Wait But Why
The Fog
Nine posts on the fog between you and a clear view of your own life -- time, the primitive brain, identity, and how little of it there is left. Ordered to be read, not by date.
- 01 Putting Time In Perspective Start as far out as it goes: the universe on a scale you can hold. 406 words 100%
- 02 Life is a Picture, But You Live in a Pixel Why today feels nothing like the life it is part of. 1,423 words 100%
- 03 Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think The Social Survival Mammoth -- the model the rest of the series stands on. 4,249 words 100%
- 04 Religion for the Non-Religious The fog, the ladder, and the Higher Being. The centre of the series. 8,559 words · 34 ✎ 100%
- 05 What Makes You You? Teleporters, the Ship of Theseus, and who exactly is doing the climbing. 5,175 words 9%
- 06 Why Procrastinators Procrastinate The Instant Gratification Monkey, and the two selves again. 1,427 words 100%
- 07 How to Beat Procrastination The practical half: Dark Playground, Critical Entrance, doing the thing. 3,649 words 100%
- 08 Your Life in Weeks One life, drawn as a grid of boxes. Under a thousand words. 1,124 words · 1 🔖 100%
- 09 The Tail End How much of the time with the people you love is already spent. 1,140 words 100%
- 10 How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) The Yearning Octopus: what you actually want, under everything told to you. 15,973 words