Tim Tries to Draw Things - Day 1

Okay. And it seems like it also didn't save to YouTube the old one, but hopefully your computer saved the old one. Okay, I see the old one there. Okay, it wasn't showing up when I signed in, but wait, you see it, sorry, where do you see it? It just wasn't public. Now I made it public and I published it. And I think I'm live streaming currently, but I can't confirm. Okay. Oh yeah, here. Someone's here. Okay. So let's just, okay. So I guess people just have to refresh. Let me see if I use this. Okay. There are some people here. People had to refresh. Okay. Well, yes. Yeah. The old link does go to the, uh, no, I, yeah, I just refreshed. We back. Yeah. Oh, there, there are two things. The link that you shared, Tim. the weibo i flash live is okay all right well here we are um okay okay that was super annoying um let me just try something here okay well the audio output capture that's the silver lining is that we now have working music again technology Anyway, it's all good now. I'm back on, so I will talk to you later. Okay. Thank you for those who refreshed and are back. I'm very frustrated, as you might imagine. But the music's working again, which was the bane of my existence all day. Okay, so... Oh, no, this thing is not working. Hold on. Last thing is this iOS camera situation. Just reset that up. Yeah, there's two silver linings to this... utter bullshit that happened. Wrong way. Yes, that way. Okay. Now, we're gonna discuss the nightmare that is my life. Okay, so we got this, and we re-plug this in. You know, they said, if you're gonna be doing stuff like live streaming, you really should, um, you really should, um, get the M1 Max, you know? Shell out! Get the really fancy computer because look at this. Snow like it's 1966. Imagine. Imagine my life where this is snow. So yeah, they're like, oh, you gotta get the double camera audio. Good thinking. Thank you. I will turn that off. But it was like, oh, get the M1 Max, they said, you know. Go all out because You're gonna do stuff like live streaming and you're gonna want to have the best computer and then I do that And I get the best computer and this kind of shit happens We're close Okay, so there's two silver lining one is that the music is back so that makes me happy And two is that I did not lose my drawing I was so fucking sure I was gonna come back and have lost that whole drawing and that was gonna make me really angry and upset. I've fucked everything up. I've fucked everything up now. I just, I cropped the wrong one. Okay, I'm gonna add to the agenda. So we're gonna have computer crash, kill myself, start, resume drawing. Just keep everyone up to date here. My computer just went, you know, it got the beach ball, but not only did I get the beach ball. I got that the nightmarish version of it where it's not even spinning. You know what I'm talking? It was just jumping around every once in a while. And it made me really upset. It's one thing when you're, you know, normally, but when you're live streaming, it's really not what you're looking for in that moment is for the beach ball. Now we're going to turn this back on. No more snow. Just please. Just thank you. Thank you. Okay. And now I'm going to get this back where it was. And we're going to continue. I'm glad whoever made it back here made it back. Good to see you all again. Okay. Okay. Okay. So let's just get bigger and this a little. I don't really actually. Okay. God, that was annoying. Okay. This is how Apple just works. Yeah, Apple, you deserve it. You deserve to be made fun of right now. Okay, so there were a few hundred people here and now there's 60, so good job some of you making it back. Okay, I guess let's continue where we were. So the good fucking news, thank God, is that my drawing didn't die. I was going to be so upset after I worked quite hard on this. Okay, so we're making a cross-section of the earth. Man, that was annoying. Okay. So I'm gonna go like this That's one thing I will give pixel mater and other products Unlike Microsoft fucking word is that it auto saves And I didn't lose anything This is the shit, you know when you're looking at this cross-section in the book you're like wow, that's a pretty like Mediocre cross-section you don't appreciate that. I had to like do this outline like this to get rid of that thing Okay Ugh. This is so gross. Oh, I hate it. Okay. This is stupid. Right? This is stupid what I'm doing right now. Is this inane perfectionism? Or is this just, like, worth it for, like, three minutes to make the whole thing look less sloppy? Or maybe eight minutes? I think it's worth it. But it's always good to weigh how inane I'm being. I don't get when I fill. I still never find a way to just get it to fill every pixel. It likes to fill, like, close to the line. but not like actually just fill the whole thing as I like to have these lines. Sure, there's some way to deal with it, I don't understand. Here we are, living our one lives while I do this shit. Okay, that's gonna, oh, this big, big, big one, big one. Oh, okay, we can do it. You know, Arnold Schwarzenegger once said he was filming Conan the Barbarian, He said that he was like, oh, you know what? The music's probably too loud. I forgot to turn this. Yeah. Let me know if the music's too loud. He said, Conan, Arnold said that he was in intense pain going through, climbing, you know, crawling over these rocks. His knees were bleeding, but they kept having to do the scene again and again and again. He kept having to crawl over rocks. His knees were in agony. stinging, bruising, and he said, he said that, but I sold myself, he said, the pain is temporary, the film is permanent. That was a bad impression. But he said, and I never forgot that, because I was like, you know, I mean, it is the mantra of perfectionism, so it's not great to go too far with that, to be like, no, it's always worth it to make it a little better. But I do think in certain cases, like, you know, someone might have this book on their shelf in 20 years. And it won't be as sloppy because I just did this for a few minutes. And so it's a line that you have to just think about where the right place is on it. But I'm going to do it anyway. Now, granted, what I should do is just learn sometime how to fill in a way where this isn't, where I don't have to do this kind of thing. But we're almost done now. You know, I was on a roll. With this cross section. I was so proud of myself I was doing really efficient with those circles, you know, and I was like, oh man I'm like this could have taken so long. I'm just flying through and then between the computer crashing and now these lines Kind of negates that and it's just like another slow-ass drawing. All right, but we're getting close and I'm gonna be excited about Having a finished cross section in a second. All right Okay, that's good. I see I'm not gonna worry about like the little difference in color here. Fuck that. Okay This is sloppy here. Does that look any better? That looks pretty good. What's this up here? I'm annoyed officially, but at least... Okay. Okay, I'll do the rest later. Now, okay. Not bad, right? That's a cross-section of the earth I did. Now, I don't like that black line in the middle being too black, so let's just change that color a little. Let's make it more opaque, less opaque. In fact, do I even need it? I don't think I need it. I think the shading does the trick. But now, see now we get some sloppiness going on right around the edges here. So let's just quickly fix that. Your doom is eternal. It's well said. Okay. There's only two things in the world I really don't like, and it's writing and drawing. You know, it's funny because whenever I'm writing, I fantasize about drawing. I'm like, I wonder if I could just be like, you know, sitting around with my pen, drawing some stick figures, instead of like writing this like... hideous research paper. And then when I'm drawing, I'm like, oh, what if I could just be like, instead of hunched over this thing, trying to do this thing I don't know how to do, what if I could just be sitting back in the laptop typing paragraphs? Seems a lot better. Green. Where are the greens from the earth? I see. They're never really quite connected. Okay. Okay. Now we're getting close. Doesn't this look blue? It's one of those optical illusions. There's no blue in what I'm doing here. This is all gray. It's not... Light blue is just pure gray, but it looks blue next to that orange. Okay. All right. I'm satisfied for now. Now, having a line over to block off the imperfections would have been a lot easier. Yeah, I know. I know. I had one. I had one of those. I have it here. I could make it a little darker, but something about it was kind of like nicer without it, you know? It's like, what is that line? It is bothering me this one tiny thing here. I don't know why the lines not showing up there given that it's... I don't know, that's not gonna work. It's gonna be too dark. Nope, I'm gonna leave it. Now, okay. So, the point of all this. What were we even doing, right? Um... Oh. Yeah, which playlist stream? Okay, so. What I would love to be playing, and I'll just play it for a second, is my like Zelda and chill, right? Or like... But I just don't think I can do that. Without having YouTube like shut it down. I asked permission from all the artists I like and most of them said yes, but I still don't think YouTube AI knows that like what I would love to be playing is Is my normal work playlists which is You know, you know some Zelda and chill or some pokey and chill or some owl boy But I'm not gonna do that because I just don't know if I'm allowed to So instead I'm going to keep playing this, which is also fine. I don't mind it. What this is is, so I also used to, I do listen to like lo-fi hip hop beats, which is what this is. And so it's, it is close to stuff I do listen to. I've listened to some of these actual songs a bunch of times in Spotify. This is a site called Epidemic Sound, where once you sign up for it, you have to pay a little bit. Oh, my light is off. Once you sign up for it, you can use all those songs on YouTube. legally, you're not gonna get shut down. And so that's where I am. And the way I found it is because I searched Happy Hip Hop, which was an idea I got from the YouTube streamer, Chris Ramsey. He did a little video about, because I was like, you know, I was like, those are the songs I'm looking for, what he's listening to. That's what I, and then that's where he searched for Happy Hip Hop in Epidemic Sound, and you get a nice playlist. There's your answer to that. Anyway. So, okay, so let's go back to what I was doing here. So why did I draw a cross section of the earth? The answer is because I'm talking about at the beginning of the book, the rabbit hole that I fell down. And I guess since we're in North America here, I should be somewhere over here. And this is the rabbit hole I fell down while trying to write about this topic. which is why this book is so extensive and why it took me so long is that a normal rabbit hole goes like five feet down. You don't know how far rabbits go down in the ground, but I went way farther than that. So how do I want to do this though? Is that going to be in the book? Will that be? Yeah, I think I'll do enough. Okay, so that's where I fell. That's the rabbit hole where I ended up. And so let's just label that. So we know. So I'm going to say me. This will make more sense in the context of the book. When you're actually reading it, it'll understand more why I'm saying me and pointing to this. But maybe make that white. Oops. Yeah. So this is good. I was dreading this one because I was dreading having to do a cross section of the earth, but it wasn't that bad. It's like 40 minutes, 30 minutes. Okay. So that's the rabbit hole I fell down when I was trying to write about this topic. And that's where I ended up. That's how deep it went. When I came out, I was holding this. Oh, where are we here? I was holding my hyper... Why would it get so small? What an insane thing for it to do. Look at this glitchy shit. I'm gonna restart Pixelmator. This is some glitchy shit I'm dealing with here. I can't stand it. I can't stand it. Okay. Okay, so Max says, are you still going to read the rest of the story of us? Also, what the book is this drawing for? Okay, so I'll explain this before and I'll explain it for people who are here. This is the story of us, this book. But the story of us was just way bigger of a thing than I appreciated when I was doing that series. To the point where I took the first 10 chapters, which was supposed to be the meat of it. I condensed it. into something about one third the length, the key ideas. And that is now the first quarter of the book. And so the next three quarters of this book is something I've never published before. It was, it was, I was going to touch on some of the ideas at the very end of the story of us, but I had so much more to say. So rather than, you know, that was already a hundred thousand words on the blog. Rather than make a 400,000 word thing on the blog, I condensed it all into a normal length, long, but normal length book. Where what, what. what's the story of us that's already been published is now really the three first three chapters of this book if that makes sense it's a little confusing i'll explain it more but basically anyone who read the story of us is gonna you know it's um that's like the framework that then the book uses to explore what's going on in modern day current events and and and and the last like 50 years of political history and why i think our societies are getting kind of are kind of themselves right now in a hundred ways and how uh how i think they can be better um okay still missing the bitcoin logo at the center uh okay um am i using different layers yes you see over here these are all my layers um i i i think i'm you know like i said i i if uh When I started out drawing, I was an F at skills. Like I would, I would just do all the things on one layer because I didn't even know about layers. And then I, now I do, I think I use a lot of the tools to be pretty efficient with it, but I'm sure like, for example, all those like lines, I just have to drew to fill in, draw the, I'm sure there's some way I could have just avoided that with a quick change to the settings on how I fill in color. But I give myself a B minus now compared to the F I used to get as far as my pixelator skills. Okay, so here we are. This is cool. Okay, next. What's the next drawing? Should we do a little... a little bit of procrastination? I mean, I feel that a little couldn't hurt. No, Europe is not intentionally raised. I'm just a little sloppy. Although I guess it's supposed to be that the land's a little higher than the ocean. But no. Okay, let's see. What do we want to do? I think we should do this. I'm going to go here. We do a little procrastination. So resume drawing, which I did. 14. Procrastinate. So far, this is where we've been, FYI. We started with troubleshooting, and then we've done a little bit of all of this stuff. Oh, that doesn't need to be bolded anymore. Maybe I'll make this a little smaller. It feels a little unnecessarily big. Yeah. So that's where we are right now. In the scheme of things. Okay, procrastinate. So here's what I want to do. We did a crossword puzzle already, if you missed that. We crushed it. We did a crossword puzzle, a New Yorker crossword puzzle earlier today. We also did replay global. And now I want to go to wiki roulette. So this is where you get a random Wikipedia page. I don't know what warrior run means. Let's move to the next one. Okay, let's read about this. This is a random Wikipedia page. Cheshmandagan-e-Majid. Cheshmandagan-e-Majid is a village in somewhere in Iran. Wow, that is a lot of things it is in before it's in Iran. At the 2006 census, this population was 203 in 46 families. I wish someone from Cheshman, Dagan, E. Majid were watching this live stream right now. They'd lose their shit. 46 families. Man, they better like each other there. That is a small little place. Okay, next. Ooh. Listed 2019 American television debuts. This is where we are here. Okay. I don't care about this. Is there anything I watched or heard of or care about anywhere? Man, there's a lot of shit being made. It just didn't used to be like this. There were like eight shows and everyone watched all eight and now there's like a trillion shows and it's like so a little overlap except for like the really big ones. I don't think I've watched a single show here. My wife watches Euphoria, but she told me I wouldn't like it, so I haven't watched that. This is boring. I want to move on to the next Wikipedia page. Yeah, I'm gonna move on. Okay. That sucked. Oh, wow. Okay. So we're now in Aditmari Upazila. That is some kind of name. So Aditmari is an Upazila of Lamonirhat district in Bangladesh. How many people live there? Population of 176,000. You know, typical fucking Bangladesh to have There's so many people in Bangladesh. It is such a densely populated part of the world, it blows my mind. I tweeted something the other day about like the population of Bangladesh is 5% of the world and then like there's this giant, let's just pull that up. Bangladesh, 5% of the world compared, I think it was on Reddit. Let's see if it comes up here. Yeah, here it is. Okay, check this out. Okay. Let's zoom in here. 5% of the world lives in the red. 5% of the world lives in the blue. That is wild to me. I mean, like, granted, a lot of that blue is, like, tundra, but it's not, I mean, all of Scandinavia is in there, or everything besides Denmark. All of Canada. Like, these aren't, like, complete, not all of Australia. Huge. parts of Russia where there still are cities and people like it's just wild to me this fact but like the craziest part is the red like that there's so many people in there 5% of the world's like 400 million people 400 million that's bigger than the more than the US population lives in the red so yeah that's kind of crazy okay let's go back to where we were here So anyway now the question I have is if Aditmari is an upazilla What the hell is an upazilla? An administrative region in Bangladesh functioning as a subunit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or borough. Okay an upazilla There we go. Okay, let's do one more Yeah, we already talked about Elon. Sorry and this Twitter. I'm happy about it, but I don't want to get into it again Coffee, where's coffee breaking that list? I have coffee here. I did when I did this dinner This dinner I like went out and just like open the fridge and just like went like that into my mouth with various things for 10 minutes And then I came back here and I made the second coffee Okay, I love looking at random Wikipedia articles because you still look on. I totally agree. Totally agree. I love wiki roulette Antarctica should be covered. Yeah, it should have been it's unsatisfying that it wasn't They just threw in Belize on that map. Yeah Oh, thanks. I'm glad you love the travel series. I'd really like to do a travel series again. That would make me happy. It was really, really fun and exciting. And yeah, there's so many places I want to go. I have a few. The thing I really wanted to do for the next travel series was I really wanted to go. I really wanted to go. Do I have any pets? I think to answer that question. Anyway, I really wanted to go to... This is Remy. And let's just get the other one while we're here. I really want to go across the Bering Strait. I wanted to drive. So this is my friends here. You see. They're actually both napping. Oh no. No, Siri did it again. Oh no, we have the music. Okay, I thought last time, earlier this morning, Siri came on randomly. Fucking, I need to turn Siri off tomorrow. And the music disappeared for everyone for the rest of the day until my computer crashed and then Music came back. That was the silver lining. Anyway, this is my little friends here. You see they're little this Remy is Two years old and very grumpy. She's like a cat. She's not very nice She's my little friend, but she's not she you have to earn her affection She doesn't dole it out. And this is Gus who's unbelievably friendly. He's seven months old And he's just a very nice little friend. And they're so like cozy and warm. So like toasty when I'm holding them. Anyway. So yeah, I wanted to drive from New York to Mumbai. That was going to be like a little gimmick. Right? And I was like, I can do that. I'll just go up and I'll drive, you know, up to the edge of Alaska and get the ferry over the Bering Strait. Get into eastern Russia and drive down, cross Russia into India and down to Mumbai. What an amazing, you know. Six weeks, two months, whatever that would be, you know, and I'll blog about it every day. Turns out that is incredibly impossible. First of all, you can't drive to the west coast of Alaska. The roads don't go there. The roads, you know, there's not that many roads in Alaska, and they don't just go everywhere. Secondly, there is a village right on the edge of western Alaska. There's no ferry. First of all, the Bering Strait is the... you know at the uh it's like right at the this little tiny mouth um that the whole pacific kind of is is on the edge of so it's it's like between the pacific it is this little like what the word is but whatever it's this little thing but you know tiny little inlet between the arctic ocean and the pacific ocean so it's a mess of waves and it's dangerous um and there's no one who can get you across now some people have tried and it's dangerous, but when you make it, you get to Russia and immediately get deported because the eastern province of Russia is the hardest place to visit in the world. Like there's, there's incredibly strict rules. It's not just normal Russian visa. You need like a special permit, which almost no one's allowed to get to go there. So you get immediately deported and there's not just roads right there either that can just take you. So for many, and let alone getting myself across, getting my car across. So I thought I was just picturing, you know, you drive up and you. drive your car onto the ferry and go across like as if it's like going across the Gibraltar Street. So that didn't happen. But I have other ideas, other cool travel series. Okay, let's do one more. Let's see. Where is this going to take us? Stanley Moss. You see how random this is? Stanley Moss is an American poet. Oh, good for Stanley still being alive. Good for Stanley still being alive. Man, he has seen some shit, Stanley. He was a little... kid when the great depression hit and um and he's now he's here again he's back in the 20s he's like you know um father was a high school principal glad i know that non-religious but occasionally celebrated jewish holidays same here respect uh tour of southern europe describing the essay okay getting a little bored here of stanley but uh why does stanley get a wikipedia page i'm not quite sure about that But good for him, you know? Okay. One more. This is what procrastinators do. They say one more, but then they do two more. What a boring one. Richard Carvalho. It's just not a sport Americans care about. I hate to tell you. Speaking of which, just real quick, I want to see if the basketball game happening yet. You can't just do that here. That's not what I meant to do. Yes. I'm using Firefox, so I don't have my normal things in. Oh, it's not until late. Wow. 920 Eastern. Imagine putting that game on and expecting any East Coast kids to be able to watch it or anything. Okay, okay, okay. We are procrastinating now. Let's go back to... We'll come back to this. But we should get some drawings done. I'm going to put these dogs down. Everyone say bye. Really glad to hear it, John. That was the goal is that that post could maybe help some people figure some shit out and I'm glad to hear it did that for you. Okay, next drawing. So we did our cross section. Kind of did the hypothesis. Page 801. Did we just lose the, no, we still have it. Should turn on do not disturb, shouldn't I? All right. Okay, so now we're going to do, what's next? Okay, here's a small drawing. This is an easy one, unlike this last one. Gus, a little bit of my existence. We're going to do an easy one, but it's a cool concept. So I'm going to show you. You're going to get a sneak peek of something that other people won't see until the book comes out. So I have a drawing in the book. So check this out. This is one of my favorite drawings. If humanity were an 800 page book and you took all the pages out and laid them all next to each other. So let's say humanity goes back 160,000 years, which is, you know, which is our 200,000 years. And each page is a 250 years of history. So you actually wrote down all of human history in a book and every page covers 250 pages. It's crazy how much of human history. was everyone on earth was hunter-gatherer basically. And you can see behaviorally modern humans come over here, down here, like, you know, a little bit more recently. But it's only the last two lines. You get to, you know, early cities and agriculture, and then you get to recorded history. So when we think of prehistoric, we're talking about everything except the last line. Written history is one line of this book. And if you see Buddha, look how close Buddha is to us. Like if we live on this page, page 800, which is the last, it's page 800 I defined as 1750 to 2000. So we actually live on the beginning of page 801. But you can see how everything we think of as ancient history is actually like just right before us. It's our era. And there was so much time before that. Anyway, what I'm drawing now is after I said this, I then say, okay, but, um, but so we're in the beginning of page 801, which is going to, which 801 runs from the year 2000 to 2250. We're, we're, you know, a 10th of the way into page 801. Um, and I want to just draw page 801 and kind of show that, show that, that we are at the beginning. Um, no glitchy. Glitchy glitchy glitchy. Why is it doing this? I'm gonna just restart. Fuck this. I like my background picture. Okay, now just please be normal now. Okay, good. Alright, look what we've done for anyone who's missed it today. We did this. We did, we drew moths at a streetlight. Takes some explaining why, but... See that glow on that? I'm kind of proud of that. We did, we did, we did the Pope. and giovanni having a conversation we played tic-tac-toe i won this is my hypothesis we did a rabbit hole in the earth and oh well we have to bring the best one out which is the boss um yeah this is a mean bad sexually harassing boss and i just had him naked i had him like this and it was really good idea of people in the chat to give him this now i'm very pleased i think he looks really cool But not a nice guy. Okay, so... Close this. Close this. Alright. So, here's my book template for anyone who missed it earlier. This is the exact size of the canvas and resolution that you're supposed to use for a book of this size. And you can see what it is. It's 1837 by 27. 75 pixels, 300 pixels per. So that's what I've been using. And these grid lines are, you know, this is the page, but you can't draw on the very, very edge of the page. So this is within these grid lines is where I'm allowed to draw. And so now we're going to save this as, and I'm going to do page 801. And I'm going to draw page 801. This is going to be an easy one. All right. So how did you pick the spot to start the books? I just, you know, I ballparked it like, you know how long is human history how long have anatomically identical humans been around i used to hear 100 000 years uh now the more recent estimate is 200 000 years and there's even a more recent estimate which is 300 000 years based on something i think remit you know some kind of fossils they found in west africa which also means that maybe the first people weren't in ethiopia area maybe they're in west africa who knows but we don't know and so i thought 200 000 years seems like a solid ballpark for about how long people that looked like us and had similar bodies have been around and then you know there was some kind of cognitive revolution at some point and so behaviorally modern humans which maybe was you know that's when complex languages developed or symbolic language maybe 50 60 70 thousand years ago so I don't have an exact answer to those because I've read different answers and that's when you whenever I read experts and they disagree with each other all the experts are saying something different is when you know that we just don't know yet The species has not figured this out yet. There's a lot of things like, you know, certain topics like that where it's like, okay, we're just, you know, our species just is still working on this one. And then once you have consensus and almost every scientist says the same thing, now you think, okay, maybe we finally have figured this one out. AirPods Max, I like them a lot. They're too expensive. They're not a good deal. Like the Sonys, the Boses that are like $300. I think these are like four or something. are as good. But the reason I got these is the pairing is amazing as you would expect from Apple headphones. And this big wide thing, I can actually on an airplane sleep on it without it hurting, which is pretty cool. You can't really do that with other headphones. And the most important is this button here toggles between noise canceling, which every one of those headphones has, and transparency mode, which many of them don't. And the transparency mode is incredible. I can walk into a coffee shop to order and I press this and suddenly I'm in the room and I hear every word. It's as if nothing's on my ears. It's just a really great feature. I use it all the time. So that's my answer to that. Okay. So a page. Page 801. So here's what I'm going to do here. I'm going to fit. Now I want to approximate. So sometimes I don't want to just do this. I could just do this. I could just be like, hey, there's a page of a book. And I could add some thickness and I could be like there it is. There's your book page, you know, and then I do some lines, you know, but I don't like to do it that way because to me it just looks cheap. I prefer to to draw it. It just takes a second and I feel like it looks more like it. So I'm going to use this though as like a guide. So I'm going to go here and bring down the opacity. And then I'm gonna make a thing here, and I'm going to, and I'm just gonna try to kind of sketch this out. I'll clean it up after. Okay, so, just to discuss for a second why I did that. Might seem pretty inane to some people. Let's bring the full opacity back here. So, this versus this. To me, it just makes all the difference in the world. One looks like a human druid. the other one looks like someone you know looks like a graphic uh and it's it's a little thing but i think it really does make a big difference putting up this one little edge here um and sometimes you know just personal preference i'm sure some people would think the the straight line just looks better but i i don't happen to i think it makes it look um better this way okay so there we are now And it's quick. I mean, obviously there's a trade-off. If that was the kind of thing that was gonna take me two hours, I wouldn't have done it. It's not that important. But it took three minutes? Four minutes? Okay. Now, let's just actually try to get this mathematically correct. So if this is page 801, so this is the year 2000 up here, and this is the year 2250, we're a little under the tenth of the way in, right? And so... This starts at the ruler says 500 and it goes down to like 2100. All right, so that's 1600 so we should be about 150 of those in which means we're at about We're about like here And I'll just yeah, we're looking about that right so I'm gonna do lines to around there Should it be the same? I think it should be gray. Let's just change this color So we're like there. And so I'm gonna label this now. Some other questions that I had talked about before, for people who weren't here. This is the Wait But Why font. I drew it myself. It was awful and hard to draw these letters. But I was like, look, I'm not gonna do Comic Sans forever. It's excruciating. But I don't want to do like Helvetica in like a stick drawing. It looks weird. So we ended up with the WAPO Y font. It's a little wider, bigger, too big. Some smaller. You are here. Clean that a tiny bit. There we go. Okay, so page 801, you are here. That's where we are. And the point of this book is that, if you already noticed, page 801 is not like page 800 that we're used to. Page 800 itself is insane. compared to the first 199 pages. So 199 pages takes us up to 1750. So for 199 pages of this story of human history, we, you know, transportation was horses and sailboats and walking. Communication was letters and talking. And on page 800, you have this world gone totally magical, right? But page 801, you know, the internet is a page 801 phenomenon. almost entirely. Social media is a page 801 phenomenon. Crypto, really the tech world blowing up. I mean, it was some of that in the 90s, but it really got blown, you know, blew up in the year 2000. So page 801 is just the rules are different. And we're living on a page, we can't be living on page 801 with page 800 rules. And I think sometimes that's what we're doing and I think that's a big problem because I think we're misinterpreting page 801 as the world that we grew up used to or our parents used to. So part of what I'm writing this book about is to try to like say, hey, we're on a different kind of page and this page has magical tech ahead of us. You know, we might cure mortality on this page. I would probably bet that we would and people can die when they want by the end of this page. You know, we'll go multi-planetary on this page. Crazy shit, but... You know how the cure all that are ills that we think about right now that we think are you know Disease and poverty climate change and even like that on the other hand page 800 for all of its magic had the worst genocides and the worst wars the biggest wars and it had the you know most Existentially scary new you know weapons nuclear, you know stuff like that And so page 801 is promises to have even more scary technology And we, just like page 801 could be the best page ever, it also could be the one that ends us. This could be on the last page of human history. If we're not careful, we need to have our wits about us right now. The stakes are very high on this page of explosive technology. And that's the core premise of why I wrote the book, to figure out how can we do our best to help page 801 have a good outcome, not an awful outcome. Music? No, I was saying that this is... I'm using Epidemic Sound. I do like this music and I listen to Lo-Fi Hip-Hop sometimes, which is what this is. But my favorite playlist on Spotify, I just don't... I'm worried that YouTube will shut down the live stream if I use them. Even though I've gotten permission from the artists. Because I think, you know, the AI will just flag it as Spotify music or something. I don't know. If someone disagrees and thinks I can do it and get away with it, I'd love to play other stuff too. But I think this works better than what we had most of the day, which is no music because things were fucked up. Okay. Will the chat distract you? Yes. Look, this is a trade-off. This is a fun experiment. I like, you know, I like hanging out with readers. And this is a chance to do that. And I like, I always wanted to have live stream capabilities. I'll use it for God knows what. There's a million things I can use this for now that I have all the hardware and software I need. I just didn't really have it before. So I'm happy to have this up and rolling. This is a fun experiment. And it's also, I'm going to probably work more hours today because there's people here. So it's helping me move, but it's also slowing me down because I'm hanging out. I think it might end up balancing out, but it's a fun experiment. Okay, moving on. Okay, so page 801. Now, the only thing I want to do is I think this page should have a little bit of a background color to it. And just back to make this point one more time. Now that this... Oh, let's just add... Let's add this here. Okay. Let's make it a little off-white, maybe. Page... Oh, let's just mimic... Let's mimic the page color from the other thing. There we go. So now, back to this one thing. So I just... So here's why... Oh, this is not centered. That's unsatisfying. Here we go. So compare this with the shitty outline of the page to the perfect one. Right? Doesn't this look more like a real drawing? I think it does. Anyway. Okay. So you are here. And now these lines are a little too light. They're blending in a little too much of the background. So let's just change those a little bit. Ever so slightly darker. Okay. Done. No more perfectionism. Here. Okay. Next drawing. Okay, this isn't that interesting, but should we do a big one? Okay, we can do a big drawing. Like I've been doing a lot, I've been knocking off some kind of like easy ones here that are like little one-offs. This is more of an ordeal here, this one, but gotta do it sometime. Okay. All right, let's do it. Okay, so this is gonna be, let me just open the documents to the, okay. Not sure I'm ready for this yet, because I think I might need to do some more. Okay, I'm gonna look at something different here. Just refreshing myself because I want to get fully back in the zone. Some of these things, some of these drawings are from parts of the writing I worked on months ago, most recently, and I'm like, I want to make sure I am capturing the most recent idea I had. I've changed my mind. I think tomorrow, I think I need to do some, rather than sit here and bore everyone by staring at my other screen. I think between tonight's session and tomorrow, I need to just reconsider how I want this certain thing to play out. And then tomorrow, that'll be a big chunk of the day, is getting this thing done that I want to get done. That'll be a huge thing to have finished. For now, let's keep it simple and do another intro drawing. That is the same idea of the book. All right, I'm just going to draw a book. And this is going to be The Story of Us, is what the book is called. Which, by the way, this book that I'm making is no longer called The Story of Us. But the book, Human History, is written in an 800-page book called The Story of Us, which does appear in this. It's very confusing right now, I understand. Okay. But here we go. So we're going to say SOU book. This is a beast of a drawing from the Story of Us series. This particular drawing is not in the book, but I want to steal one of the books I made. Is this gonna be too low-res? You can't just transfer the blog drawing so easily into the book because it's kind of a different... Yeah, maybe it could. Maybe it can work. Okay. Yeah, again, fuck perfectionism, right? All right. So let's write on this and see what happens. I don't know about this black lighter. I hate S's. They're so hard. That was a good S. Thank god there's only one S right now. It's not... it's not right. Something's wrong. Let's see. Okay. Now this whole thing has to move over. Oh, there's another S. Okay. All right. Let's move the whole thing down. That's good enough. Would it be better in white is a question. Why it defaults to light blue? I think so. It looks really dumb, but, you know, it's gonna have to be good enough. This age is killing me. Okay, here we go. So SOU book done. Next. See, I'm doing easy ones. Okay, here's something I need to do. So, we've got our primitive mind and our higher mind. And look, look how much better this would look. This is something I explained earlier, that these are the colors that would appear on the blog. Nice and vivid. But in the book, when you print color, it doesn't look like this. It's printed very specifically with the four colors of a printer and it comes out looking like the orange you'll see looks pretty similar a little darker but the glow around this dude's head is just murdered so That's a bummer, but that's okay Anyway, the reason I'm here with this right now even though it's done is that I I was told that it looks a little confusing. Um, that it's, um, so let's just see, that it's, let's just make this, uh, new. So, what if I went down here? I don't think this solves the problem, because, I mean, I obviously would get rid of some, I would shade this so you could read the words, but I don't think it's clear that this is one circle, that's another. Okay, so that's out. Now, Another option would be to, um, uh, hmm, I don't actually like that plan. Let's do circles. So the idea here, um, I also talked about this Venn diagram in my TED talk. If anyone's seen that, uh, basically, you know, we have software in our heads that is programmed to do a bunch of stuff and interpret the world a certain way. And it can't update. It's just. It's not really in real time, you know, seeing the world. While your higher mind, at least the way I view it, is this part of your mind that can see the world and understand what's really going on and wants to actually do things that make sense. So long-term planning and, you know, doesn't want to dehumanize its political outgroup because why would... That makes no sense. These are humans and dehumanizing is weird. But the primitive mind does. And so you have this conflict. I'm just trying to make this bend a little clearer because these words above it looks like it's kind of referring to maybe the guy instead of the thing below Have arrows pointing into them. Yeah, I thought about that What was considered fusing confusing just like I don't know that That that this refers to so I was gonna try to do something here that Yeah, so I was gonna kind of do this But actually I should make it slightly bigger. This is just a little tweak. This is not a huge thing. It's just a little tweak. Can we make this a little clearer? By having the labels kind of really wrap around the circle instead of... So, things the primitive wants to do. I don't know about this plant at all right now, FYI. But we'll try it. Let's make that... Orange. So do we like this more? Mix the drawing. One thing I was explaining before is that vertical, in a blog, vertical is irrelevant, right? You just scroll. It's cheap, the space in a blog. So you can make a long vertical comic that people just scroll right down on their phone or their computer, and it's no big deal. In the book, every vertical inch is like five lines of text that gets pushed down. So even just this change here could, you know, Reduce five or six lines of text if you add if you if you you know are not if you're careless vertically throughout the book you're just gonna add 50 70 100 pages of pages on Because you're using up so much vertical space with your drawings Okay, let's see how this looks here now looks fine as is less is more you might be right you might be right But I wonder if this is less in a way it'll look nice and We'll find out. Okay. I don't love it. I don't love it. I don't love it. I don't love this. I think that the arrows person had it right. It's just that it looks asymmetrical because that, you know, starting from the left and it looks like this weird curly thing and it's kind of hard to read. Okay, fuck it. See? That's why we test things out because sometimes you find something better and sometimes you just make your thing worse. Okay. So I put these back, and now I'm going to make little arrows. Okay. It's kind of ugly, but clarity matters most. I want it to be clear. I'm not talking about this region, you know, the orange region and the black region. I'm talking about the circles, and maybe the colors of the words is part of the problem here. I think that is part of the issue. I think if I go like this, and I do that, yeah. I think this works. And the text does some explaining, you know, it's not just... I'm actually talking about this right as the people who are reading the book will see this, so I think it's good enough. I agree. Okay, moving on. The circle outlines are a bit faint. Yeah. Are they? Are they faint? Yeah, I think it works. Yeah, make the shared area a combination. Well, I guess it's not really a combination. Problem is, yeah, it would be best to be like, you know, red and yellow and then orange in the middle. Problem is that the green and orange carry a huge amount of meaning in the book. Green is higher, orange is lower. So I don't have that option here. There's no combo of orange and green that is not like some weird muddy color. Okay, good enough, good enough. So next. Okay. I need to convert something into a comic. So, okay, this is an example. I have something that is taking up a lot of vertical space right now that is unacceptable amount of vertical space. So this is, let's just close some of these. So we've made some progress today. Seems like, hey, no barking. Seems like we're going slowly. Puppies are really annoying. This thing causes all kinds of trouble. But we can get him back by Lion King. He's confused about what's going on, but I'm just lying thinking him. See? That'll teach you. All right. Curious how many pages the book will be. Well, I was explaining earlier that it's a big book because when you have drawings, you want big pages. So it's not a coffee table size, but it's like a nine inch, pretty solid. So there's more words on those pages. So that brings the page count down. Illustrations brings it back up. And so it's going to be probably pretty long. four, even 500 page range. The book itself, just if it were just all text, is on the long side, not insane. You know, if you read Sapiens, around the same length as that. But I have an idea, which is I wrote the book. Because I know, you know, you obviously want everyone to read every word of your book, right? But that's just not realistic. A lot of people will read the whole book and a lot of other people will not. They'll read some chapters and put it down because that's just what happens with any book. So I designed the book specifically where someone who reads just chapter one, it's like a standalone blog post. They will get a lot out of it if they read one and two. It builds on chapter one. It's also standalone. One, two, and three also standalone. So I'm going to recommend to people that they read the whole thing. I wrote it, all those words, because I cut out over a hundred pages in the last couple of months. I've cut out over a hundred pages. So the stuff that's in there still is stuff that I felt like I don't want to cut this. It's important stuff. But I'm going to tell people that there's a short track. You know, if you read chapters one, two, three, and the interludes and like the conclusion, that is its own thing. And so then people can have the option to read something that's more like a 200 page book instead of a 500 page book. And I think it's a give people the option. Okay. Can you fit the character? Okay, so fitting the characters and the text into their respective circles the problem there is that it just it when I tried that it made it feel like I'm talking about that these guys live in this this region and they live in this region, but it's really that this lives in the whole circle And this guy lives in the whole circle So I don't know I'm sure there's an elegant way to do it, but it it seems difficult somehow. I don't know Okay, let's move on so What we've got here is a comic that if we pull up, I can actually show you. So, wait, but why? I think this isn't the thinking ladder. The thinking ladder stuff is all in the book. It ended up being, you know, you never know when you're writing something, but this set of ideas ended up being, you know, one of the core concepts of the whole book. This ladder now comes into the entire book, not just as far as it goes with thinking, but this idea. This idea of a ladder just comes in again and again. It's kind of the core lens of the book. This idea here. And there's a comic in here. A lot of the, this is, you know, this is the long version. All of this got condensed and a lot of this stuff got cut out of the book. But one thing that made it into the book is this comic here with the boxer. So I say, I talk about, you know, why you need to test your ideas before you can have confidence in them. You know, if you just come up with an idea. And, you know, you have an opinion, maybe because you read a couple articles and, you know, you learn some stuff and, you know, you should, but you never argued it. You never let someone really challenge it. It's like saying, I present to you this boxer and saying it's the best boxer in the world. And someone asking, well, how do you know? Who has he beaten? And you say he's never beaten anyone. I say, well, how do you know he's the best boxer in the world? And you say, I just can tell he's an amazing boxer. That would be crazy. Right people would say no no you can tell me that boxers good all you want but until he's you know proven himself in the ring and Beaten some hard opponents Fair and square that that's not a champion boxer certainly not the best boxer in the world and So we do this with our ideas though And so the point is if you have an idea think of it as a boxer that that needs testing It needs to stand up to some very smart people who disagree with it trying to tear it apart and and and giving it and and and honestly you know, not, not, you know, just disregarding those because, oh, those people are biased, but like, no, like actually addressing those arguments. And if that, if your idea can stand up to that, then it becomes a very strong idea. So the problem is, look how long this is. In the, in the blog, you're reading and you're just like, do, do, do, do, flip, slip, skip, and you're down to the bottom, right? It's no big deal. In the book, this would take up, you know, four pages. Obviously not okay. So we need to condense this. I want to try to condense it into as little vertical space as possible while still getting the point across. And I think what I'm going to do is maybe take out these things in the middle. These you might ask if I answered. I don't think you need them. So let's make a new one here. It's going to be Boxer. And we're going to give a friend. All right. Uh, so let's group these together and copy and paste. Let's just bring all these over. No! Okay. So, oops. No! Kill him. Uppies! Hey! Oh, okay. The other dog was in a bed cuddling with his stuffed animal and he didn't like that. And he's a... And so instead of just accepting that sometimes you don't get what you want, he had a fit. And now I reinforce the behavior by removing the other dog and giving him what he wanted. Okay. So we got this. No, no, no. So we got this one. And we got this one. And we got this one. All right. So what can we do here? So I think first of all, you don't have to have them just saying one line per pain here. Okay. So I think this is the best boxer in the world. Whatever. Wow, cool. Who's he beaten? Move those out of this. Okay, so now, just for us to get this in the right region. Then, we don't need this anymore. Okay, so now we have no one. Never fought anyone. And then, how do you know? He's the best boxer in the world. And then, I deleted something I didn't want to delete. I lost it somewhere. I can just tell is what I'm looking for. There we go. Okay. So I think this can be two panes after all that. So let's try this. So maybe this guy has to go over here. Maybe these, okay. Maybe this thing goes here. A mess. This is the best boxer in the world. Maybe the boxer's over here more. Okay. This is not rocket science here. It's just weird if it's all the way down here. So let's see. I mean, I guess I could just, it just takes up more horizontal space. Here, what if I try this? And then this guy goes all the way over here. This guy goes, and then he can talk and kind of talk over here. Because it's like, I don't want to have to change all their facial expressions to have them looking. I don't want to have to have them looking all the way over here. Because I could just put them here, but that's going to be a bitch. to have him he's gonna maybe he's like kind of here like he's kind of like you know it's like 3d right okay so maybe this is what happens this guy's over here this dude is over here and this guy is who he's talking to and he's he's kind of over here i could even put him in front a little bit and he says who is he being doesn't work okay we'll try it we'll try it and then Now we can mimic their locations. Did I have Boxer's face changing? He was looking back and forth, but that's not important. Okay, so there's not much... Okay, so we can just mimic these three positions here. Okay. So now he goes. No one. He's never fought anyone. Then how do you know he's the best in the world? Seems like Tim knows absolutely nothing about boxing. That is definitely true. But... Maybe I can safely say that no boxer should be crowned the best boxer in the world who has never boxed anyone. Okay. I'm just going to try this. This might look stupid. All right. Now we delete this. Okay. So what if somehow, somehow we can just pull this off? Let's see. What just happened here? Something happened. Get that out of here. Okay. Okay. Now I move all of this. Two. Three. One, two, three. Okay, and now, let's make a, it'll be a little wonky. It's a little odd what we're doing here. Let me bring this out. You can have different sizes, right? All right. Just, this thing's gonna be way down here. Just a little strange, but, you know, I don't have to draw an expression on this guy's face because he's not from behind anymore. Okay, let's just try this for one sec. So, first, in this frame. So he's excited here. And then over here, he's confused. So here we... stupid. Good enough. And here, he's confused. Anyone who's here this morning is acquainted with how long it takes me to get the mouths in right. Okay, aye. Now I'll give him some lines. So, that's the best boxer in the world. How cool is he beaten? Little bad, but never caught anyone. How do we know it's the best boxer? Now here's the one I'm most concerned about. It's weird. I don't know. Not sure, guys. Not sure about that. What do we think here? Well, we guess if the lower guy was the one presenting the boxer. Kind of, but then the upper guy's talking first. I mean, when the lower guy talks first, if the text is lower, everyone reads the upper one first. That's part of the issue. I mean, one option would be... I could put this all the way over here and just lighten the... But I don't know. I kind of think this... It's not great. What do we think here? Double text on that for yeah. Yeah, this is Lo-Fi. It's Epidemic Music or Epidemic Sound. Epidemic Sound website. Sign up and you can play music on YouTube without getting YouTube shutting you down because it's licensed. And this is, I searched in Epidemic Sound for happy hip-hop. And it has this playlist. Not a playlist, it's just this is everything tagged with happy and hip-hop. One on top of the other is a vertical line between the two text boxes. Yeah. I'm going to leave this for now. How does it look if the line comes down on the left side? Oh, on the left side. Let's find out. Maybe that's better. It's like one thought. Yeah. Is it? Sure. No, this isn't a short playlist. No, no, it's not a playlist. It is. I'll show you. This is it. So, Happy Hip Hop, 563 songs. Is that possible? Yeah. It's as long as shit. But you know, it... Yeah. So, you know, it's working for me. If anyone thinks that, you know, I can get away with... By the way, I highly recommend the app Magnet. So check it out. If I want to make this full screen, I just go Option-Command-F. But I can also go left half, right half. I can go left two-thirds, right two-thirds. And then, yeah. And left third. How did I do left third again? Oh, right. Cut this. So left third, right third, center, left half, right half, left two thirds, right two thirds. All. I use this constantly. Top half, bottom, middle half, you know, middle, bottom. So, anyway. So, I'm going to leave this for now. in the in the name of not being a perfectionist um but i do think that a couple things should change now that he's all the way over there uh i guess i mean i was gonna move this yeah saying i was talking to him more and let's have the boxer so the boxer looks and it still has a little more life to it plus the box was just the silly i enjoy the boxer um now his eye slightly in place Alright, let's move on. Boxer's condensed. Okay. So that was good. We turned five vertical panes into one vertical pane. No, I don't think the boxer's angry. Make the boxer angry. It's interesting. I think the boxer's just kind of neutral here. But what computer am I doing this on? I'm doing this on a M1 Max MacBook Pro. That it was probably overkill. M1 Pro was probably plenty, but I figured I'm actually one of the people who might be one of the reasons that I might be actually video editing and like doing pretty heavy stuff. I don't know. And I want to have this computer for four or five years. And so it just felt like just worth it to make sure I have what I need. Meanwhile, my computer crashed today and ruined the first live stream. I think that's Pixelmator's fault probably more than the computer, but I don't know. Sometimes I think that the new, you know, you gotta be careful, new chip comes out. And I learned, and I didn't buy the first M1 round. I said, no, no, no, it's gonna be a mess. And it's still, it's like, it takes a while for all the other software to update. Plus, just the new chips have their own problems. So I think it's not a bad move to wait till the M2 or whatever. I personally just... really wanted to upgrade so i didn't wait any longer but you know it's predictable that this would be problem i have problems okay um what size it's a it's a 16 inch uh macbook pro and and then i'm but then i got the xdr display which i love the hugely overpriced one but it to me it's the it's just crazy i looked around i was like okay i have an imac i have 27 inch 5k I really wanted 32 inches because I have like four Microsoft Word documents open sometimes at once. Or I'll have, I just have a lot going on and space is incredibly valuable to me. Big, big monitor. I could have just gotten two monitors, but I don't really like that. And the only ones that were big, you know, in other situations had much lower res than I was used to. Like the only, the 27 inch 5K maps onto the 32 inch 6K. So I didn't want a 32 inch. 4k or 5k because I don't want to go down the resolution so this was the only option which is probably why they can get away with charging an absolute insane amount for it and the other thing I really liked about it is that it swivels vertical into portraits but because it's made by Apple it just works really well with the software you know you swivel it vertical and adjust all the software immediately adjusts and I When I was revising writing, I need that for writing, I had a Microsoft Word doc open in page view, multi-page view, and I could see six full, pretty sizable Word pages complete. So I could see six pages of writing all at once, which for revision, when I'm moving a piece from here all the way up there, I want a laptop, I have to scroll up and, you know, it's really nice to just see it all in front of me when I'm shifting things around. So I think it was probably still the right choice. I just... I'm shocked that LG or some other cheaper things didn't have like 32 inch, 40 inch, like really good monitors that weren't like getting the, you know, the Apple brand overpriced, but there wasn't anything. Even their new one now, you know, I was so annoyed when they were coming out with a new cheaper one and I was just bought this one, but it was 27 inches. It's like some people just want a much bigger monitor. What's your GPU? I don't know. Let me find out. My GPU is 64. gigabytes of memory went all out there as well um whatever the the i got the best possible macbook pro i could have gotten like six months ago um okay next should we procrastinate or should we do we should we do another drawing and then procrastinate i'll leave it up to you someone answer and then whatever you say i'll do all right sue smitha r did we finish the crossword oh should we do another crossword I did have fun doing that crossword. Draw first. Sorry, Catherine Sineau. Oh. Draw, draw. Ooh. Fine. Three to one. I'm going to do one more drawing, and then we're going to do a crossword. Okay? All right. All right. All right. Fucking drawings. This is just... I just... I know I complain a lot, but I just don't like it. It's grueling. You know what? It reminds me of doing sets at the gym. I finish, and I'm just like, ah. And I don't want to just go to another one. I want to, like, pause. But that's why I take forever. It's part of the reason I'm doing the live stream, because it's just going to kick my ass to keep pushing here. All right. Okay, let's condense another comic that I have to condense. I need to condense the Skittles comic. So let's go back over and take a look at that one. That is... It's in this one. Yeah, here it is. Okay, so we've got Skittles. This is about, you know, the primitive mind and higher mind arguing. Okay, so he goes into CVS trying to buy soap if you can see here. It's a little small So he's trying to buy soap and then he looks down. He's like, oh shit Those look delicious. He picks them up and what it looks like to the cashiers is it's just that he's sitting there kind of staring at the skittles in his hand But what's going on inside is that his higher his primitive mind is picking it up not his higher mind It's just a bunch of sugar and chemicals like awful thing to put into your bloodstream for no reason, right? So the higher mind's like, fuck no. Primitive mind, you know, Skittles, Mars made this wrapper to entrance the primitive mind. And what does the primitive mind see? Survival, right? Because dense, super dense fruit with full of calories, you know? And the reason we like super chewy food is because that, you know, in the world we were programmed for. Anything that chewy, you know, like it was like a date. It was like super high calories, rich. And the colors, you know, means freshness, rich colors. And so our primitive mind sees the Skittles bag and is like, oh my God, give it to me. Shiny. But the higher minds like put it down, right? So this is when you pick up a bag of Skittles. There's two systems in your brain arguing. And I want to put this into the book, but I don't want to take up one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine vertical frames. So let's think about what we can do here. I don't think we need the CBS thing at the top. Okay. We certainly don't need all of this ordeal here. I think we can go from like this guy here, the second one, he's looking at it to Because you can use text, you know, I can explain a little this in text. You know, I think actually I could start with this one here. This one with these holding the soap in the Skittles and I could say in the text something like, you know, you know when you're, you know, you're when you're in a drugstore and you get torn about whether to buy a delicious thing of candy. What's really going on is this internal battle. We need these two here. So we get one, two, three, four, five. We could right away just get that to five. We could put two in a row, but I think if we can get two... Let's just try something here. Do you know how fucking long, by the way, this counter with all the candy took me? A long time. Although it's pretty shitty looking, so maybe it didn't take me that long. Okay. Okay, so let's pull these up here. So I think already we can go from eight to five. It's nine, nine to five. So let's close our boxing. The reason I have to do that is because Pixelmator is fussy and will crash on me if I have too many things open. And sometimes I lose work and it's incredibly maddening. All right. So let's make a new thing for Skittles. This is the book template here. Skittles. Am I gonna get like sued by Mars for putting this survival thing in does it because it looks too much like Skittles I don't know I guess I'll find out the hard way all right By the way I had I wanted to put Disney screenshots I wanted to screenshot Disney movies to put it into the post which I did But I you can't even screenshot a Disney movie on your computer. It's so creepy you try I can screenshot anything. It's just like I can take it. And suddenly it's like screenshots just came out black. That's really intense. And so I had to take pictures of it with my phone. Not even going to begin to try putting them in the actual book. Okay, so I think I have an idea. I think I'm going to do this. Sloppy. So I think just... So what I think I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put this one in the text I'm gonna be like, you know when you're blah blah and you're gonna show this and I'm gonna be like here's what's really going on and then I'll put this So I think that can work So let's just say skittles 2 and then skittles 1 is gonna be just this skittles 1 Cool Okay, making some progress. Let's do a real drawing because I've been tweaking existing drawings, which has to be done, but it's kind of easy. But I'm also exhausted. I didn't sleep very much last night because I was getting ready for this and finishing my writing revision, which is why I can finally start drawings today. I'm going to do one more real drawing. Then we're going to go and procrastinate. Or it's more of a celebration because I'm going to be done with drawings for the day. And then I'm gonna sleep a full night tonight, and tomorrow we're gonna have a huge drawing day. Starting around noon, Eastern Time, until like, maybe midnight. And then same thing Wednesday. Two huge drawing days coming up. And we're gonna knock out a ton. Um, so for the last drawing today, what we're gonna do, um, is the primitive mind the survival monkey. So I think what you mean is the instant gratification monkey. And the answer is, yes, but... Basically, the primitive mind is the generalized concept of your pre-programmed kind of primitive animal software. And so many of the times we're being self-defeating in life, it's because our prefrontal cortex are kind of part of our brain that knows what's going on, at least. And the part that kind of is saying we should be working, you know, for the, you know, hard now because we want to stay on, we don't want to be panicking in the deadline. And the part that says we shouldn't eat those Skittles. Or the part that says we shouldn't text and drive. Right? Because all of this is very logical. It's in a battle against this primitive software that is not understanding the world it's in. It doesn't get that Skittles are not really nutritious fruit. It's not evil. It's just it was programmed for a world where the only thing that tasted like that was a really good thing to eat. And it doesn't understand long-term planning. If the dopamine reward isn't immediate, it can't think that far into the future. So it doesn't understand why we would work on some awful project. It's not. We're not panicking yet or anything. And it doesn't understand why we shouldn't text and drive. Because in this world, that wasn't dangerous. The primitive mind is super scared of a snake or a spider or heights. Because those things are pre-programmed into its fear settings. But texting and driving isn't pre-programmed into its fear settings. We should be so much more horrified. There should be horror movies. Instead of having, you know, oh, there's a werewolf or there's a serial killer. This horror movie should be oh my god the person's texting and driving right because that's the scariest thing that is the way you're gonna you could die right now doing this But our primitive mind doesn't get it so we do it right so this is the self-defeating thing that we all have and I think it's this battle in a way it's a power struggle and the instant gratification monkey is my depiction of one part of this struggle procrastination is one element of this struggle The primitive mind, higher mind that I've done for this book is the generalized concept that you can apply to all kinds of parts of life, if that makes sense. Will I be doing a book signing in New York City? Yeah, I'll be doing definitely some really fun book events. I don't know why yet, but we'll try to get creative and do some interesting things. I hope you guys come. All right. Take the border off the survival image. Let's see what you're talking about. By the way, your suggestions have been awesome all day. I like genuinely it's genuinely helpful to have I should always do this to just like sometimes you just don't know either someone has a creative idea that you just missed or you just don't know you can't decide and getting a second opinion super helpful okay where did I put this what is what is Kelly talking about here take the border off the survival image candy yeah you know what oh here's the thing then you got floating arms I don't know about that let's see Floating arms, I'm not so sure about. That little line on the left won't be there. I don't think you can have... I like the concept. I like how you're thinking. But I don't think that left arm works, unfortunately. So I think we have to have this. But maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. Alright. It's also just unsatisfying here. This little lineup is really... This is the kind of thing I've consistently been like... I'll just like I'm not gonna worry about the lining up right now. I'll do that sometime. Well like when is that time? Sometimes it has to just be that time like otherwise the book is gonna have misaligned things. Okay. All right. Let's get back out of here. All right. We're gonna do one last thing. And this is the first time today I think we're doing a drawing that's getting into kind of some of the later parts of the book that are stuff that has nothing to do with the sequel has a lot to do with it but it does not appear in the series at all. This is, I did one chapter, is a kind of story of the Republican Party in the U.S. Which sounds boring, but it's actually, I found it quite interesting. To understand, you know, you live in a world where certain things are a certain way, but how did it get that way? And also, looking at the 60s, the story of the political scene in the 60s is very informative, I think, can help us understand what's going on today. And so the way I talk about political parties in the book is that it's like, you know, we think of them as static and eternal because they move slowly. It changed slowly enough that like, you know, the, you know, 10 or 15 years we've been paying attention or whatever, things haven't changed that much. But like they dramatically change over time. It's just like watching plants grow. It's hard to see in real time. But if you take a big zoom out and look at history, it's like, oh, wow. This thing like condensed it like congealed and condensed and then this thing split off and that's why it looks this way. So what happened, at least the way I looked is I consider political parties more like shape shifting amoebas. Like kind of these oozy things that adjust and adjust based on what the other one is doing and adjust based on the times to encompass different portions of the country or to encompass different values. I mean, you know, abortion wasn't even a hot political topic like 40 years ago. You know, Christians weren't more Republican than they were Democrat not that long ago. This is a fact a lot of people don't even realize. Like the Civil Rights Act that was voted on in 1964, which people think of today, would be like, oh, the Democrats would be pushing hard for that and the Republicans would be resisting it. Not true. It was like equal and if anything, the Republicans actually voted more, more higher percentage of Republicans voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act than Democrats, partially because of this alliance Democrats had with the Southern Democrats. So we won't get into all this now, but I think it's interesting and it doesn't have to be so divisive. It doesn't have to be discussed in such a tense tribal way. It's just interesting looking at, you know, political theory and watching how this stuff evolves. One of the illustrations I do in this chapter is I illustrate the Republicans in the 60s, the Republican amoeba. And it was pretty horizontal, meaning it's spanned all the way from kind of progressive, progressives, to very conservatives. It was very, you know, now, you know, these things are more, parties are more condensed, right? And they don't overlap as much. But back then, you know, there was a lot of overlap. There were a lot of Republicans that were much more progressive than the most conservative Democrats. Where are we on the agenda? Oh, good question. Okay, we are into drawing. And then we're going to do one more bout of... We're going to do a good night procrastination. And that's going to be the end for today. Let's see, we've had a nice little day here, haven't we? Okay, so right now we're on step 15. One last drawing. What do you think Democrats and Republicans are both controlled by the elite? That's a totally reasonable thing to think. I don't know truthfully I didn't come out of this book with a ton of really strong political opinions about like left and right I just didn't try I tried not to focus on that because it's I was so focused on the bigger what I think is the bigger picture of like high and low But yeah, I mean I think I think political parties are always very beholden to the elite parts of their society for lots of reasons. And I think it's a big problem now, yeah, I don't disagree. Okay, let's figure out how we want to draw this. All right, so I'm gonna make some circles to determine about the size of the, oh no, you get over here. You're supposed to be in the other space. How you got back over here. All right. So we're going to go here. We're going to go Republican amoeba. And this is about 1960, maybe the late 50s, early 60s, before things got very shaken up in a very intense way, which is kind of the early roots of how we ended up where we are today. All right. ellipse shape. So what we've got here is, let's say we've got progressive. This is a progressive. Moderates was the biggest group. That's a little too big, maybe. Then we've got Stalwarts. This is based on a book by something Reichly. I forget his. Oh, James Reichly. A. James Reichly wrote an interesting book on it. He wrote it. What's interesting is reading books. that were written. Where did the music go? Don't you do this to me right now. And this last drawing. It's hard to tell with lo-fi music when it's glitching or when that's just how it's supposed to sound. So I recommend if anyone's actually interested in like history, like, you know, more modern history. So what I did to understand the 60s politics, I read a couple books by people written in the 60s because they're just so immersed in it. And they're trying to do their job. They're trying to do their best to explain how things got there. But they have some kind of understanding of it that it's really hard for historians today, people who didn't grow up there to understand. On the other hand, today people have more of a bird's eye view. So you want to understand both. You want to read the books that were written. Today I read a great book by Jeffrey Kava Service called something Ruin. What was it called? Rule and Ruin. what's happened to the Republicans. And so again, even now, I'm taking it with a grain of salt. He has his own bias, right? But the key is to read his book, and then also to read The Road to Serfdom, and then also to read this book by A. James Reichly. Different conservatives, different kinds of conservatives, and from different times. So you're getting some people who are really fresh in that moment, and people have a bird's eye view, and you start to get a better picture. But also, I would recommend reading newspapers. It's so interesting. Newspapers.com. is amazing you can go back and read any article from any newspaper basically in you know american newspapers at least going back as long as they were you can read 1800s articles 1900s articles it's just fascinating to look at the ads and the words and how they the tone but um but i read articles from the squabbling of the 1964 election you know like you know in the primaries and again someone's interested in politics i'm sure this sounds supremely boring but i found it super interesting because um you're just getting a feel for, um, for, uh, like what, like, but if you read enough of that, you kind of feel like you own some of the time machine. You're like, oh, wow. This is like, you know, these people were all thought this other group was unreasonable in a way that, you know, so, okay. Let's see. These ended up here somehow. Um, why, why are these all together in here? I don't want them to be. So, um, So we've got the progressives, we've got the immoderates, we've got the stalwarts, and then we've got the conservatives. And the conservatives was actually the smallest group in 1960. Spearheaded by William F. Buckley, it was kind of a new group of young radical people. Radical in a right-wing way. And it was very much not representative. Most of the Republicans hated the conservatives. or the books I read call them the conservatives or you can another book, Righteous Book calls them the fundamentalists. Which I think is probably a little bit better description. Okay. So why is the music stopping? Why? Everything's being so mean to me for no reason here. So let's draw an amoeba around these. I don't like that. See how that looks. It's amazing when you get fatigued. It's amazing how much harder it is to do basic things like this. It's incredible. Energy is just amazing how much energy is this finite thing. When you're low on it, it affects everything. It's crazy. Okay. So let's get rid of the circles. Does this look like an Amoeba? Kind of, right? I kind of like that. That works. All right. So now, I'd like to color code it, but it's not red to blue. I don't really know what the color... I don't really know what... I don't know if I should color code it, but either way. So now, let's try something simple first. Progressives. Stalwarts. Stalwarts was like Taft. William Taft? Taft, the president Taft's son. He was like the, you know, they were principled, kind of pretty conservative, but they weren't like super tribal and they, you know, they were less extreme than the fundamentalists. I think I'm gonna call them the fundamentalists, not the conservatives. Better description. Okay, let's make it a little more. Moderates was defined by, you know, the leader of the moderates was Eisenhower. He was the president coming off his presidency at the time. So, you know, the moderates were large and in charge of this party at the time. Progressives was like Rockefeller, Romney's, Mitt Romney's dad, classic. Republican progressive. And it's like, what does it mean to be a progressive conservative? Which is what they are. What it means is this is Teddy Roosevelt. This is Benjamin Disraeli. It's the concept of a conservative who says change is inevitable. And it's not bad. It's just that change should be done the conservative way where it's done cautiously and it's done in a way that vigorously upholds kind of the underpinnings, the core values. While a more radical progressivism says, fuck the underpinnings and the core values, they're part of the problem. Let's upend even more. It's much more revolutionary. Progressive conservatives are not revolutionary. They're saying, let's make changes slowly and deliberately and cautiously and uphold our core values. And the Democrats were more like, you know, the New Deal is more like, let's shake everything up. And then you get even more radical and it's like, you know, you get to Marxism where it's like, fuck. Fuck the whole system. It's all bad. It's all rigged. And so it's interesting. I mean, I think we did. I think I don't want to go to political rant, but I think we it's what you really want is you want this whole group in the room. You want the hardcore radicals being like, because like if we're missing something big. then they're going to be the ones to point that out. You know, you know, what do we what what what do we like all think is just a good value that's actually something we should be changing or a good system. And then you want the the you want the progressive conservatives who are saying, well, let's be careful with our values. And then you want the hardcore conservatives that are saying, no, no, no, like, let's not have any change at all. Or let's go back to the way things work. Because sometimes you did make a mistake and you should go back to the way things were in one way or another. So I think. This is why I think the 50s and 60s were a little healthier because you had all these groups kind of in the big round table of different voices You've had since is that this ideological Realignment where you have the ideological purification of the parties all the progressives went became Democrats all the conservatives became Republicans and they got more extreme both of these and so you had you know, there was no more There was no more deliberating within the party or much less and that's not good I think that just turns now into just kind of war of attrition tribalism digging your heels in who has more power at any given you know stage let's try to do everything we can to like overpower the other you know and so part of what I'm trying to figure out in this book is how does that happen and can we can we maybe do something about it um okay so now I'm gonna do some some lines And then the question is going to be, do we want color? Because the problem with color, obviously this would look good with color, right? We'd like a nice color gradient. It would be pretty. The issue is colors have a lot of meaning in politics. And I don't want to be confusing. I don't want to give information that I'm not trying to give. These words weren't so long. I could put them inside the amoeba, which would look cool, but they're just too long. Okay. Arrows a little sloppy. This is if you missed it before this is my insane dock This is my dock of insanity my my beautiful mind like room where That would be a piece of the court testimony if I murder someone All right, that's where I keep a lot of clippings like an arrow I use arrows a lot rather than have to go dig it up. I will just One time just save the arrow Okay. Arrows is one time I often don't go for like the hand-drawn thing because I don't know. Sometimes it's just nice to have a nice clean arrow. Let's see which I like better here. Do I even need this stuff at the bottom? Do we need more conservative or is it obvious? It kind of mussies it up a little bit. I think it's nice. Just when in doubt, go for clarity, right? Like if it helps make one... contingent of readers a little clearer on what the hell's going on with this amoeba then it's worth it right? All right um now do we make it pretty? Let's just see what it would look like. So uh so let's do this let's go over here let's fill it and now it's not blue to red is it? Were they blue back then or is Democrat blue or is progressive blue? I feel like it's I feel like blue is just a color of the Democrats. It's not like a conservative color. So it's not blue to red here. There's no blue involved because these aren't Democrats. But maybe it is a lighter red to a deeper red. That could work. Damn. Look how much prettier it is. This is how it would appear on the blog and this is in the book. It's hideous. I hate it. Okay. But now like what are we doing here? Just making this like weird fleshy color for no reason. This looks kind of like blood. I don't know. I'm not sure how I feel. I could just go neutral and just do like, you know, yellow to green. But then what are we doing? Why? Just to make it pretty. And yes, I've been streaming since 1.30. So it's a good day's work. Tomorrow is going to be, I think, even longer. The next two days are going to be beasts. So I hope you come hang out again. We'll do another crossword puzzle each day. All right, let me try something else here. I do like prettiness. Like it would be so nice to kind of be like, oh, see, isn't that pretty? But then what's yellow here, right? It can't have one, like that's obviously much prettier. I mean, the good news is that yellow has no meaning in the book. It's the one color that does it because green and orange are high and low, red and blue are political. Purple is political. And so the yellow involvement signals to the reader, okay, don't overthink this. This is just pretty. But yeah, you know, how much better is that than just this, right? I think I'm gonna leave it. Whoever suggested color. Pink to red, Bill Wilson thinks. God damn it, Bill. I was just about to be decisive. Pink to red, let's try that. I'm gonna save this one. Come back to it. What is this? Hideous. Unbelievable. Look at this. This is what I would have been on the blog. So delicious. And in the book, this. You really can't do pink. Pink isn't an option. That's the problem. This gradient's a lot less fun when I have to use book colors, those four colors. Yeah, I don't really know what's going on here, unfortunately. It just looks orangey. It doesn't look red. You can't get red from that. printer with the cyan and the magenta. I mean, I could just be more subtle about it, you know, and just be kind of like, like this. But then like what? Progressives are just kind of like, why, why is it? Why are those the colors? You know, I don't think it quite works. Yellow is libertarian. Yeah. Yeah, but no one, right, exactly. No one's going to get confused in this particular case. Oh, so much nicer. And, you know, I'm partial to this one because this one, look, here's. Blog color, book color. Blog, book. It's just not that different. It's a little less nice, but barely. While the other one, while this one is, you know, well, if I had the pink in there. Let's see. Any other opinions here? I think the yellow looks great. Oh, thank you, Nikhil. Yeah, the psychology of color is fascinating. This book was really tricky because I couldn't, usually I can just do pretty things. If you look at my spectrums on my, you know, I'll just pick colors that look nice, but you can't do that here because I had so much there's so much meaning in every color in this book which is part of why you're gonna have to pay eight bucks or so more for the book because it's it's it's gonna be a and I and and there's like a three month delay because I was insistent on having it a full color book because it's just so important to this it loses you can't tell the story nearly as well without color all right No, you can't make it obnoxiously bright. It just doesn't work. This is just a limit. There's a ceiling on brightness in the book Okay, I like it. I like it. It's I catch it and you turn the page and you see this bright orange green thing for me or Yellow green thing would just make me kind of like oh, what's that versus if it's just this I'd be like Some like diagram versus here. I'm like it's over having fun. All right. I'm feeling pretty good. I like what we just did I'm happy about it. So let's save this. Cool. We made some good progress today. Let's see, what did we do today? Let's count. We did one, two, three, five, six, seven, eight and a half, because that was just altering an existing drawing. Nine, also altering an existing drawing. Ten, eleven. I think we got like 11 and a half real drawings done today, which is good. I'm going to try to do at least 15 or 16 tomorrow. And at least the same month on Wednesday. I'll be better rested. All right. So let's procrastinate. Good night, procrastination. We are in the last chapter of the day. So what are we doing now? We did global. We did wiki roulette. We could do a little more of that. Let's see what... Old Kotki's up too. One of my favorite procrastination sites. Oh shit. Oh, must be .org. I would normally just have it obviously saved, but I'm using Firefox because I didn't want to use my normal browser streaming. Okay, Hank Green is saying some shit. Sometime. Videos. Oh, look at this. Look at this bamboo structure. Oh, this is bullshit. Look at this. Copying the wait-put-y font. Cuz that is what if you combine Helvetica and Comic Sans you end up with the wait but why font? This is some bullshit right here. Let me just see if I can right save that anymore wait But why font I think I tweeted something about it once. Oh Yeah, look at this Look at this and now look at this Give me a break get out of here. Do you know how long it took me to do all those special characters? Like I'm never going to use pi, but I had to do it and I had to draw like 50 times to get it right. That nine, the nine and the six forever. All right, let's keep seeing what cocky is. Oh, here, this is where I got this the other day. I tweeted this out. It's sick. Here, let's do the zoom in. That's what we can do here. Zoom in on the image here. So check this out. This is the highest resolution image ever taken of the sun. Okay, we can get rid of this. Oh, it doesn't matter. Here, I'll turn this off. I don't need to move this anymore. This is the highest res image ever of the sun. And it is so rad. Look at this thing. It's so big. Now, here's the craziest thing. Check this out. Earth to scale. I mean, look at that. It looks like, you know, it's like your brain wants to be like, oh, it's like Earth is in the distance. No, no, no. This is if they are right next to each other. Equally far away from us. Earth. and the sun. So when you look at like one of these like little circles down here is the full size of the sun. I mean, sorry, it's the full size of the earth. And then here, look what one of the commenters on my tweet discovered is the sun god is just there, just out in the open, possibly giving us the finger over here. But there's a sun god in the sun, who knew? And like, look at this shit over here, this hectic stuff on the left. Imagine it's an explosion like ten times bigger than the earth. Like Africa, if you put Africa, which is a huge continent, on this it would be like one of these tiny little dots. It's just really nuts. So this is your sun and it is, you know, and I find it cool that we can see a star up close. It's like, you know, you see... You see the stars in the sky, and it's like, we have one, we know really what they look like. This is what stars all look like when you get close, is this hectic shit. So, I feel like this is a good note to end on here. Look at this tornado up here, next to the Earth. That tornado is, you could slide six Earths, five Earths right into it. So, pretty crazy. Alright, well, thank you. I had fun. We will... do a lot more things tomorrow. I'm going to come up with a bunch of good procrastination activities. We're going to get 16 drawings done and we're going to do a bunch of procrastination because I'm going to do at least 12 hours tomorrow, which is 50% longer than I want today. Plus, I won't have as many technical difficulties, hopefully. Plus, we'll have done a lot of the early explaining because people have been here already. Thanks. I'm happy you liked it and I will do more live streams in the future. I loved the chat today. I only had to ban one person. So good job not being assholes. And that was just because he was like spamming at the very beginning with like some annoying political thing. So yeah. Okay. So I think I'm going to post this. So it's up on the blog. I mean, sorry. So it's up on YouTube. I think we're just going to make it like so you can, you know, someone didn't see anything and they want to see any parts of it they can watch. And now I have to figure out how to stop a live stream. I don't want to fuck this up. Get out of here. Okay, so if you were to stop a live stream, exit? Auto stop. No, stop streaming. Okay, I found the button. All right, hope you come back tomorrow.

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

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)