Sublime

For a long time, Donaldson admits in a number of podcast appearances, he was afraid of putting anything complex in his videos — what if a viewer didn’t get it and stopped watching? Donaldson might very well be an advertiser’s absolute dream, the logical endpoint of an internet that’s been flattened into a samey, straightforward sludge of optimized ... See more

“I think of Patrick as an idea archivist. So often, we’re looking for the next new thing. What I’ve learned from Patrick, is that there’s a lot of virtue to going back in time and looking at the ideas that have been forgotten.” – David Perell

Source: The A.V. Club

Now, Mr. Burback goes months between posts. The videos tend to be either sprawling, deeply researched video essays — about the state of late-night television, ghost kitchens or the Apple Vision Pro — or strange travelogues, taking him on road trips to every Rainforest Cafe or Margaritaville in the country.

His viewers have responded, with his ghost ... See more

There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.