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So what would it look like if we took death wellness as seriously as we take fitness? Or nutrition? Or mental health? At the very least, we might live life more fully. At most, we could start to see death as a celebration, especially as our lifespans are expected to increase over the next few decades.

“If you're attuned to the thing you're interested in, you see breadcrumbs that are interesting everywhere. People like this tend to be on Twitter. Twitter is a powerful place because it's like a matching algorithm for people like this, but it's everywhere, not just Twitter.”

The ability for writers to give status and privileges to loyal fans (e.g., sub-only badges and comment moderation).

The human brain is not designed to absorb all of the world's breaking news and 24/7 emergencies, injected straight into the skull with clickbait headlines. If you pay attention to that stuff, even if you have a sound mind and body, it will eventually drive you insane.

This model isn't only creating a loyal audience but making money. Barstool Sports' annual revenue in 2019 was between $90M - $100M (Barstool Sports was purchased by Penn Gaming for $450MM in 2020). A majority of the revenue came from podcasts, merchandising, and gambling. Yes, some of their revenue is ad-supported, but it's a unique model. Advertis... See more

Tony Fadell was hired to create the iPod in late January 2001. Steve Jobs greenlit the project in March 2001. They hired a contract manufacturer in April 2001, announced the product in October 2001, and shipped the first production iPod to customers in November 2001, around 290 days after getting started.

And while we have done pretty well with respect to doers in the last few decades, we’ve done much worse with thinkers. Our world, since the second half of the previous century, has in fact moved to being mostly about doers and not thinkers.