gonna procrastinate So what I want to do here is I want to, these people are all going to a talk. And I think I'm just going to, okay, so here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to bring in, let's bring in our ladder here. I'm going to combine this now with the ladder because these are all low runners, but now we're going to bring high wrong thinkers in too. Okay. Okay. So we've got, we're going to combine these. Okay. So now we're going to say ladder authoritarian. What? Thor-bit-t-arian. Alright, now let's go over here. I just want, I don't need all of this. Let's just bring it all over. Let's just bring it all over for a second. Ugh. See the difference? Look at the difference. This is how it looked on the blog. Nice and bright. Vivid. Now look at how it's gonna look in the book. So much worse. Ugh. So sad. It doesn't fuck with the oranges or the yellows so much, or the reds. It really messes with like the light turquoise-y colors. Anyway, I think part of it is that I'm used to the other one. If you're reading the book, you'll just be only seeing the dimmer colors and that's fine. Okay. So I don't need these bros. Yeah. Lost my grid lines. I don't remember where but that's okay. All right, so we've got and now I'm going to We don't we're not replacing the what you think axis in this drawing. We don't need our rungs either I don't think No, we don't want rungs right now Shit Okay, I think we have a problem which is that these guys have big heads and like they're a certain way right And these guys look different and I think I want them to all kind of be the same. So I think what I'm gonna do I don't think this is a huge a huge issue Because I can just go I could just do this and get rid of his little I think I can just replace these guys with this guy a little cleaner anyway Okay now All right now I think I'm gonna get rid of all the And so now, I think we can go make this more normal size here. And then improve the big ass mustache. And go like that. What is this? Oh, maybe actually I can use it down here. Yeah. Um, okay. It's a little odd to have a mustache with no eyes, but you know, I've done worse things. Um, okay. Because you see, these guys are like part of that paradigm. The whole point of, you know, scientists, sports fans, trying to like say there's actually more of these people. If you parse out the low-run guy by authoritarianism, you've got... Okay, I think that's pretty good still. I like the old one better. Yeah, well, question is, you know what? I kind of think... Okay, here's what I think. I should have saved as, but that's okay. I think I'm gonna go over here and be like authoritarian, just put both of them here for now. I think I might leave the first, when I'm introducing the concept with this, where they're all gonna have things, and then down here, in this one, when I'm actually bringing in these other guys, I'll use the smaller dudes that I made. So, and now I can get rid of... The... that guy. Okay, and maybe I want to keep these labels. Hey, Tushar in India. Where are you in India? Ireland. I would say, where are you in Ireland? But it's just a less interesting question. Because Ireland is a little country and India is a continent with like 20 countries that happen to be all... It's funny because... Someone's like, have you been to India? Yes, no. But no one would ever say, well, I mean, I guess you could say, no one would ever brag, be like, no, I already went to Africa. Like, I did Africa already. You didn't do Africa. Like, what did you do? I went to Nigeria for a little bit. I would never say I did Africa. It wouldn't make sense. It has nothing to do with other places in Africa. But if I went to Mumbai, I might be like, yeah, I went to India. I already did India. I want to go somewhere else now. If it were divided into 20 countries, it would suddenly feel like you have to go to all of them. Like Bangladesh, no one who goes to Mumbai feels like they've been to Bangladesh, right? Because it happens to be its own country or Bhutan or Nepal, right? You have to make separate trips to those if you want to say you've been there. But I can go to Mumbai and say, I've been to India, which is silly. I think you shouldn't be able to say, I've done India without, you know, that's my opinion. You're from Nepal. Wow, we have a lot of people here. Ecuador. I went to Ecuador. I went to Quito. I went into the east to the Amazon and spoke with Quechua people. I didn't speak with them because we spoke no common language. I didn't speak much Spanish at all, and I definitely didn't speak any Quechua. And I did ayahuasca with them, and then I vomited a lot. And then I also went to the Galapagos. Galapagos is a great trip. Highly recommend. to anyone. It's a little tight trip. You can kind of in one week, you can do four days in the Galapagos, a day or two in Quito. I'm having trouble hearing. Sorry, could you say that again? Oh, shut up. Yeah, big, big fan of Ecuador. Philippines. Philippines is hugely high on my list. I'm half Libyan, half Singaporean. Wow, we have a nice thing going. Maine. I'm from Massachusetts, so that's not going to excite me at all, but it's a nice place. Australia. I don't have to ask where you're from in Australia because I know you're from probably the southeast coast, right? You could be. You could be from Perth or Cairns. I guess Melbourne isn't counting, but the southeast. You're from the southeast, right? You have to be. Do I plan to come to Nepal? Absolutely. Although I'm already upset about the altitude situation. Andrew Finn. my business partner and WayPitWi co-founder and best friend since we were five went on a trip to Do a hike up to the base camp of Everest just the base camp and he said it was the worst experience of his life because of the altitude Blogger bigger head has room for bigger mustache. Yeah, exactly. Cool. Okay, let's keep going. So Netherlands argentinian economic crisis i don't think i'll be doing that that's gonna that's a ton of i'd have to dig real deep there before i can tell argentinian people anything about their country um that they don't already know and i don't wanna um but in this book i'm talking about america a lot because i you know i i live here so i have a sense of what's going on here um the netherlands is a place consistently when i would go traveling and stay in Hostiles. The Netherlands has the best English speakers in Europe. Everyone speaks not just perfect English, but like almost with no accent. It's almost, you almost mistake them for Americans. Then that the top tier of English speakers that I came across, just people who I could like, I knew I'd be able to talk to very easily are Netherlands is number one, and then probably Sweden, Denmark. Then it, then there's like a next tier which is close which is germany norway um maybe that's the second tier and then the more south you get the more um the less likely you are to speak good english in my experience at least amongst like 20 something backpackers spain italy some english but you know definitely with a thick accent um uh greece um France is the tricky one because they speak English, but they don't want to. At least that's the stereotype. Um, okay. Greetings from Euro or USA. Uh, okay. Um, so let's just to remind, you know, cause these, these, I'm, I'm relabeling these, even though people know what they are when they're reading this. It's just cause it's been a while that when we get to this section, it's going to have been a while since we were at this topic. It's going to have been like four or five chapters. So, okay. and then um japanese i can when i meet a japanese traveler i would be expecting that they do not speak much english i went to japan which is the best country to visit ever and there was some english but it was also just like you know it's it's just in a different cultural world um okay hello from ukraine hope you're safe I am a non-Japanese speaker. I learned one thing when I was there, which is have a nice day. And I would say it everywhere. Okay. I know it's a little bit tedious at the moment. We're almost there. All right. You see, it's just kind of like, this isn't satisfying how I'm doing this right now. Because now this is below, but I'm just going to let it go. This is going to go into the good enough pile, right? Okay. Like I could obsess forever about how to make the zealot and social bully and I these premises in the same line without fucking everything else up But like that's not a good use of time. All right So now what I'm gonna do is that I'm gonna show how these people all react at a talk When they go see a talk that they agree with And I'm gonna make I'm doing this so I can make a specific point Here's what they're all saying. I don't know how I just did that, but I want to learn how to do that in the future. I accidentally just did something where I just increased the size in the exact way I wanted to without actually doing it. But whatever I just did it... All right. And so this is simple because this is what... And my point here, the reason I'm doing this is I'm making the bigger point that you cannot tell anything about what kind of thinker or person you're dealing with when they agree. Right. We're all awesome, non-bullying, non-authoritarian, super open-minded thinkers when it comes to topics we agree with. True colors are shown when we're presented with ideas that we disagree with. Yeah. Authoritarian and non-an attorney is possible. Yeah. There's a lot of people who they love to argue. They're an attorney because they're not going to change their mind. Deep down. they are in what I call unconvincible land. They are not actually, there's nothing you can say, no evidence you can give them that would make them say, you know what, maybe I'm wrong. They're going to hold their ground. They're going to be a brick wall to argue with. But sometimes they love arguing. They're not trying to force anyone. They actually, a lot of times attorneys relish disagreement. Well, while a zealot usually wants to stay away from it. But even there, you stay away from it. You say, I don't want to hear that talk. I don't want to be anywhere near these people. That's fine. You're not bullying anyone else. It's when you start to say that, you know, no one is, if you disagree with me in this room, I'm going to make your life miserable. I'm going to call you an asshole. I'm going to call you a bigot. I'm going to say I'm not going to be friends with you. I'm going to call you an awful person. I'm going to, I want to be really mad at you. That's bullying. That's bullying. And plenty of attorney, I have attorney friends. I'm an attorney in some ways. We all are. When I know that I'm just like, I'm not really open to changing my mind on this topic, but I'm down to argue. That's not authoritarian at all. Okay. Yeah, there'll be recordings of these sessions. Uruguay. I went there for a second once on a Buenos Aires trip. Okay, let's just move this. Why do I have double of everything? Okay, actually. All right, you see? So this is what it's like when they see a talk they like. Everyone looks the same, everyone acts the same. Whether it's a talk or you read an article. Or you're somewhere at a dinner and someone says something. When you agree with it, everyone acts the same. It's when you disagree, which is going to happen in latter authoritarian two, that all the true colors are shown. But we're going to procrastinate. Should we just finish this one and then be done with this whole thing? I think we should. Then we'll procrastinate. Because I know myself, it's going to be depressing to come back and have to do more on this thing. Okay, so now here I have a lot of text and it's probably too much text, but let's just try it. Oh, as far as mustache making it masculine, this is in reference to a character, this guy, King Mustache, that is kind of a symbol of authoritarianism in my book. And I think people will not confuse it with me saying this is men in particular. Just like I'm not actually saying a scientist thinker is actually a scientist. trade or sports fan actually like sports these are all modes of thinking and the examples include plenty of females so i think we'll be okay there um but good good question all right so let's get this out of the group here all right so now now this is they see something they now now this is how all six of these characters react when they disagree So I'm gonna see if I can put a lot of text in here and just have this be a busier infographic because I do want to have enough text to have nuance. All right, so let me just, I already wrote these, so let me just paste these in. Let me just see even if I have room. This is gonna get a little iffy here. Maybe I can kind of do this. I'll put this one maybe like way out here. This one way out there and do lines to it. This is one of those where I'm going to sacrifice aesthetics for clarity. I want the nuance here to say the exact kind of thing I think actually happens. And we'll just see if we can make this work. Okay. So that's the scientist. Might change their mind. Okay. Now here it's not just good points. Exceptionally great points is the sports fan. The sports fan is defined by They are weighed down intellectually by confirmation bias, right? So they're weakened by this bias, unlike the scientist thinker. But they are convincible when push comes to shove. If you present them with really good evidence, they will change their mind. While the attorney and the sports fan are very similar. They seem very similar most of the time, but the difference is there's no evidence that will make the attorney say, actually, maybe I'm wrong. Why? Why is it doing that? Don't do that. I'm just going to do a newt. Okay, let's just get all the text in here first. Okay. I don't know why it's doing this and it's annoying me. This is going to be a lot of text. I might have to just make all the text small. Let's start there. This should help a little. Okay. That's the zealot. Won't attend the talk. Because they... Let's simplify this a little bit. Okay, I'm going to say the zealot won't attend the talk. And the social bully will get mad at any friends who do. But the idea supremacist tries to prevent the talk from happening. That's the thing that no one should be okay with. Not in a liberal society. The thing is that even the social bully fits in a liberal society. You're not violating the liberal rules. You're allowed to have friends make any criteria you want for who you're friends with. You can say that anyone, I'm going to be a huge asshole to anyone who goes to the talk. Okay. You're going to isolate, you're going to end up with a very certain group of friends who were either pushovers or happen to agree with you. But that's your, you're right. You're not hurting. You're still following live and let live. in the big picture. You're allowed to determine, you're allowed to have any rules you want for your own social group. It's only the idea of supremacist, the one who's trying to create a disinvitation or shut down the speaker or yell in the talk so that no one can hear the speaker. You know, protest outside so that it's hard to get into the talk, which is different than a protest. It's a protest that's actually trying to not let, to make it hard to attend. That is what's not okay in a liberal society. It's actually violating the core liberal rule of let live and let live. So I'm trying to make this distinction. Just very specific definitions of each of these. Okay, so maybe I can put this here. This can maybe now fit here. Maybe I'll just, let's forget the constructing arguments thing. Let's just simplify a little bit. Okay, boom. I don't want to make it like he's talking. People will get the point, I think. It's ugly. It's ugly. But, you know, I could probably make my life easier here. But let's just try this. I'm going to make this spread it out horizontally because I have some horizontal space here, if you notice. So let's get myself a little bit more of that space. That's going to help. Cool. All right. Now we can move some stuff. This is going to be super annoying, isn't it? See, I didn't group these all together and now I'm suffering. I have to figure out what all these tiny little layers are. Why? Ugh, there's just two of these, huh? I doubled up at some point. I don't remember when. Anyway, that gotta go maybe there. Okay, and, um, delete this. What a mess. All right. What the hell? Ugh, okay. This is a mess. Clicking again. What the hell is this? Unbelievable that there's a little tiny thing somewhere. That sucked. Alright, uh, this is, oh, I lost his, dammit. Let's just get these in the right place. There's gonna be two of these too, aren't there? This blows. Yep. Okay. Oh, the little things. Here we go. Okay. I have to redraw. It's really a question if you want to, like, do it right and have everything grouped in the right categories, because that takes time. And if you don't need it, it's a waste of time. But... So you don't want to overly organize your document, but you can see the consequences sometimes of that. That's what's happening now. It's just kind of shitty. All right. That's better, though, than it was. I think I can just now. And by the way, there are, I mean, I'm sure, yeah. I'll take it back, actually. That wasn't the point I thought it was going to be. Okay, hold on. All right. All right. I'm feeling pretty good about this. So you see the difference? Check it out. When they're presented with ideas you agree with, there's no way to distinguish between these six people. It's when you're presented with ideas that you disagree with as true colors are shown. This is how it works. If you say you value free speech, that's not tested with how you treat people who are saying things you like. It's specifically tested, precisely. by how you treat people who are saying things you hate. Right? That's where you show, that's where true colors are shown for what you really think about free speech, for example. Right? So, okay. So there we go. I'm happy. This was good. This was hanging over my head. This is one of the ones I was like, oh, I have to do that whole thing at some point with a whole new axis. Done. We did it. I'm very satisfied. You know what? I think authoritarian scientists Okay, so to be clear, when I say scientist, I'm not saying a career scientist. There are career scientists that are all six of these. I'm talking about thinking like a perfect scientist, which is someone who is not, is super humble, not attached to their ideas and says, I might be wrong. They still can get confident in their ideas, but it's their conviction very closely. reflects their knowledge, their real knowledge. That person is almost never authoritarian because it makes no sense. They're searching for truth. Why would they be angry? It's something that only happens when your primitive mind's involved and you're identifying with ideas. So by definition, when you're thinking like a scientist, you're never going to be authoritarian about your ideas. That's different than, as I said, talking about a racial slur is an example of something that that's in a different category because 99% of people think that's something you shouldn't say. So all six of these people might enforce That. And if someone says a racial slur might say, fuck off, or you should be fired, or whatever. But we're talking about things that are very subjective, that a lot of people agree with, a lot of people disagree with. Those ideas, I don't see a scientist, someone, remember, we're all, like, we're all six of these. So I don't, there's not like, you are a scientist and you are a social bully. Sometimes we all act like social bullies without realizing it. Sometimes we all act like scientists. We all think like this. And so when you're in scientist mode, you're not going to be authoritarian. Sports fan may be, attorney may be a little, but not really because attorneys like to argue, right? So they're not trying to, but yeah, an attorney can be a bully, you know, they can in their own way, but it's really the, the, the bullying is usually a product of being very low rung. in your head in that moment to the point where not only are you not going to change your mind, it's even worse than that. You want to punish anyone else who thinks this thing too, which is a really specific impulse that emerges from very low-rung psychology. Why are they not just lower down? So I did that. I had that as other things, but to me, it actually was a little confusing because then it's suggesting... My point is that the zealot is the lowest... The zealot means you're thinking almost entirely with your primitive mind. Right. So I think you could argue that, yeah, that's just a rung even below and it might be a little more satisfying. But then it makes it seem like the zealot is in the middle of the ladder when they're not. The zealot is at the bottom of the ladder. You know, the four things are the four different like ways you can be thinking in your own head. And the zealot thinking is at the bottom of the ladder either way. right there there's no that that is by definition when you you are attached to your ideas but yes you could argue that like this is like a more extreme zealot as a social bully but i think it's a different thing that's why i want it to be a separate axis because it's it's its own it's a different concept that's a that you can overlay with this more than being an extension so i had that for a while i had that you know social bully idea supremacist and by the way you can go lower idea supremacist is someone who tries to shut down the talk, but you can go to people who are actual violence starts coming. And you have, you know, countries out there where you will be put in jail for saying the wrong thing, you will be executed for saying the wrong thing. Or, you know, if you're in a certain culture, you might actually, you know, get your ass kicked physically for saying the wrong thing. That is, I would say even the next level. But again, to me, that that is to fall all that falls under the umbrella of idea supremacy. It's just how extreme you're being. So To me, this is the best compromise for how I'm trying, really what I'm trying to say. But I did think of just extending the ladders, the ladder below. All right. Now, is there an x-axis for variations in scientists? Not in this case. There could be. I mean, the normal x-axis for most of the book is what you think. So there are scientists that think... all the way from this part of the spectrum to this. And each of these spans the horizontal axis of what you think. That's normally the x-axis. Here I'm making a different point. I'm trying to show authoritarianism as its own concept. So this x-axis mostly applies to the low-rungers. Okay, let's procrastinate. That was a good session. Good job, everyone. We did well. All right, so here's what we're going to do now. We're going to go back to our crossword puzzle first. Oh no, that was the other page. All right. We can go look at Abbey Road, but nothing's going to be going on, unfortunately. Abbey Road is an early part of the day activity for Americans only. Where is my hair? Oh, the silky chicken. All right, let's close this. Did I lose my, no, here it is. All right. All right, so we're going to continue here. And... All right, let's keep working here. I still do not enjoy this clue. Cheesecake. Passing over in a way. Elitist? No. Templeton and Despero for two. I don't know what that means. I forgot about how much I hate this puzzle. The Mummy director, Steven. I hate the trivia, the people trivia. I never know it. Spurn on social media. Unfollow. Easy. All right. One face on the moon. Well, there's the light side, the dark side. Is there a name for the man in the moon? Where the heart is. I don't speak French. Metier. That's infuriating when they do this. Turn ons. Okay, and that makes sense that, oh, Rivulet must be a Brooker. Crook. Yeah. River. I'm sure this is a little river. So brook. All right. Oh, but what is BC here? Compound word? Oh, Liam. Liam. That was a great job. Change one's story. Oh, is it like lift? No, it's like going up in an elevator. Well, damn day. Nickname for the Eiffel Tower. I'm not going to know this. Okay. Let's see if we have some more help here. Oh, golf. Sam Sneeds. I don't know about this R. It's AA. Although Metier, God knows what this is. Oh, no. That's a D. So what could this even mean? Alan, you're going to ruin your day tomorrow. I'm with you. I do this shit too. I also would be... I've, so many times I've been here, 425, and I'm just kind of like hooked on something. I don't want to go to bed. And I'm kind of having fun. But you're going to regret it. You're going to regret it. I think you should go to bed. And you can watch the rest of this tomorrow. We're going to make them available. Okay. Able to vote, say, of age. Nope. Still don't know that. Okay. Oh, this. Where are we getting here? NEA. One face of the moon. Nearside. Nice. Okay. Some athleisure. Oh, is that like a sweater? No. Sweats. Okay. Okay. That makes sense. The Mummy director. Stephen. Seconds. More. Like I want more food. I want seconds. Stephen. The stream isn't ending anytime soon. The stream is going at least three more hours LA galaxies or MLS. Okay. Okay. So it must be summers in which case rodents Okay, I don't know either of those rodents. I know ratatouille Slacks say pants Okay, I thought it what wait a second. What the fuck is going on here? Slacks say Slacks say all right, so they're getting cute with me. Oh wait. Oh This must be pinup Cheesecake it must be pinup and this is slacks say Two different kinds of slacks here. This has got to be pants Department of Justice division is the DEA right? The DEA right? Alicia says pings like aha Okay, that's that's good pings like slack good job. Good job. Okay uh passing over aligning right all right okay we're getting there you see it starts to crack it's very satisfying when a section starts to crack and then it starts it just falls suddenly okay cosine or secant i should know this i i tutored trig uh um it is a for example example is it okay i don't know perfunctory as an answer dea is not a division of justice But this is right, alighting, right? I think it is a division of justice. Unless they got it wrong, but usually they're pretty good fact checkers. Grow rapidly. Blank in black and white. Next looks strong about teenage years of an athlete activist. Colin? Is it a name? That would be annoying. Oh, radii. Is that right? They're not radii, but those look right. Perfunctory as an answer. Bad? Grow rapidly. 25D balloon. Oh, right. Okay, so this is not radii. I'm embarrassed that I don't know what this one is. Balloon. Who said that? Good job, Cesari. All right. Okay, so then what the hell? So that is vacuums, that's rings. I think it's Colin, but maybe it's not. Maybe... Maybe this is wrong Spotify most streams artist. Okay, let's think what would a It's almost Beyonce, but it's not right. Okay. Let's see Artists who inspired the book The Gregory Merva wicket. I don't know. I don't like all of them It's not you know, I like puzzles that are hard. It's much harder to do that You can make a puzzle hard by putting in hard trivia That's just kind of a bullshit though. It's much preferred ones that are like clever plays on words or just like you have to think hard about it. It's kind of a cheap way to make a puzzle hard in my opinion and it doesn't make it that fun. All right, irate is balloon misspelled. Yes, yes, okay. Ratio. I might have taken forever to find that, so thank you. That solved a lot of problems. Huh, what is this? as an answer. I don't know. All right, that was huge though. Okay, so what is even a setting here? Let's see. Okay, let's go back up here. Dualist's warning. What is a dualist? I don't know. Preppy bit of outerwear. Backups. Wow. I have no idea who the fuck Bad Bunny is and that shows how unhip I am. No, no, it can't be Bad Bunny. On guard. But what the hell is Bad Bunny? Okay. I don't like this one bit. NB- Oh, maybe- Okay, wait. Oh, bye. Like, uh, lags. Okay. Oh, clones. Bad but I someone fucking with me. Why would someone tell me it was bad bunny and make me write bad bunny And it was not bad bunny, but now what the hell is this? irate seething Oh steamed good job, Alex And this Poland Pat sure okay bowtie alternative. I do not know Legislation issue. Oh. Uh. Oh. Oh, okay, okay, it's not clones. Oh, penne. This is very good, whoever said that. Uh. Okay. Yes, penne. And it must be Bad Bunny. Wait. Peacoat. Uh. The Affordable Care Act, right? So, backups. Plan B's. Ah. It was Bad Bunny. Okay, I take it back. I'm sorry I yelled at you. Who the fuck is Bad Bunny? I truly... All right. Now, we're getting close. Okay, we're back to this godforsaken section here. Family heads. Capos, right? Movie with a climax, but no plot. Question mark. Sex tape? Wow. That is risque. I'm proud of them. Celebrity. with a namesake serial launched in the 80s. Who the hell is this? I don't know that. Okay, let's go over here. Okay, reached out with one's fingertips, texted. Changed one story, edit. All right, and so this is trade, sure. And so this is now, must be like O'Keeffe. And that sounds right. Padlock's Place, I don't know what that is. Shit. Padlock's place. Hasp? I think Hasp. Ackerman, probably. MRT? Oh my god. It was right. All right, hold on. Let's just pause here. Who is MRT? Celebrity? Oh, Mr. T! Okay, that makes so much more sense. Mr. T. And I have no idea who Ackerman is. Good, that was a good collaboration. I got it at least 10 minutes faster than I would have alone. Okay, okay. Decent puzzle, but I don't like the ones with all of the French fucking directors. It's stupid, because either you're a buff on that and you know it and then it's a gimme, or it's impossible. That answer is either obvious or impossible. That's not good. It's not fun for either of those two people. As opposed to like sex tape is a great one because it's like, it's, you have to, once you get it, everyone goes, ah, right? Those are good answers. And, and Ackerman is a stupid one, in my opinion. Summers, like either you know it or you don't, but that's not fun. Also, it's like sometimes there's six of those, right? And so it's the person who happens to know four or six, it's actually just an easy puzzle for them. because it fills in so much. And the person who happens to know one of six, that's such a harder puzzle. And it's like, the puzzle shouldn't range in difficulty so much based on that, like dice roll, whether you know the people or not. All right, that's my little rant about that. So we did global. Now, I'm not done procrastinating yet. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to run to the kitchen and just eat something, you know, for a second. And I'm going to, here's what you're going to do. You're going to come up with a caption. To this week's New Yorker caption contest and I'm gonna zoom in on it. Oh What did I do? Nope, I messed up. Okay, I'm gonna zoom in Watch it. I'll just make it big here All right, so you come up with a caption and I'll pick my favorite once we get back. All right, and I'm gonna Yeah, I'll be back. I'm gonna say here. I'll put it over here Let's just quickly... All right. How did we do? Let's take a look. Something's wrong. Oh. All right. There we go. All right. So we're going to look at those. All three of us, Remy, Gus, and I, we're going to assess how you did on these captions. Let's get everyone in the picture here. All right. So let's see. What the hell is GeoGuessr? Okay, we'll do that after this. He's in Ursa Major Trouble. Okay, okay. I mean, puns are not gonna win the New Yorker caption contest, but I enjoy them. This is, by the way, this is the current one. The three winners, if you think you really have a good one, submit it, because you might be one of the three finalists. I love the way the moonlight hits your cheeks. Okay, okay. I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty. Okay. That's my favorite so far. It was then I began to suspect that he was not going to hold the flashlight for me. Okay. I'm awful at these, by the way. I'm impressed with anyone who can do this. Yo, got an 8mm wrench. Okay. Should've thought about that chance meeting for the rest of his life. That explains the growing noise. Okay. It's going to cost you. I like these, I like these, okay. I've seen worse. Ha! The bearings. You know how big porno starts right? These are kind of hilarious. None of these were probably gonna be, I don't think, finalists, but that's a hard bar. Help me with your bare hands, yeah. The puns are never gonna win, but I appreciate it. Didn't realize he was the dinner. Literally unbearable. Final exam for car mechanics is kind of funny. I should have gotten a Toyota is also kind of funny. All right. Even the bears are ordering delivery. That's funny, it just wouldn't work because he's working on the car, but that's the kind of thing that would win, that would get into the thing. I love if we're agreeing his name is Greg. All right. I think I'm waiting for you to work up a sweat. Tastes better that way. Okay, these are pretty good of all the that's funny edible underwear one. Okay. Um, I think my favorite I used to be a Ford owner too Random, but I like it. Okay. I think my favorite was uh What's his name's I think Pablo? Where was that first one from Pablo? I kind of thought was the best Oh, sorry Pedro I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty, I think is probably my favorite. Just because that's the kind of thing that might win. That could end up as a finalist, it probably wouldn't, but it's in the genre. So let's look at, here's the thing. We can also look at this one. Wait. We can look at this one here, and this one has the finalists already. So we're not going to spend too much time here, but like, so you can think about what you might say. Now here are the three that actually ended up as the finalists here. Okay, so there's... Oh, geez. Gus, that's enough from you. Turns out they only check to see if you return the shoes. Or we could get a burglar alarm. Okay. Downstairs neighbors. What is it this time? That's pretty good. Okay, and then this one also. The winner of this one was... Oh no, they're returning him. That's pretty good. I was expecting the invasion, but not the audit. I kind of like that one better than the winner. I think they want to settle. Yeah, I think I like the second one the best. All right, moving on. GeoGuessr. Okay. You two have overstayed your welcome. All right. GeoGuessr. This better not be like, I don't want to download anything. Okay. Play free now. Oh no. No, an account. I don't want to do this right now, sorry. I will do it sometime. Okay. What else did I want to do? I think we should do one more thing before we get back to work, which is we should go back to wiki roulette. So this is a page that shows you a random Wikipedia article. I think it just literally uses a random number generator to select some article on Wikipedia, or at least on English Wikipedia. So this is where we ended last night. I was turned off enough by having to read about Ricardo Carvalho that I actually, that I decided to end that session. So here's what's next. Pefnos. Pefnos was a town in ancient Laconia. I'm sorry, who wrote this article? Who was like, you know what? There was a town in ancient Laconia, a small town named Pefnos, and there's a problem, which is that there's not a Wikipedia article about it. So I'm going to go and spend time, probably looks like at least a half hour, maybe an hour. Look at all those sources. Okay, so nowadays the village Agios Dimitrios of the municipality West Mani is near or at the spot where the ancient Pefnos existed. Meanwhile, the village Agios Dimitrios does not even get a Wikipedia page. So it was a small island. There's a tradition that the Dioskori, whatever that is, who were born on this island. Well, we have to figure out who they are. The island's at the mouth of the river Malaya, which is in the minor parsimist. There's a lot of words here I don't feel like having to read. This is like reminding me of like first grade, having to go through and like read the hard words. In July 2020, a statue of an egg was placed on the island. Well, that's good to know. Someone took a picture of the egg, made sure it had gotten to the Wikipedia article. depicting the union of Zeus with Leda and proposing that Helena Troy was born on the island. Maybe that's why. So let's look at this egg. Do we like the egg? It's an okay egg. Oh, okay, we have a bigger view here. All right, it's a little, I don't know why she's fully assaulting this swan. Maybe it's the other way around, but it doesn't look like it's a good scene here. So going back, let's also figure out what I want to know what the diascuri are. Castor. Oh my god, this is so funny. We literally had Castor and Pollux in the crossword yesterday. Now we learn what they are. That's a coincidence. Castor and Pollux are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology. Okay, yeah, I don't know about them. Whose kids are they? Parents, Laida and Zeus, not bad. Not bad. Although I don't think it's great growing up that Zeus is your dad. You know, that's gotta be a mind fuck. So I don't think these guys had it so good actually. Alright, but anyway, Castor and Paul, what does that do with what we were reading? That the Diascori were born on an island. What does, known together as, wow, they have a name as the two. Okay, so they were born on this island. So Zeus, okay. We're gonna move on. That's enough from Pepnos. The Malongkeng. Without looking, I'm going to guess this is in Southeast Asia, right? This sounds very Vietnamese. Let's see. Malongkeng is a religious site located in the south of China. Okay. Dedicated to the Zhaoxi Dragon King. Revered by villagers. Look at this little adorable Wikipedia article. It's four paragraphs. There's no sources. At the top, they're basically telling you it's not even real. It's not neutral. It doesn't have any sources. But it's this adorable little... How are we ever gonna come across this article normally? Donations are made. Wow, they're like soliciting in this little article. According to the Dragon King went to the aid of the Imperial troops in the Ming Dynasty and was honored by the Zhejiang Emperor. So I was just learning about the Ming Dynasty. I think it might have been from Melvin Bragg. But I forget. I forget why. Why was I learning about the Ming Dynasty recently? Oh, the Great Wall of China. Great Melvin Bragg episode. The Great Wall of China, which is very complicated history and fascinating. And you did not want to be one of the people sent out there to build that. That was not... You probably didn't want to be one of the people building the pyramids, you know? That did not mean good things about your life. So anyway, I was learning about this because it was, you know, it was really relevant in like the BC time and then he like pretty much jumped up to the Ming Dynasty when they did a lot more development. Hey! He loves to bite my cords. Troublesome. Alright, um, let's keep going. They, oh wow. In July 2004, the Fen Gua Municipal Government banned the festival, the Colorful Religious Folk Festival, citing danger from the fire to the Showney Forest, or... or it was like a thing where China didn't like the, you know, other, other kind of wanted to shut down other cultural things. I don't know. That's a big assumption. Maybe it really was just bad for the forest. All right, moving on. Republicans for the rule of law. Wow. This is, um, magical. Um, run from like a magical, mystical, like island with Zeus to like, uh religious site with you know festivals to the republicans for the rule of law is the principal initiative of the conservative anti-donald trump political group defending democracy together founded by the usual suspects over there okay um so there we go you know what this poli this book has enough politics i'm sick of it i don't want to read about this i don't care i don't care about the republicans for the rule of law i don't have an opinion I don't like them or dislike them. I just don't care. I don't want to learn anything else about them. Luciano Nezzo, dead, lived 47 years, 46 years, 47 years, in, he's an Italian painter. Again, not a very famous Italian painter because this is not much of a Wikipedia article. That is three paragraphs. He was born in this place. Wow, who wrote this article? I just don't get it. I don't understand who writes the Wikipedia articles. Let's see some of his art, at least. We're gonna give him a second here. Let's see something he did. All right, all right. Good job. Oh, this is creepy, Luciano. This is super creepy. What are you doing? What is this? What is this? Is this supposed to be sexual or is she like... Look, her hand is on... She's pulling his wrist. What's behind his... What is his hand doing behind there? Is he about to kill her? Well, that is way creepier than I thought it was gonna be This is not a good scene. We just happened upon here by Luciana. I see why his Wikipedia article so short All right, is this another gruesome scene? Hold on. Let's just see what's going on here Yeah, I mean she's crying She's crying because she's in a Luciano mezzo painting. It's the last place a woman should be given look at this I mean, maybe she seems like she's into it, but I don't know. She also, look, look, look at that hand on the wall. This is a woman who is like, oh yeah, I just had to be going actually. No, no, sorry. Yeah, I had to get home. This is not someone who's, isn't that, and he's like, and he like grabs the, he grabs the, the vase and he's like, he's like, he's like, no, honey, we just started talking. We just started talking. And she's like, no, I gotta go. Wow, so far the women are in the shit in this man's paintings. Meanwhile, okay, now look at her. She's stuck doing this man's hair dye. This is awful. All right. Okay. Here we have a reverse Romeo and Juliet situation. Seems better to be her than him, actually, in this case. He's in prison. Okay, let's move on. Let's go back to Wiki Roulette. Let's do two more. All right. Freedom Souls is the fourth studio album from Burlap to Kashmir. That is random. That is random. Never heard of that band, and apparently no one has. Again, when a Wikipedia article is two paragraphs long, that is not a famous band, right? Any band that you've heard of, their Wikipedia article is at least five or seven or ten paragraphs long, and there's a big discography. I mean, I guess this is just the album. Let's go see. Okay, all right. This is something. Not much. I'm not impressed, but it's something. Performing 2019. Wow. All right. They look like they're enjoying their lives. Let's see. Okay. It's a hipster. Even more of a hipster. Yeah. So this guy and then this guy over here. Oh, that's like... This guy is very focused. Okay, good job. Well, you got yourselves a little mini Wikipedia page. It's better than nothing. Okay, we're gonna do one more. Holy Family, Old Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska. All right. Wow, someone put a lot of work into this Wikipedia page for this. I wonder what it's like it took as long as making the cathedral itself like with all the sources. All right, so here's the cathedral. That's fine. It's not bad. Now what's the deal with this? It's the Mother Church of the Archdiocese of Anchorage and served as this cathedral from 1966 to 2020. Oh no! After the Archdiocese of Anchorage and the Diocese of Juneau were united, it seems like that's weird, they're far away from each other, in 2020 Our Lady Guadalupe Co-Cathedral took its spot. That sucks for this cathedral. It got demoted in 2020. The Holy Family remains a parish church. Just a parish church now. Alright. I think that's fine. In 2020, Pope Francis united these two out. That's a big move. To just unite these two and demote this church. Alright. I guess we can get back to drawing. But man. Drawing is hard. How do I look at my headphones? I like my headphones. I think, like, as I said yesterday, they're probably overpriced, right? They're not, I had Bose headphones before this, and they were, every bit is good. Probably the sound is even better, I don't know. And the battery was better than these. But the connectivity is easier with an Apple device if you use Apple ecosystem products and you're switching back and forth. You can sleep on planes like this. Which you can't do with other headphones. It's weird. This is so big and flat you can add. It's still not great, but you can. And the transparency mode is incredible. To be able to switch back and forth and suddenly you hear every sound in the room as if you're hearing nothing. With a button, a little dial. So I like that. Those are three good things. Maybe the new Sonys or the new Bose have all that and I don't know. But my old ones didn't have that. The battery is okay with these but it's the other one you know my pose lasted like a week this last like two or three days What did I have to eat? I stood in front of the fridge like I did yesterday and just kind of like Put stuff in my face. I had some leftover fajita food. I had some pretzel chips and salsa and hummus And I had one hard-boiled egg because it was there and I got a seltzer I retrieved the dogs and I'm back here now. Okay. Oh, you went to Suncoil Lake too, Quentin. That's cool. It's extremely beautiful. It's like a giant, it's like a beautiful little like alpine lake surrounded by vast, a vast grassy plain where they have horse races and nomadic shepherd families live in yurts and they race horses and there's big, you know, hills and mountains in the distance and it's, um, it's pretty cool to visit. Um, all right. Um, I think it is about time. It's about time. So we're gonna, uh, I'm gonna do a little Nicky gum boost because this won't keep me up, but coffee at this time of night will. The half-life of caffeine is, is longer. It's like double the length, I think. Let's look this up. Five hours two hours. That's a huge difference. That means six hours from now When I want to go to bed this is like You know one one eighth in my system coffee half of it basically is still in my system 40% huge difference can't have coffee too late, but Okay How long is the book it's a long book pages don't make sense because it's It's a bigger book, so there's like 400 plus words per page. So it's longer pages than normal, but also there's illustrations. So longer pages means the page count comes down for the same words. Illustrations means the page count goes up. So I don't know how many actual pages it comes out to, but the reading itself would be about a 480 page book right now, 500. That's a little too long. I'm going to try to cut another. 10-15% before I publish so it'll hopefully be around the closer to the 400 page range which is long But there's a fuck ton of stuff in this book It's like there's a lot of ideas a ton of concepts lots of stories a lot of history And so I think that you know people When they read it, we'll understand why it's on the longer side. And that's part of why I didn't want to finish this on the blog, because I had way too much to say. For anyone who missed it, I was explaining yesterday that the story of us is a series on We Put Why. Ten chapters were published. I was going to finish with a couple of extra chapters and be done. But I realized that most of what I had to say had not yet been said. All of that was setting up... all the stuff I really wanted to say, all the exploration I wanted to do with current events. And so what I did was, um, I condensed those 10 chapters, which is about a hundred thousand words into about 30,000 words and made it the first quarter of the book. So maybe 40,000 words. So yeah, so it's, um, The first quarter of the book is like, is kind of those, a lot of the core concepts from the series condensed and improved upon, partially from all the commenters. Like, I felt very lucky to have like a thousand feedback givers. Usually you get like two or three. I had so many people who had offered feedback inadvertently by just commenting. So I made it better. I improved a lot of things that confused people or that just people didn't fully, you know. that I think people got the wrong idea from that didn't successfully get across what I was trying to get across. And then the rest of the book is all new. So if you've read the series, most of the book is gonna be new. And the intro and all the interludes, most of it's very new stuff. All right. Do you wanna know what my next blog post will be? No. I have such a long, thorough list of topics to do that I actually it overwhelms me to look at it. I have like 10 or 15 topics I'm like dying to write about like urgently because it's time later because I just want to get the idea out and then there's like another you know my old list had hundreds and so I just had all these build up so I I won't get into which topics they are but there's a lot of them um and um I'm gonna I'm excited to get to write a bunch a bunch of them plus I have another book in mind which is a much shorter a book that'll be much quicker for me. shorter book to read and i think a lot of fun and cross that cross that bridge a little bit later um what's an example of something i changed so for example i i think where did i did i keep it up i think i threw i i closed it but i had um the thinking ladder chapter up and that chapter is chapter seven of the story of us that has like um probably like 15 or 20 different concepts in it and i probably condensed I probably combined a couple I combined a couple of them into one and I just some of them seemed unnecessary not you know nice to have but not need to have a little redundant and so now it's tighter it's gonna get across I think 90% of the same stuff in one-third of the length that's what I was going for can I get across 90% of what I'm trying to say in a third of the length and then so like echo chambers idea labs that's chapter 8 all that's in there but again I just had a lot of extra diagrams and things, you know, because I was partially experimenting. I had all the different ideas. I wanted to get them all out there. Now I've seen what resonates. I see how it feels with some time in between. And so I'm getting the core idea of Echo Chambers and Idea Labs across without having it be so long. And then, you know, political Disney World versus high-rung politics, that's all in there. All shortened. But then there's other things that got like changed. Like I have the high ring giant and a low ring giant that have names that didn't used to have. And they actually, they're, they're, they have a slightly different thing going on. Um, but yeah, you'll just see a lot of the, like in the blog, I have the, A, I'm just doing one chapter at a time and B it's just space is cheap. I can just add stuff. So I just would, I have one drawing. I think it's the beginning of chapter. Where I'm like here's what like it feels like to be a second cure. I'll find it This is an example of something That is great in a blog post, but just got cut No, I'm in the wrong chapter it's chapter Three yeah, okay, so here this see here. I'm like, okay So look with that in mind let's imagine a big extended family made up of 27 families And I had this one person in red, so that's the chief right and then we talk about siblings families, the cousins families, and the second cousins. But if you're this family, the tribe, to the yellow family, the tribe feels like this, and the chief just randomly gets to be out here. I'm not explaining this well now, but you can read it where it's explained better. And then to these other families who seem like, oh, they're just the outskirts of the tribe. Well, they don't feel like the outskirts of anything. They feel like the center of their own clan. So why is the red clan ruling over the green and orange clan? That's what it feels like to them. To the red guides, it feels like, yeah, great. This is my extended clan. But they're thinking, no, you're not in our clan. So anyway, that's the example. I think it's a really interesting concept. I've thought about it a lot, and it was fun to actually illustrate it. It's not necessary. Oh, these guys, this is all gone. I did enjoy the bad baby from down the block. I enjoyed Kiki. All of this, this is all gone. This was all interesting. I like it. I think it gets across, all of this gets across something important. It's just that for the book, I was like, what's the core thing I'm trying to get across in this book? Can't be everything. And then now, if it's not really important to that through line, cut it. And it's still, as I said, I'm still, I'm too long. I need to cut anyway. So it was good. It was a good exercise in having to really distill what matters here. These wolves are gone, you know. All of this has gone. Also, just sometimes you have a lot of terms. Super glue stories. It's a good term, right? I like it, but I can't have a trillion terms or people won't remember anything. So most of the, at least half of the terms are just cut. Like super glue story, queen bee, none of that's in the book. But I think I'm getting across 90% of the important stuff. That was the big challenge. How do I get across all the really important things while also cutting these stories? It was really a pain to cut this little the fun little chromosome guy You also just can't have that many drawings in a book or it'll be to you know 1200 pages long. Oh this whole panel that's all cut But this guy This guy made it in a big way. This guy became more important in the book Yeah, these these guys are a big deal in the book. No more mr. Question mark man. All right a cheat sheet for all the framework guests There's going to be a glossary that I'm going to explain at the beginning of the book. All the terms, core metaphors, and the main definitions. It's a language. The first third of the book, which is what the story of us did, is it builds a language. High rung and low rung, primitive mind, higher mind, all this to talk about what's going on in the world. And so there's a glossary for that language in the back of the book. And then I might also do some little sum-up charts as we go. Could you maybe you can include these in separate optional reads? Well, the way I consider it is that the story of us is gonna stay online and it's the long version of the framework then the book has the short version of the framework so Anyone can still go read this. This is not going anywhere Yes, the book will be available everywhere Okay, so yeah, I know I know it's long. It's long but It just is a lot. I had a lot to say and I really wanted to like say it fully. But as I said yesterday, I designed the book in a way where if someone reads the first three chapters, which is like the first third of the book and they quit, they'll get a lot out of it still. You don't have to finish the book to get a lot out of it. You won't get the full thing, but all right, moving on. All right, so drawings. You have to draw. I'm going to make a new item here. I'm just going to copy because we know what's happening. Well, let's, let's be, uh, so then we did dinner break. Then we did with dinner break and captions. Um, I'll count this as more procrastination. We did, uh, you know, we did the wiki roulette and all that. Um, and now we're going to draw and then we're going to procrastinate. I'd like to get two more drawing sessions and two more procrastination sessions in before the night's over. And I'll be happy. Okay. All right. So back to this. I'm pleased this is done. I'm happy with the mustache man. The mustache man and the crown. Yep. Okay. So what's next here? We've got so much to do still. My God, there's so many items left. What should we do next? Alright, do that one. It's just like, it's like picking up, it's like one of those fear factor things or in Survivor they do that you pick up like the cockroach, you have to eat the cockroach, nope, and then you pick up and it's like poop and you're like nope, and then you look and you pick up the next thing and it's like, you know, someone's testicles and you're like, rather not, you know? and you have to eat one of them. And I'm just, I'm just keeping like, well, not eating that. And I'm like, okay. And I'm like, well, not eating that. And then I come back to this one. I'm like, I have to eat one of these. That's how I feel right now. Once I'm actually doing, like, this is an example, the one you're looking at of one that felt like that to me. I was like, oh, I can't. Then I started doing it. I was like, oh, this is, this is, I know how to do this. I can do this. So none of these are that bad. That's what you have to remember. All right. So I'm deciding between two here. Well, why don't we just try this one from chapter six? This is towards the beginning. Alright. This is a theme for today, you know? This idea-supremacy idea and authoritarianism as a concept, as opposed to confirmation bias and all that. We're focusing more on authoritarianism drawings right now. So... Because, by the way, this is similar in its own way. This has something to do with this. You know, victimhood culture has... Yielded idea supremacy and a bunch of good people who aren't trying to be authoritarians, but it's it's trained people to try to you know punish You know you don't like the idea Go get an authority and try to punish them for it So let's kill stay on this in this area here this next one is What are we gonna call it? green orange environment Culture challenge. Okay, we're gonna call it culture challenge. All right. So this comes like only a few pages before this, not this one, not this one, this. I have decided which one of these to use yet, but probably we'll go to the top one, right? It's kind of weird to have them one way and then switch. Anyway, so this current drawing that we're about to do comes right before this. This is now, this one here is generalizing what we are exploring right before, which is the concept of a dinner table. We have two characters, high-rung Heidi and low-rung Lola, and they're neighbors. And Lola and her friends, you know, they have an echo chamber culture amongst them about politics. You know, everyone obviously agrees. Obviously we're the good guys, and obviously anyone who disagrees with us is awful and evil and horrible and stupid and morons. And obviously none of us would ever blah blah blah. You know, we're all part of that culture here and there, right? High-rung Heidi, her dinner parties are full of disagreement. People will take the unpopular view just for sport, right? They'll take it just to... It's interesting. You know, how would someone argue well for this? And people love to disagree because they're having fun. No one's mad at themselves. No one's identifying with the ideas. And it's a totally different culture, Idealab culture. So we already, I have that depiction already drawn of the two dinner tables. Now I'm going to generalize the concept of, so then I said, well, that's fine. But what if Lola has Heidi over for dinner? or Heidi has Lola over for dinner, what happens? And especially talking about Heidi having Lola over for dinner. What happens? Lola has two options. So she's someone, Lola does not like hearing disagreement with her, right, about politics. She thinks, she does not like being around people disagreeing. In Heidi's house, dinner's gonna be full of it because people like to just disagree, right? So Lola can accept that culture and say, look, I'm not in my own dinner right now. This isn't how I like to have, this isn't how I like, you know, the kinds of friends I like. But you know what? Went in Rome and she just at least, um, get out of here. Oh, did I just mess, did I just mess up? No, I didn't. Did anything get screwed up there? I never know. No, everything's still working. Great. Um, so Lola has two options. She can say, look, I'm not gonna, she's gonna sit there and grit her teeth while everyone's saying stuff she can't, thinks is despicable. And then she's going to leave and tell her friends, those people are awful, by the way. My neighbor is the worst. Like, she and her friends. Oh, my God. Right? Or Lola can actually issue a challenge to the culture. Rather than accept the prevailing culture at Heidi's, she can say, she can try to enforce her echo chamber rules on this idea lab. And how would she do that? She would get really offended. She'd get really angry. Right? She would say, Or she would say something like, can we just not talk about politics please? You know, something like that. Or she would say, you know what you sound like right now, right? You sound like assholes, you know, whatever. And even if she were engaging, she'd be doing it in a really fighty, unpleasant way. No smiling, you know, and clearly getting upset. Or maybe she would get upset is the other thing. Maybe she would, you know, get really kind of like act like she's really hurt or whatever. These are all... forms of bullying. It's trying to bully the culture into submission to say, now that I'm here, we're all going to play by my rules, which is, that's a social bully, right? Now, in scenario two, where Lola does that, Heidi's and her friends, they have two options. They can, so what's happening is Lola standing up like in a courtroom being like objection and the culture can say sustained. Like, in other words, the culture can seed, the culture can temporarily seed that the group can seed their culture to her. So you know what? Let's be nice to this person who's clearly very sensitive. Okay, we won't talk about politics, right? And so they're basically saying we will allow you to enforce your echo. We will create the echo chamber you want, you clearly want while you're here. And then after you leave, we'll talk about how much of a baby you are. So that's and then the third option. The second option that the group has, if Lola issues that challenge to the culture, is to stand up for their culture and say, I don't know why you're so upset. I don't know why you're so upset. Nothing bad happened. And just be like, sorry, we're still going to talk about this. This is a you problem. And that's the culture being like, nope, we're staying in Idea Lab tonight. Sorry. If you want to leave, you can leave or whatever. And none of those are bad because even in the second scenario where Heidi's, it's not permanent. They're just going to not invite Lola over next time because that, you know, she sucks. Like she ruined the conversation. You know, let's be nice. Let's, you know, we don't have to like, we're not going to see her again probably. Let's not like, you know, bully her about them. Let her have her way. So either one, any of these are fine, right? But then we apply this to another scenario, like at your workplace where people can't just not invite you because you're your colleagues with them or at a, you know. in a classroom or whatever, somewhere where everyone's stuck and where it's pretty inappropriate to try to enforce your echo chamber upon everyone. So that's what we get into later in the chapter, but first we're just getting the core idea here. So I'm gonna now, then after talking about Heidi and Lola, I do a diagram, which is what we're gonna do now to generalize this idea of a low rung thinker, a social bully in a high rung environment, because they're invited for dinner or whatever. I love Seth Godin. Love. I think he's incredibly wise and articulate and funny and smart and great. His blog is fantastic. And I love his talks. Okay. All right. So how do I want to do this? I hear words in the music. And I do not like words in the music when I'm trying to work. So we're going to move past this one. This is a little funky for my taste as well. Let's go back to Old Faithful here, the old playlist from earlier. Maybe we should try something. It's late. See, my worry with trying Spotify music was that it's gonna, YouTube AI will literally like recognize it and shut it down. And I'm not trying to, you know, do something bad against like a license. I got permission from these artists to play their music and I just don't think YouTube AI knows that because they had to, you know, I don't think that they have the ability to tell YouTube AI well. the owner of the music usually does anyway i'm gonna try playing some spotify and if it shuts us down for the night it shuts us down and we'll learn our lesson tomorrow okay let's go for some um i have this big list of video game music um but i'm really into this new so michel is wrote wrote the zelda and chill pokey and chill plays which i love and his brother Jacoby, whose music name is Jokabi. I recently discovered him and I really enjoy his stuff as well. So let's turn on some Jokabi here. Chiltendo, it's Chiltendo. I'm gonna turn this on and okay. So this music is gonna be a little less cool and like hip hoppy, but I think it's a delight. Okay. Yeah, so if we're shut down, I don't think we'll get shut down. This isn't like, you know, I don't think, I doubt we're going to get shut down for this. If it does shut down, just know that I will start a new live stream. And so five minutes later, you can just go back to youtube.com slash weep.y slash live, which is always the URL that will take you to here. And I'll be back. We're going to, we're playing, we're living on the edge right now. Okay, so what's this here? This is this cloud. is my depiction of culture. To me, culture is like an invisible cloud in the room that sets the social rules. So the cloud can inflict shame lightning bolts on people, it can inflict rewards on people and brownie points, give brownie points to people, right? And every culture, if you're with your spouse, if you're with your group of friends, if you're in your classroom or your workspace, or there's a political party, you know, on the biggest scale, these all have a culture. You know, the big thing with Will Smith at the Oscars, right, was that there's a culture there that he violated. He did something that the culture cloud, you know, zapped him for. Maybe it didn't zap him hard enough and people were debating. What they're really debating is like, what should the culture be and how should the culture react to something that seems to go against it? So I think we could depict this with a cloud. And green in the book and in the series means hierarchy. you know, greenish blue is high wrong while, um, while orange is lower wrong, right? And so I'm going to depict a high wrong environment. Oh, right. Because, oh no, this is going to ruin my cloud. See this for anyone who missed it. This is what it looks like on the blog, but in the book, the colors look like this. So I have to, it looks so muddy. It looks, look how, this is supposed to be like a glow of, of, of light and high rungness. And instead, how do we fix this? What a bummer. What a bummer. Maybe I can make the color a little different somehow. Whatever, it's better than the alternative. I was, I got, people were trying to talk me into having it be a black and white book. Just not an option. The colors have so much meaning in this book. So at least we get our colors, even if they're not pretty. Maybe I'll just make it a little bluer, but then, I want, I could just make high rung, because green is the, light green is the one that really just doesn't work. See, normally I'd be like in happy land here, but It's bright. It's really like bright, but it's a bit yellow bright yellow and bright orange are fine It's the bright green and bright blue and in this don't work very well. Okay, whatever. You know what this is this is a Good enough moment. That's my mantra to not be a perfectionist. Okay, so we'll just make it a light thing Now what's gonna so this is a high-rung culture So this is a someone who likes this is a dinner party or a college campus or wherever where the prevailing culture in this particular, you know, that we're depicting is high wrong meaning. You know what it means. It means open to new ideas and no one is punishing anyone for saying the wrong thing. And it's searching for truth ultimately. And what are we doing with this now? So I want to bring four people in. I think I'm just going to use, see, here we are. Oh, damn it. There's no way to get this back in there, is there? That sucked. I don't know how to get a tab back in Pixelmator. Okay, so this for the unacquainted is my scratch pad where I put commonly used things. Okay, let's go back to our cloud here. And now we're going to make three green people. Maybe make this all a little bigger. I think we do four green people. Make a little pentagon of people. You might recognize this as Zelda. All of this music is video game Nintendo music that a very talented musician has taken from very low-res kind of silly and made it very delicious. Okay, and so we've got four high-rungers hanging out in a high-rung environment. All good. And now we've got... I didn't retract shit, by the way. I don't know if you're talking to me, but I didn't retract anything. Okay. To do that. Okay. You think the cyan looks good, huh? Okay. Glad to hear it. All right. Now we're going to change this guy to orange. This is a lowrunger. Darker, a little darker, yeah. All right. Okay. So this is like, you know, the equivalent of Lola at Heidi's party. Okay, so we're gonna make here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna be making two This is what I said Lola has two options accept the culture or try to challenge it in the case of number two There's two branching possibilities the culture exceeds the group seeds the culture to her challenge or the group Stands up for its culture and pushes back and does not let her take over Okay, so in scenario one make this bigger for everyone. I know I keep forgetting that because I know it's smaller on your screen. Let's go back to our psycho drawing and let's get an arrow. Do I like this arrow more? I might like it. No, this arrow. Okay. Let's get this exact. So 180 minus 127.2 is 52.8. So adding that is 232.8. No. No, I should have... No. No, I just have to do 52.8. There we go. Okay, so this is depicting Orange issuing a challenge to the culture, throwing a fit, and trying to bend the culture to their whim. Let me just see if I can make this a little brighter. Okay. Now... All right. So now... This has two branching possibilities Which I'm gonna use different arrows so we don't confuse I'm gonna draw these arrows arrows are hard Now I'm gonna actually not redraw that I'm gonna copy it because if they look different it's gonna look unsatisfying Yeah, okay now in scenario one Which order should we go in here? Okay, so in scenario one green seeds to orange So this changes color The whole culture in the room changes at that moment. It's an intense thing to happen And in this one The culture says fuck off and by the way, I think in a one-off situation It's not bad to do the thing on the left here Sometimes just being nice person and being like look this person's like about to start crying by hearing like this political argument, let's just like be kind, be thoughtful, like, you know, or I think it's totally reasonable to say fuck off because it's your culture and you're being bullied. And it's also reasonable, I think, to just be like, it's because it's one night. If this is just, you know, a family of five, this is a big difference. If this is a family of five, if you're seeing the culture, you know, because one sibling is just super radical, you know, about politics and is going to flip if someone disagrees with him or her. That's a huge loss for that family. That family is, I don't think that family should see. I think that family should try to say, look, you need to grow up. Because it's too big a sacrifice to forever lose your idealab, enjoyment of an idealab with your family and all the benefits of it because one bully. But I think it happens all the time. There's an echo chamber and it's all because of one person. One person is actually the reason that this whole thing has to be an echo chamber. And I think that's... Bullshit. Okay. All right. Let's go here. Let's keep it symmetrical. Now is my 232.8 and my 307.2. All right. So let's add some labels. Maybe all of these could be a little smaller. See, horizontal space, you might as well use it if you have it because nothing's going there anyway. It's vertical that you want to control for and making these smaller will add You know, say four lines of text, right? So let's combine together. Suggestions, skip the first two and just show three. All blue cloud, blue cloud, but orange, around orange, all orange cloud. I'm not sure I get that. Okay. Favorite books? Oh, I love The Fountainhead always just because I think it is, I know a book's great if I think about it all the time still. And like, I think the characters in The Fountainhead are different sides of each of us, in my opinion. But recently, I'm very excited about the culture series, Ian Banks. I've just gotten into it. I'm on my fourth book in the series, and it's fantastic. And then I was obsessed with the Three-Body Problem trilogy. I'm on a sci-fi kick. Okay. So here, green people stand up for their culture. There we go. Move these down a little bit, a little vertical space saved there. This is a little unsatisfyingly wide. Could like go all the way in, but okay. Oh, that looks stupid. Maybe I had it right the first time. I think I had it right the first time. Okay. Where did the idea of the king come from? Well, I was trying to come up with site names for this new blog I wanted to start. And GoDaddy was not being friendly. There was almost nothing was available in a .com. I didn't want some .net, you know. So I was messing around. And one of the many ideas was miniatureking.com, which makes no sense. But neither does the king mascot, right? And so neither does Wait But Why, really. It has a little more of a meaning. But I was like, okay, Miniature King, and he's the mascot of the site, and that's that. And he's very tiny, but very tyrannical. And that was the idea. And I was kind of obsessed with the name just because I really liked the idea of the little angry king. The thing I pictured in the heading was like a little king and then all these like grown up people walking around and he's like up to their ankles, but he's there like all tyrannical. And I do think in King Mustache, King Mustache here, I do think that I did accomplish a little bit of what I was going for. But anyway, I ended up settling on the name Wait But Why. And I was like so bummed that I wasn't going to get to do the king that I decided to make the king a mascot. And he's not a consensual mascot. He never consented. Let's just take a look at him. Also, I almost bought WBW.com, right? Would have been a good domain. He almost went for it, but it was like some insane amount of money. Like they wanted like $300,000 or something ridiculous. So no. But that would be cool, right? Just three letter mail. Don't anyway. So you see. Oh, what did I do? So you see here he is he's he's rolling his eyes. That's the best I could do because he doesn't he doesn't consent to being the mascot on the site, nor to having he's not happy one bit about these little people crawling on him. You know, this is not dignified for a king. And, you know, he's thinking back to his earlier days. It's a feared tyrant and he's depressed. This is what it's come to and so that that's the deal. I don't have a better answer than that unfortunately Yeah, that's what I was my hope is that you'd read the book and be like oh shit I saw that drawing be made and maybe in some cases That was my idea like this thing because I put a bunch of your ideas into these drawings now Okay Do those green arrows look a lot bigger than the three orange arrows they do don't they how did that even happen? Nothing is easy. Oh because I shrunk it down Let's just do that. This is another Zelda. You might recognize. Although I think his brother, Mikel, really did a great job with this particular song. I'll play it after. Okay, I'm happy. I'm done. On to the next. What was your number two book again? I said the Culture series I love. Three Body Problems trilogy. These are just current, so I'm very obsessed with them right now. For the Culture series, I don't know. who's read what but i am currently uh i'm currently reading use of weapons just started it and i finished consider flavors look to win word player of games now i'm reading used to up use of weapons then i'm going to read uh surface detail and then accession and i'm going to stop i'm not going to read all 10. i'm going to move on have i heard of randall monroe of course Huge fan of XKCD. Who's not? Who's not? That's like someone who has found his calling in life. I love when that happens. I'm just like, this person is doing the right thing. He found his calling, and it's nice to see. The green errors are now bigger than the orange ones. Right. Yes, I think I fixed that, right? Yes, I fixed that. I'm glad you pointed that out there. I didn't see it. Why wait, but why? I don't know. I thought it was kind of funny. memorable in a way. And it was like I knew it was going to fit with a lot of what I was going to do, which is kind of like trying to take things we all assume and just question what's going on. So it was kind of the right spirit. I don't know. There's not really a good reason. It was available on GoDaddy. It's a huge part of it. Green people seed their culture to orange person. You're right. You are correct about that. Green people stand up for their culture. Yep. You're right. The really consistent would be stand-up for green culture, but that sounds a little stupid. All right. I'm happy. I'm happy. This is something I would do, by the way, is I would sit here and now that it's kind of fun to do tiny tweaks to a finished drawing, so I would sit there and tweak this, the look, you know, the exact sizes of everything for like 45 minutes, and I'm not going to do that. I'm going to move on. All right. Next, I think we should work on our hypothesis a little bit. So this, for anyone who missed it yesterday, This is, I'm presenting this book very clear words as a hypothesis, right? I'm not a political scientist. I'm not a professional sociologist. I am a blogger taking my best crack at what I think is going on in society and how we can make it better. And I want to make that clear. You know, I don't want, A, I don't want people... to have that expectation and think they're reading an academic book because they're going to be disappointed. It's not an academic book if that's what they're expecting, you know, by a professional. They'll also have more fun than they would have if it were an academic book. And I also don't want people who really like the book to think that, you know, they're reading professional sociology. I want them to be clear that that's not what's going on. So I'm presenting that as a... It's me, a stick figure, gonna hold up this machine. I'm like, this is my hypothesis. So this is representative of the book itself. The ideas in the book. You know, you consider each of these little shapes as maybe one of the concepts in the book. And together, it is, this is my hypothesis. This is what I'm gonna, I've spent six years now, fucking six years, trying to get this right, trying to figure out what I think, refining it, testing it, getting yelled at. refining it more, new research, new events happen in the world, incorporating it all. And this is my best crack, and I'm sure in five years I'll look back and say I was wrong about a bunch of stuff. And that's okay. It's a hypothesis. So this is going to be me showing. This is my hypothesis. I hope you treat it that way, and I hope it makes you think, and you can add on to it with your own ideas. That's the idea. And so I'm trying to draw that now. But this wasn't enough. This is a little bit... The book, you know, let's give the books of credit has a lot more going on than just a few of these shapes So I wanted to make it a little bit more of a thing. So I'm gonna add on more I got sick of this yesterday, which is why I stopped I was like I don't want to do any more of these shapes, but now we can come back and do some more Yes, Tim, you should change the to there Uh-huh I'm down. I think you can go either way, but I think that's good given that I said there in the next one Thank you Cool. Okay, so back to the hypothesis here All right, so this is my 3D doodle basically. And I had an idea. I was going to do a cylinder. Let's just start here. Glad to hear it, Chadwick. Glad that it resonated. That is awesome. So if you want to make something look 3D, and I'm not great at this, but you just add in white in places where light would shine, and then you add a Gaussian blur. And then you can choose how, so this is very faint light, and this is now like, you know, a very, very, you know, shiny room. But I'm going to do just a hint of 3D-ness. And you can get much more involved with using black and white and different, you know, but I don't know how to do that. Or I don't want to spend the time trial and error. Oh, trial, oh, I fucked up. Okay, let me just, let me just color over this. The right side looks stupid because no one's going to see it. It's going to be hidden. So I don't care about it. Now let's go back over here. And now we're going to blur this. And okay. Something's a little weird there, but I don't know. All right, let's first just group these. And now we're going to put it behind everything. And I'm going to try to put it over here. As if it's sticking out of this thing. And now I'm going to change the color because we already have a big black thing above. That blur is a little... Something's off with it. Let's try that again. Maybe it was too much. Alright. Something looks... Oh, I think the black is probably just tricky with this. Okay, let's change the color and see what happens. Alright. I don't want it to be too rainbow-y. So let's stick to the primary colors. Okay, and now I still don't like this too thick. All right Yeah, there we go. I mean part of the issue is that the colors that Light is shining in different places on each of these, but I don't really care This is not supposed to be like yeah Now I think we need some depth Yeah, exactly. It's the wrong perspective compared to the other shapes because it's on the left. So why? Yes. Yes, you are so correct. Right. You would only see. Yes, you're correct. That's why. Right. That's what you'd see. Thank you. Good job. All right. Let me add a little more of this. All right. Yes, that is correct. Because we're looking at it a little bit from the right side. And that was, that's the, I knew something was off. Um, okay. Make the white line go all the way to the left side. I know, I know what you're saying. Okay, fine. I'm laughing because I was like about to do that and I was like, ah, fuck it. But someone else agrees. All right. Now, let's say, we'll do an interesting drawing in a second. Okay. It's like a, Pizza slice. All right. Now, just connect. So the fill works that went to. Why? Oh, I see the problem. Perspective thing. That would be the color on the blog. For this, I kind of like the doll better. Okay, now what's happening with this pizza slice? Why is it here? What does it want? Let me try. Well, now it looks weird. Kind of like it, but it doesn't look it that makes it lose its feeling of a pizza slice going out I have an idea Looks very 2d looks very 2d What is the Penrose triangle Gabriel the C. Oh Interesting this might be above my pay grade, you know, maybe I could like hint at one in the background Let's just start by just seeing No, Vector Stock, you're not invited to this. I'm not gonna steal your image, I'm just gonna copy it. All right. So here's a cool trick in Pixelmator. So you see how this is, if I put it on top. I don't like all that white, right? I wanna get rid of the white and just have the thing behind it. So I can go to Magic Erase, and this is a cool AI, or whatever it is, maybe it's not AI. And it just deletes what I want it to delete, and I can delete the thing in the middle as well. Now, if I wanted to draw my own version of this, where would it go and what would it be doing? Maybe there's a really little one. That's a very central spot for it. I don't know about that. Maybe it's cooler than this green circle. What if it went here in front of that? Ooh, maybe, ooh, okay. Maybe there's a green, maybe it's inside the, let's see, right here. And then maybe I moved the green circle. Okay, I have an idea. What if I change the green circle to like a very light circle? Although I don't... Gray, okay. Let's do this. Let's try this. This can help us get the feeling of depth here. I go like this, and then I do another one, and I'll make it smaller, and then another one, and I'll make it tiny. So something's going on, right? The good news is it's not our problem to know what's going on. That's the reader's problem. We don't care, right? If they want to apply some meaning to this, that's on them. And maybe we can hide some of this behind this thing. Okay. Okay, see? We got something weird going on there. And I kind of like this better than that circle. Now I'm going to have to draw it. I'm going to trace it shamelessly because I don't want to have to try to figure out how to draw this well. So when I would trace something, I put it here and I'll make it, I'll take away some opacity and then I'll just kind of go over it and intentionally be imperfect. So, because I don't like straight lines and stuff. So now I think we'll start with black. All right. Oh, did not mean to do that. Well that last line really makes it all come together doesn't it? It's a little squiggly, but let's see now we get rid of the one behind it and Now it's a little squiggly, but it's kind of cool. Isn't it? That was a good idea Damn you were still drawing. Yes, by the way This is nothing the way I work way procrastinators work is I will do it one hour of work a day for five days not Having fun. I'm sitting here trying to work and just like staring at one drawing or just unable to actually do it and Then I get into a zone and I'll do 14 straight hours and that's how my work gets done Usually every wait-but-why post on the site happened in an all-nighter the night before I was like desperately trying to get it posted Okay, I'm just trying to remember who Gabriel I wanted to give Gabriel an extra shout out because this was such a good idea Because you got what I'm going for which is just kind of like twisty and cool and weird But it was way cooler than what I had done because I traced Something that's actually good. That's part of why okay So let's now what do we want to do with this? I don't think we leave it like this and we could but I think it has to be something so I think we fill it in Let's just try a few things here sample layers Let's try some bright yellow now I could do all yellow Just see what that would look like for a second. And I can do it where it's not like pushing on the lines like this, but I think it might look cool to do that. So I'm leaving it for a second. Ooh, kind of like that. Okay, let's duplicate that. All right, let's just copy this for a second. Now let's undo, paste, group, and save that. And let me try something else here. Yellow, green, orange, maybe? No, the orange is next to the orange. Can't really do good reds here. All right, and then maybe some blue. It's kind of cool. I kind of think the blue is not the right color, though. What if two are yellow, one's purple? I don't know about purple. Let's try it, though. Because I think when you're in primary color zone, you know, red, yellow, green, blue, I think it, like, ooh, kind of looks good, actually. Hmm, don't love the purple. Don't hate the purple, but don't love the purple. Think of like, what if it's a really light blue? Kind of like that. This is a great idea. Okay, now let's try something. So just to see, so this is one idea here, right? Oops. But I could do it in a way that preserves the things much more by putting the fill behind it. So let's just see what we think of the difference. So. I think I'm going to like it the other way because I kind of like how it makes everything gooier. But see here, it perfectly, it gets behind it. So it's not fucking with the outline at all. The other one was in a way that I might like, but... Is that the blue I used? I used this blue. So you see, here we have, it's crisper, right? Oh, that looks pretty good. It's nice and crisp. But if I, and then this way, you see... is much gooier. I don't know. Gooey kind of is cool looking here, I think. And it like kind of fits like a gooey one of these versus the crisp one. You see? I think from far away, the gooey one might be better because I worry that this one just looks like a drill from far away. And the gooey is a little brighter. Yeah. Madeline agrees she likes the GUI version. Let's stick with GUI for now. I am gonna add I'm gonna just Fill in any kind of cool. What would this look like in the blog? Yeah, okay. Looks fine. That was a great idea. Thank you Gabriel. Okay now No, no. Okay, and I also like the the change down here But but it's still a little like flat Maybe that's okay. I like the controversial gooeyness. Alright, so now what? Okay, I think I'm gonna do a curly Q. No, no eraser, because then I don't want it to look like an object. Actually, what you missed is earlier, when this wasn't here yet, that and this part and this, I realized we had a serious problem because it looked like a robot. It was like a little hammerhead robot guy, which is part of why I went and did all this stuff. How many people on the Waporite team? Two, me and Alicia. And probably needed a third person, but we are trying to manage. I want to keep it small because hiring a bunch of people would be awesome. It gets a bunch of creative people, get a lot more stuff being created. But now I'm managing people with my time, which is not what I want to be doing at this time in my life. I want to be creating stuff myself. So that's kind of the thought. Probably could add someone. And then Andrew is my best friend, longtime business partner. He co-founded WayPoY with me, but he's working on other projects. So he's involved in that. He'll, you know, he'll give me an edit or feedback before something, and we'll talk about the picture together, but he's not working on WayPoY with his time. Okay. Okay, I have an idea. I have two ideas. I'm going to put a little ring around this thing. I'm going to put two rings. All right. Okay, so now I'm gonna change the colors. I'm gonna put yellow for this. How do we like that? That's a little neon. Oh, white. Alright. Do we like that? I don't know. Not sure how I feel. I'm gonna show the other Zelda playlist. Maybe this should maybe there should just be one. Maybe I don't like any of them. Okay Forget that now the other thing I wanted to do is a curly Q. Oh No, now it looks like TNT or dynamite actually, but I could fix that. I'm not sure what's happening here, but This is the version of that other song that I like the most I think the artist Mikael crushed it. We're gonna move on to something interesting in a minute. I'm not gonna do this all night So I don't know what that goo is on that thing. I don't know. I don't know about that goo. But I don't not know about that goo either, you know? So, we're getting somewhere. I think one more session tomorrow. And we can get this into a form where... Man, I wish the whole thing were as cool as this fucking thing that Gabriel suggested. That thing is so much cooler than all the other things in it. Goddamn. Um... You know, imagine if it was one big like super intricate thing like that But it were all like like a million things like that that would be awesome, but I just It would take me like a week and I'm not gonna spend a week on that You know That black thing on the left is unsatisfying, but we'll see where it pans out I might make this green thing much wider and make you know Okay, I'm gonna move on. Yeah, sorry a song I don't know Zelda well also I don't know that but it's good stuff. Yeah, goo will look confusing printed in the book. That is definitely true. Unless I make it like much longer and I want to do like a dolly clock thing you know but I need to make it like a much bigger canvas for the black thing to hang over because otherwise it'll look like a... it'll look bad. This is a book page don't forget. That's just gonna look like a black spot. You won't see any of the cool things. Yeah. Something. It's something. It's something we've done. I don't know about it, but it is a thing. Okay. It's time for the night's final nicotine gum. It's time for the final procrastination, second to last procrastination session. Yeah, dolly. Yeah, one ring. Yeah, angle. I like that. We'll come back to it tomorrow. Do I plan on streaming after this week? Definitely. I love streaming. It seems it's a new fun thing. And we'll come up with interesting ways to use this kind of new medium. Okay, let's procrastinate for a short amount of time. It's 9.25, let's procrastinate till 9.35. Then we'll do one more drawing session, and then we'll do one final procrastination. Night cat. And we'll say goodbye. Okay. No, I was never a smoker. It's like a little boost with the half-life of two hours. as opposed to caffeine, which is a boost with a half-life of five hours. So if I had a cup of coffee right now, it would take five or seven minutes to kick in, first of all, ten minutes. And then I would be awake at two in the morning. Three in the morning, wide awake. This, by midnight, one, will not be a big deal for me. Okay. All right, so we did that. We've done some good things today. See, it feels like we're going so slowly. But if you do a long day, It adds up. It adds up. You know, we've done probably six and we're going to maybe get to nine tonight. Okay. Oh, we were going to procrastinate. I forgot. Okay. That felt like procrastination. That hypothesis. That's the issue. Oh no, wrong thing. You guys, if you weren't here this morning, you missed Abbey Road webcam. You can do some of that tomorrow too, maybe. Um, all right. So here's an idea. Oh, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to do Wordle. I haven't done Wordle today. And... If you want to do Wordle for today and you haven't done it, then I'm telling you you should go do it now and come back when you're done because I'm going to spoil it for you. I'm going to unhook this thing. Okay. So we're going to turn off the iOS capture for now. And I'm going to beam onto my screen today's Wordle. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Shit. Oh, what did I do? Are we still streaming? Yeah, we're still streaming. Did I fuck up? I might have just fucked up. Apparently that was not an option. Yeah. What did I do? Music stopped. But I'm still here, right? Okay, I'm back. Okay, that did not go as planned. Let's get the music back on. Okay. So that did not work. Okay, I'm gonna use it on my phone. But I will... Okay. I don't want to see anything. Okay. I know how the game is played. Okay, I'm going to do it on my phone so I still have my stats and stuff, but whatever I do there, I'll do here. Okay. So I'm going to start with S-L-A-T-E. Okay. Sleep. Okay. By the way, I came up with a golf scoring method for Wordle that my friends and I have been using, which is that a four is a par. So if you get a four, it's like, meh, okay. You know, it's whatever. You didn't mess up, but you didn't do great. A three is a birdie. It's like, yes, you crushed it. Two is like, you know, a rare huge victory. Usually pretty lucky. A three is like the big goal. If you can get a three. A four is like fine, especially if it's a hard one. If it's a hard one, a four is a victory. A five is like, unless it's really hard, it's like, no, you fucked up. And a six is just a disaster. Okay. So, okay. This is good. We got three letters. So what are the options here we could do? It could be... It's usually good to just think of... To think of a few things it could be, right? And that helps you figure out what the next guess is. So it could be Tidal, right? T-I-D-A-L. Okay, it could be Tidal. It could be Atlas. Okay, Tidal. No, it could be Atlas because we use an S. It could be ATOL. Probably not ATOL, but it could be ATOL. A-T-O-L-L. It could be L-O-A-T... No, it couldn't be LOATH. It couldn't be LOATH. LATCH. It could be LATCH. L-A-T-C-H. So title and LATCH, right? Now the question is we want to test some other vowels. Okay. The Ys are sneaky, you know. Could it be like tally? Tally. So it could be tally, title, latch, ch. Can we test a ch, a d, an i? Child. No, but I don't want to test another. I don't want to do another l. Although sometimes it's not too bad to do one because you can test the l in that position. Let's do child. Let's not think about this forever. Child. Although, you know what I don't like is why am I doing a C and an H, right? If the C is, if the H is there, I know the C is probably there, right? Or I guess it doesn't have to be, but fuck it. I'm not going to think that hard about this one. Child, sometimes I'll think harder. Okay, so let's put it here too before I look. Okay, so we're getting some good testing here, including we're going to see the L in another position. Awful. Hideous. Hideous. Okay, but we did learn some stuff. We know the L is not there either. Fuck. So it's not Tidal. It's not Latch. It's not Atoll. My god. Okay, well, what are some common letters I haven't tried yet? I haven't tried an R. I haven't tried an N. So, uh, Talon. Ooh, Talon. I bet it's Talon. I'm gonna say it's Talon. Is that too- Am I jumping the gun here? I might be jumping the gun. I mean, Talon's a good guess for sure. Haven't tried an O yet. It's the common letters, but I feel like... I'm going a little quickly here. Baldi? No, has to have a T. Damn it! That second guess sucked. Ugh, shit. Question is, should I go for Talon or should I try Talon? I'm saying it weird. Or should I try a couple things? Should I try something else? Not looking at any... Any chat until this is done in case someone is spoiling it somehow or giving me hints. I'm very serious about Wordle. By the way, my golf score, right? So every day you get a minus three, that's minus one. Every time you get a five, that's a plus one, for example. After 90 or 91, I am at minus 18 overall, which is pretty good. I'm averaging a 3.8. So I think it's good. Maybe you're doing better. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I'm gonna try Talon and see what happens. I'll put it in here and then I'll put it in here. This is gonna suck if it's not even close because I'm gonna be in big trouble for my four. Okay. Okay. Alright. Okay. Okay, we got good info there at least. Now we should be able to get it because now we know the L is at the beginning or the end. We know the T. is in the third or fifth spot and we know there's an N which is huge to get a fourth letter is huge and we know where the A is. So what could it, what could this be now? It could be, so if the L is at the end, oh natal, it's natal, it's natal. It's natal, right? It's gotta be natal. I'm gonna be livid if it's not natal. Boom. Okay, you know what? See, that's an example of a four I'm happy with. Because the ones that have only one vowel repeated, that's tricky. Natal's a kind of a weird word. You know, if it's an easy one, like when it's like stare or something, you know, or like if it's like, I don't know, just like, you know, prose, one of these easy ones, then I'm pissed when I get a four. Not pissed, I'm just kind of like, meh. But this was hard. I feel okay about it. I might have been able to get it in 3 if my second guess had been better, but there was no way to make that better. Now let's look and see. Hard mode? No, no, I don't like hard mode. Actually, hard mode to me is less skill. It takes away strategy. It takes strategy out of the game. I don't find it as... Yes, you're likely to get a higher score, but it's not like the good kind of hard. It's just like more... I don't know. I feel like it's better to have all the tools available, all the spots available to test with, and then... you know to see the best you can do there so i think it's a better strategic game than non-hard mode plus 22 after 50. yeah i i am better than you um but i also might spend more time on it sometimes i think you know some people just kind of some people just kind of throw one in throw another one in and then they try to get it i i really like think about each one um here are my scores so you can see and there's one birdie that that should be added here one three that on the day that new york times took over it didn't count that day which is infuriating because i got a three So I have two eagles, two twos, 28 threes, 46 fours, 13 fives and only one six. Six was on, it was like shake, you know? So it's like shale, shade, shame, shape. And I lost that dice roll and got it on the fourth guess. Okay, moving on. Is this fuzzy? I feel like it's gotten a little fuzzy, but... I don't know. Maybe just my eyes have gotten fuzzy. Okay, I'm going to open this back up and see if we can get this going again. Symanteau, don't do it. Symanteau is an awful game. It takes like 30 minutes. And then for, and it's like, I don't even really know like what the rules are. Like, I don't, I don't really know why some things are, they're saying you're closer than others. I don't like it at all, but I have done it a few times. Okay, let's add an iOS camera back in and, or maybe I can just, Maybe I could just use the one I've got. Let's see. Thanks Pablo. Glad to hear it. Yeah, it's not gonna let me... Oh yeah, it is. Sick. I had low hopes there. Okay. Let me just put this back in its clamp. Angle it. There we go. Zoom in a little. I feel like that was a good little procrastination, right? I said 430, 935, 940, not bad. Okay. There's our canvas. All right. Okay, okay. Title. Secrets. We're still making final decisions, and I think we have a good title, but I don't want to say it because titles always sound stupid the first time you hear them, and no one will like it. And then I'd rather you just hear it the first time when you actually hear about the book, and you're like, eh. And then like 10 times you've heard it later, you're like, oh yeah, that book, you know? That's how I feel. And the cover, by the way, let me just tell you something. I went weird with the cover. I came up with three cover ideas. One was normal. It looks like a book. I like it. One was a little weirder, busy, more way but ye. Looks less like a book. And one was fucking strange. Just super weird. And 80% of people I talked to hated it, but 20% loved it. And I went with it. So you're going to see a very weird book cover. Like, it doesn't look like any other book. It looks like it's gonna, you're not gonna, you're gonna be very appalled. Either delighted or appalled by when you see the cover of this book. I went super weird. I don't know why. It's probably a dumb thing to do to be risky with the cover of your book, but I just liked the idea and that's that. Right? My camera's fuzzy, I know. I don't really know why. Maybe let me just try to, should I, right? The camera is officially fuzzy. Let's just redo this quickly. It's also procrastination. It's better than drawing. Okay, I'm going to get rid of this. Now I'm going to do a new one. Much better. Now, how did I do this? Oops. I'm like here at the farthest that way. And then sometimes I'm over here. So we want to have that open. And then from all the way over here, we want to have it to there. Right? I'm starting to learn how to use OBS. It's great software. I'm thrilled with it. I didn't know something so useful existed. I guess I don't need to be that far over. Okay. Yeah, I had no idea streaming software was actually so awesome. I just thought they were magical people who streamed and had everything going like that. Cool. All right. Unfuzzy. Okay, so here's where we are. We are on... We just procrastinated, now we're on draw. And then we're gonna do one more sesh, and then we're gonna do goodnight procrastination. Which is what we did last night as well. Okay, let's finish with a bang, right? Incredibox. Back from your soccer game. That sounds like a lot of running. Sounds like a lot of running. I used to play soccer when I was like... When I didn't realize that you could just not do running games and that was okay Tennis is like I like I prefer skiing, you know running soccer. You're just running too much. I don't like it Okay, when do we get to see it? That's like I do you know finishing all this going to copy editing and some point it'll be like time to like and I don't know when it might be summer something like that Okay. All right. Draw a session. Let's do it. Tomorrow we're going to have a huge day too, by the way. Tomorrow's day three of three. Big day. I made a big list of everything I wanted to get done. All the drawings I wanted to get done during these three days, and we have a lot to do, but we can get close, I think. Okay. I'm going to be ambitious and try to... There's four more... So there's three interludes in the book and seven chapters. And an intro and a conclusion. Interlude number three has a lot of drawings and we had none done as of yesterday and we did the boss and Another one the social media comic. I think we should do this for more drawings in the interlude one is a quick one I Think we should try to do three of the four maybe even if we're on a roll all four And then I think we can we can if we can get that done then I think with a big day tomorrow We can maybe get to the end of the the things I wanted to do. All right. I know I said I was gonna do 15 drawings, but I went and actually looked at what I had to do. And I actually said, okay, this morning I listed everything. And I realized that a lot of the things I was thinking about are like condensing. Yesterday we condensed a few comics that were long on the blog, like the Boxer comic. We condensed those, right? That's an item. But I was like, let's do the hard things on the stream. The things like this, this thing you're on this looking at now, that's brand new, right? Let's do the brand new things. That's more interesting probably for you to watch than for me to just take a comic and try to like position it correctly. So I limited it to like the hard new things and that means that 15 would just take too long. Those take a lot longer. So I said, let's do fewer of the real ones and try to knock out so many of the real ones here. That's my reasoning. Okay. Tomorrow we're gonna do something, we're gonna draw one of the major characters of the book. One of the major things that comes back again and again, that got rewritten, got written into the book that wasn't in the series. It's the counterpart to this guy. Where is my mouse? Oh. So this big dumb orange guy. This big dumb orange guy here. I fucked up. Okay. This is a very big... This became a bigger character in the book. This is what I call a golem. It's the low-rung giant. It's the big, higher-emergent entity that forms out of low-rungness. When primitive minds work together, and they sniff the pheromones, and they start acting tribal, and they form this entity that's called the golem, and that's this. Okay, it's a big part of the book. Well, what about a high-rung giant? In the... In the series, I have a high-rung giant. It just looks like a normal stick figure with a glowing head. And I was like, no, let's make a real new thing. So we're going to draw one of the major things tomorrow, the high-rung giant. But we're not doing that now. That's too ambitious for right now. But let's try to knock out some of these interludes. Okay, so the first one is easy. Let's just do this easy one first, because the first one builds on something we did yesterday, and it combines it with an idea from earlier in the book. So yesterday we made a boss, a mean boss. Okay. So this boss is an example of someone who's breaking the liberal. You know, we're talking a lot today about idea supremacy. Idea supremacy to me breaks the unwritten liberal rules, right? Like you're not violating a law when you shut down a speaker on campus or whatever. Do I have two mustaches again? Why do I have so many mustaches by accident? All right. It's a little high. Yeah. So idea supremacy to me is every good liberal, and I don't mean liberal like left progressive liberal, that's the American usage. I mean liberal like general classic liberal, which is any, most Americans are liberal in that they believe in free speech, human rights. They believe in the process of, even aiming for equality of opportunity. even though it's hard to achieve it. They believe in, um, um, like liberal science, the idea of, you know, uh, peer review, all of this is under the big tent of liberalism. Um, and, uh, and liberalism has laws. First amendment, right. Is, is, is an example. Um, but, um, It's based on freedom. So you can't use laws to achieve liberalism. You need two things. You need laws, liberal laws plus liberal norms, like the liberal spirit. And one example I use is you can free speech. You need the First Amendment. If you don't have the First Amendment, you know, the government's going to punish speech. Now, of course, no one has free speech. But in a country where the First Amendment, all it really does is ensure the legality of free speech. To actually have free speech, you also need to be inside of a culture of free speech. And if you're inside of a culture where if you say something, you get ostracized, you don't really have free speech. Yes, you technically have legal free speech, but you're not free to speak in a way that's... It doesn't foster free speech, right? So this is a big theme in the book. You need liberal laws. And you need the people, you need the people in the culture to do a lot of the work, to complete that second piece of the puzzle. Idea supremacy is an example of something that is not breaking liberal laws, so it's legal, but it is breaking the liberal spirit, right? Idea supremacy, which is something that basically uses a cultural cudgel, not a, you know, the government can use a cudgel. and put you in jail or execute you for saying the wrong thing. So it's not that, but it is a cultural cudgel it uses. And that's against the liberal spirit. And anyone who is a good liberal, I think, has an obligation to stand up to it when it's happening. That's different than being a social bully. You can be a social bully in a liberal country and you're not violating anything. But idea supremacy is actually fucking with everyone else's liberal rights. So... The same idea goes for this boss. Now, this boss is sexually harassing people. Now, you can say that that is illegal, and in some ways, you know, if you're assaulting someone, it's illegal. But there's a lot of ways a boss can be kind of, you know, making lewd comments or whatever. That is not, government's not going to arrest him for that, right? The liberal laws can only go so far. But to really have a boss get put in his place for... being harassy, you need also a liberal spirit, right? And so, again, a good liberal should see a situation like this boss and should stand up to it, try to expose it, and try to actually get it to stop. Which brings us to one of the core drawings from both the series and the book. When's the stream starting tomorrow? I want to say noon, but it could be one, you know, but somewhere around there, around lunchtime, and I should go till at least this time tomorrow night. All right. So let's bring out this cord drawing here. Where did I put it? Okay, here it is. So in the U.S., you kind of have your safety circle and you have your rights. The safety is your inalienable rights that no one's allowed to ever invade. It doesn't matter if you're in private or public or wherever. If someone invades your inalienable rights and actually puts you in danger, they're doing something illegal. But there's also rights like freedom of speech that... is that kind of a different kind of thing. So I explain this, and I go pretty thorough in this in the book. But I want to actually show this concept with that boss. Not this one. Right, and my point here is, with this drawing, is that the green lines will cross. Sometimes your freedom of something is budding against someone else's freedom, and then there's a nuanced set of rules. Or sometimes it's just, you know, people have to work it out for themselves. What's and so but what's not allowed What's not allowed is this when someone's green circle and they would their rights when that when their kind of behavior is actually Invading someone else's red circle now. It's not okay. This is not fine, right? So I'm gonna make a version of this Let's just copy all this over boss circles All right, so let's put our circles here in the much less colorful version You don't need these anymore. Now let's get our boss. Okay, let's do a couple things here. First, let's flip this whole thing. Now let's get rid of the dudes. What the hell just happened? I always double up somehow. All right. Yeah, unnamed layers suck. Agreed, wowder. I want to actually have audio versions of all the posts. But I do think I need to read it myself. Maybe I don't, but I think I do. Okay, he's not invisible. He's not, I need to color in his, let's just, now, let's just remember the context here. Okay, so I think the point here is just to show that this boss is doing something that is violating the liberal rules. He's violating not just, you know. someone's speech but he's actually violating someone's kind of inalienable rights um maybe it's not inalienable but he's violating something sacred that is is is beyond just like well you know it's a free country it's well that's the point is when you go inside the red zone it's no longer the free country thing doesn't doesn't help you anymore so i'm just going to draw an employee here let's use the same thickness it's about right wow I think that'll work. It's a first time. I love the first time head circle successes. It's like I get it about one out of eight times I nail it on the first try. Straight lines is another thing. A little curvy. It's okay. Hair is another hard thing. I'm not good at it. Might be as simple as that. The face shape is not actually all I thought it was, is it? Now, is it weird that he's facing forward? I don't want to have to redraw him. That's the problem. He's not an easy, you know, he's a whole ordeal. Oof, this is a disaster. No, this won't do at all, will it? I guess that's fine. I think I should make her angry, you know, not just taken aback. Oof, hair is so hard. This looks, the hair looks stupid. No, no, no, this is all going badly. This is why I'm not a professional hairstylist. This is, I would just mangle people pretty badly. Okay, that's gonna go in the good enough pile for now. Now let's make her pissed off Yeah, that's good enough, right? She doesn't like his invasion of her red circle Yeah, that's facing her enough, right? Oh, thanks. Glad you like the Preet. Preet's cool. I never actually knew much about him, but he's quite accomplished as it turns out and Seemed like he was a big procrastinator, which always you know It always endears someone to me. Okay, so here we are. Now, this is a little wide. This is the thing. So I'm going to make the whole... See, we're going over my lines here, which is illegal for this book. So I'm going to go ahead and group all of this together and shrink it down just a bit. And now we have it. Okay, so that was the easy one of the four. Let's move on. Okay, next. So, the next thing is a diagram that is trying to show, so what this is, what you're seeing here is kind of a point B in what is actually like an ABC. So, I'm just going to show you here for a second. So, it's like, oh, this boss is sexually harassing here, right? Sexually harassed. Now, we have Twitter comes along, and it's like, you can't do that anymore. We'll put him over here. And Twitter speaks truth to power and she tweets about it and so do her co-workers and it becomes a whole thing. And this guy gets fired, right? So boss, you know, bad boss fired. Yay, right? And so the y-axis here is justice. But you see this is point A and this is point B and that's been, you know, what we have is that social media coercion you know turned into this really great thing and it helped a lot of people take down bad guys you know and and protect people and and it enhanced justice but then what happens is there's a whole new group of people who are super excited about having taken down the big bad boss and they say who's next and they start looking for victims and this is how you end up with whatever you want to call it is cancel culture or you call it like you know, just mobs or whatever, but you can go this further. And what happens is, as this goes further, you come back down the Justice Hill. And now you're having kind of like unfair firings, right? The things that the person wasn't really actually violating anyone's rights. Most people in the company don't think they should have been fired. Well, almost everyone in the company would agree this guy should be fired. Now we're starting to fire people who really don't deserve it and who are really just offending a very small kind of... uh you know particular set of sensibilities that do not apply to everyone and that's bad right and so you can go too far and and and that that's the thing is like you take a good thing too far and you end up in a bad place so this boss is showing the good thing because it's again this is it's adding nuance like you can't say um you know cancel culture is is a bad term because that boss getting fired is not cancel culture Right? This is a good thing. But in other cases, it's not a good thing. And cancel culture like wraps all of that together. Where now anyone who gets punished, you know, for doing something bad and it gets spread on social media, it makes, it's like how I said political correctness is not a good term because idea supremacy is bad. But like general civility is not bad in a liberal sense. And those things right now are being grouped under this term political correctness, which is why you have it's hard to when you criticize the idea of supremacy part of it, you sound like you're also criticizing that don't say racial slurs part of it. When you criticize cancel culture, you sound like you're also criticizing this boss getting what he deserves. And so I'm trying to get rid of terms like political correctness and cancel culture that have they're hugely bloated. First of all, a lot of a lot of people are using those words in bad faith. um strawmanning the use of those words um and it's just uh it's hard to have conversations so i'm trying to create a little um a way to see that the nuance between the what i'm talking about and the other thing okay um so now we're going to draw this kind of diagram in a way that's obviously much better than this okay so we're going to call this the twitter hill how about that okay so twitter hill Um, now, so we gotta just draw ourselves a little. This should not be, this should not be too involved here. Let's just be simple. I did not see it, but I should check it out. Although I don't like to read too much about stuff I'm writing about. I like to read enough to keep up with the discourse, but if I read too much, I'm gonna probably like want to, you know, add things and, um. And then I'll want to take a quote from it and quote them and reference it. And I need to, that ship has sailed with this book. So at this point I'm trying to just finish and then read all the nice takes on everything. But yes, I'm glad other people are addressing this because it's really important. Okay. I have an idea for how we can color code this. I need to draw a white line. I'm going to use a white line to fill in to connect these two. And now I'm going to fill. That did not work. Okay, my white line isn't doing its job. Let's make it. Okay, that'll be consistent with the colors we're using. Okay, now how do I create blog posts? First of all, what you're seeing today, what you're seeing here, is a window into kind of how I create, which is, you know, a little bit painstakingly perfectionist. But like not that when I'm in the right zone, I'm in the nice middle ground. But it starts with just curiosity. What do I think is interesting or important? This book is more important than interesting. I think it's also interesting. I think, you know, the framework is really interesting. And I think if you're interested in current events, I think it's going to be really interesting. But the thing that drove this is I'm like, this is important. Like this is we have a problem. And none of the other things I write about are going to matter if we don't like get our shit together more as a society. Anyway, so that's the initial driver. And then I just learn a lot. And then I think about how if I were going to either it's procrastination or something. And then I just reflect on what's really going on in my head. Or it's like, you know, SpaceX or cryonics or AI or something and then I'll just read and learn and follow my curiosity and then two or three weeks later I'll say okay if I if I could go back how could I have learned this in two or three hours instead or how could I teach to someone and I'll try to package what I learned in a much more efficient much more enjoyable way to take people on the same path I just went down but in a more fun quicker way than it took me that's kind of the the general idea and then you know and then I just try to not like be someone I'm not. So I try to admit how much I do know and what I don't know and acknowledge that I'm just a blogger trying to figure this out myself. So I try not to make sure it's clear that I don't proclaim more expertise than I have. Okay, so more use of the digital cudgel. So this is a term that comes in the book. The digital cudgel is like what was created with social media. This cudgel is this idea. this thing here. And, you know, King Mustache, who is a character in the book, he has a, his cudgel actually executes people, right? But there's a lot of forms of cudgels and social pressure can be one. And then maybe I should incorporate this now. And then something like Twitter comes out and Facebook and the others, and they create a new kind of cudgel, a new source of power. And again, going up this hill, that power can be used for great you know, for really good things. It's protected a lot of people and it's making the world more just and safer in a lot of ways. It can also be abused and we have to see the difference. So that's the digital cudgel. It's a little bigger. 50. Okay. So now we can do a little dotted line. Oh, it's hidden. Let's try something. Yeah, I would say I'm a perfectionist. Just in that I have to battle. What perfectionist means to me, it means like if there's a certain level of quality that makes sense for the project, it's that there's a part of your brain that wants to do more than that. And in a way that is not serving the project, it actually makes the art worse. And it makes you indecisive and it makes you want to procrastinate and it makes it much harder and worse than it has to be. So this is not a good thing. Now, a certain amount of it, it's a little like this hill. A certain amount of perfectionism, you know, makes the work better, better, better, better. And it serves you. And then too much and it goes down the hill. And so I think when someone says they're a perfectionist, if they have a problem, it means they're on the right side of this hill. Some people the other way, where I think actually they'd be served by maybe like slowing down a little bit and making things higher quality. I think a lot of art could be better if it were higher quality. Movies, a lot of movie writing. Some blog posts I read some books I read I think they could have been a little less anxious to get it out and a little bit harder on themselves and spent a little longer on it and gotten more feedback on it and toiled a little more with it And then there's other people who have the opposite problem where they don't ship anything because they're they just can't it's not perfect enough and And so the ideal place to be is on top of the hill and I would say I'm somewhere in the middle of the right side Which is part of why this book took longer than it should like it You know, at some point, I could write one book over the next 50 years, but I don't want it. That's not a good plan, right? Like to write the perfect book and spend 50 years. That's not a good plan. So, all right, let's see. Yeah, the Zelda music rocks. WordPress, yeah, WordPress for backend, which I don't love, but it does its job. Taking down these labels would make more sense. When you see the writing. The concept of a manufactured villain is something I get into. Something like that. Blue bubble functionality was... We had a developer that we just asked to do stuff and he did it. And I truly have no idea how he did it. So I can't help you with that. But it didn't seem like it was that hard. The reason we... I used to work on Blogger. Which is... Nice because you don't have to worry about like hosting or anything but on the other hand You're beholden to them and they could shut you down or you're kind of reliant on Google versus WordPress and you're very Free it's just open source software So that's one reason I switched and then you have to pay for hosting and you crash and you have to it's your problem not Google's But you have independence, but more importantly for me is that Every developer works with WordPress. So when I was a blogger, if I wanted something, they had no idea how to use it. Or Squarespace was awful for a blog. It was super like, that's better for like a restaurant making their menu or a website. But with WordPress, I could say, can you make like a footnote that looks like this and it's this color? And, you know, can you make a blue box or even a bluer box inside? And I can, you know, and. Every developer is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's easy because they all know, they all speak that language. So that was a good reason. I don't use Obsidian for note keeping. I'm sorry you inspected my code. I'm sure it's hideous. It's not. One of our ambitions for the next year, in addition to starting a podcast, is building a new way, but why? A new website that is going to be awesome. actually invest, build a really good one with tons of features that is built to support, like be the home base for everything that we do. Like blog posts, you know, YouTube videos will live there or be embedded there. Podcast episodes, you know, and if I live stream, it'll be, you know, so anything that I do will be there and it's going to be a good site, not a bad site. And so that's one of the things. Another way put high. Yes. Yes, we loved it. Alicia, it was all Alicia. She did that whole thing and she crushed it and she had fun and I think would be down to do another and I think we should because it was amazing. The first one was so fun. I was on one of the things I got sent by Alicia to to the Natural History Museum with a group and it was fun. And then we went to Central Park. No, what just happened? No. Oh, God. No, I don't think I like the white. No, I don't think I like that at all. All right. Do we like thicker line? Yeah, I think we're thickers. Okay, I'm gonna leave it. This is telling you old Tim when he wasn't like trying to desperately trying to finish a bunch of drawings for a book would have just spent like so long on these. Like, let me just give you an example. Where's my Firefox? All right. Is so This. This is an example of something that I could have spent, I don't know, half hour on? 30 minutes? I probably spent three hours on this. Just lining up, like, in this, making sure that the colors went exactly halfway up the dotted line. Like, every single color, every single alignment of everything of this, and it was just, for what? For what? The people get the point, right? They're just looking at the quadrants. And so anyway, that was an example. Probably because I was procrastinating from moving on to something like these comics. Which, as now you know, these comics, you see how long they take me. Like, just hours and hours. Like, oh, let me show you one. No, no, no. But like, yeah, getting this guy's face right, you know, takes a lot of tries. So I was probably procrastinating on that. Yeah, anyway, these obviously took forever. Okay. All right. I feel now the question is, should I put the little boss on top of an arrow through him? I think no. That's enough of that boss. And then I have to put something down here to... Because I could put the boss here doing his, you know, being bad. Then the boss is up here with an arrow through him and he's sad. But then down here, I have to show someone else being sad who's not a villain, right? Who's a manufactured villain. You know someone just taking down their enemies using the digital cudgel pretending that they're taking down someone at the top But who is that I don't have that character right now in this so I don't feel like it would be weird Let me just see real quick because I like the first two of the idea the boss is sad at the top of the hill Because he he's been he's been you know, he's been cancelled. He's been caught doing bad things and now he can't do them anymore. Um, so here, you know, he's down here with his cigar and everything's going great for him. Um, and then up here, um, he's been, uh, let's do a circle here. We're going to take his cigar away. He doesn't get his cigar anymore up here. How did I end up with two again? Why do I always cop double d- something's, something's up. All right. Um, let's, take his cigar away and his not his little arm isn't so enthusiastic anymore

Illustrations for my book coming out in the fall. Drawing is hard.

Drawing software: Pixelmator Pro
Music: Epidemic Sound (https://epidemicsound.com/)
Drawing tablet: Wacom Cintiq Pro 13" (https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-displays/wacom-cintiq-pro-13)

Drawing streams:
Day 1: https://youtu.be/xReaOH7-LPI (Part 1) and https://youtu.be/qKMQtUsE1qc (Part 2)
Day 2: https://youtu.be/X86aVc5mBlY (Part 1), https://youtu.be/eyHM8PkASt8 (Part 2), and https://youtu.be/Wzr88LiUnFw (Part 3)
Day 3: https://youtu.be/rolUc1M2mHA (Part 1), https://youtu.be/KbznndW5UOU (Part 2)