Antidote to Slop: An Archive of Life-Changing Material

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The Internet is dead. The best we can do? Try to save it. We are bringing you a curated collection of written and video content created by people who have made a real impact. This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly. To support the project - make sure to share it by clicking the button below. Have a collection of your own? Feel free to DM us or post a comment. We would love to share it.

Amount of content in hours

Written format:

• Life: 4hr 12min

• Art: 5hr 43min

• Biz / career: 1hr 22min

Video content:

• YouTube: 15hr 25min

• Interviews: 4hr 42min

• Documentaries: 22hr 20min

Total: 53hr 45min

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Archive Of Life Changing Material

Written content

Life:

• Notes on Internet Addiction (2 min)

• Playing to win - David Sirlin (5 min)

• Do It Now - Steve Pavlina (15 min)

• 101 Additional Advice - Kevin Kelly (12 min)

• Why am I always late (10 min)

• Doing well in your courses - Andrej Karpathy (5 min)

• Dog Story - Scott Adams (3 min)

• How Social Media Shortens Your Life (20 min)

• I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life (4 min)

• 100 Ways To Live Better - Putanumonit (15 min)

• Keep your identity small (5 min)

• Politics And English Language (18 min)

• 100 Tips For A Better Life (12 min)

• Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life (5 min)

• How to Time Travel (2 min)

• Principles - Nabeel S. Qureshi (3 min)

• 100 ways to live better - Lesswrong (16 min)

• Ten Step Nightlife Preparation Routine - G Manifesto (8 min)

• 1,000 True Fans - Kevin Kelly (12 min)

• FUNDAMENTALS -- NEVILLE (5 min)

• The days are long, but the decades are short (6 min)

• Why You Need F-You Money (4 min)

• $1 Million, 10 Years, Zero Excuses - WSP (12 min)

• High Agency in 30 minutes - George Mack (30 min)

• Today You, Tomorrow Me (3 min)

• How to Get Lucky: Focus On The Fat Tails (5 min)

• If Charlie Munger Didn’t Quit When… - Joshua Kennon (2 min)

• Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz (7 min)

• Childhoods of exceptional people (14 min)

Art:

• Hayao Miyazaki: 9 Creative Lessons (15 min)

• The Man Who Ate Hollywood (1hr 15min)

• Daft Punk: An In-Depth History (25 min)

• Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (35 min)

• 100 greatest artists (1hr 40min)

• There’s no speed limit - Derek Sivers (3 min)

• Make Something Wonderful - Leslie Berlin (1hr 30min)

Biz / Career:

• The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework (5 min)

• The Ultimate Guide for Becoming an Idea Machine (10 min)

• We Don’t Sell Saddles Here (7 min)

• The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” (20 min)

• Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet (12 min)

• Productivity (15 min)

• Brian Armstrong of Coinbase with an email to a new PM (2 min)

• Career Advice (4 min)

• Marc Andreessen on talent and hiring (7 min)

Misc:

• Resource section

• Valve’s Handbook for New Employees

• The Last Question By Isaac Asimov

• Meta Redbook

• Netflix culture

• The Final Hours Of Half-Life

• MrBeast Production Handbook

• The Collected Works of Ray Peat

• Mindset Rewiring Workbook

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Video content

YouTube:

• “You and Your Research” (45 min)

• The Day You Became a Better Writer -- Writing Tips from Dilbert Creator Scott Adams (30 min)

• What Truly Determines Your Future - Jim Rohn Seminar (16 min)

• Hunter Thompson profile (5 min)

• Jay Z at studio making The Black Album (23 min)

• Peter Thiel - Original Thinking (2 min)

• Secrets of success in 8 words (4 min)

• The Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger (1hr 15min)

• Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t (1hr 15min)

• A day in the life of Japan’s most famous grandpa’s hot dog shop (30 min)

• David Lynch - Meditation, Creativity, Peace; Documentary of a 16 Country Tour (1hr 10min)

• An old mans advice. (5 min)

• Tom Ford Documentary (41 min)

• Felix Dennis Words Of Wisdom Can You Get Rich? (8 min)

• Life lessons from an ad man | Rory Sutherland (19 min)

• Sam Harris basically unlocks the secret to life (4 min)

• The One Percent (1hr 15min)

• Phone 1 - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 (1hr 20min)

• Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him (2 min)

• This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech (23 min)

• Anton Kreil - Respect Money & Be Indifferent Towards It (17 min)

• Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement (15 min)

• “I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been” (3 min)

• Everything is a Remix (1hr 5min)

Interviews:

• John McAfee Wild Interview (21 min)

• Michael Jordan’s Wisdom (21 min)

• The Number 1 Thing People Get Wrong About Happiness - Brian Chesky (1hr 41min)

• Hans Zimmer talks (49 min)

• Kapil Gupta: Conquering the Mind (40 min)

• FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman (1hr 6min)

• What makes a great music producer tick? Brian Eno Interviewed (24 min)

Documentaries:

• Humas Neet Not Apply (15 min)

• Icahn (1hr 41min)

• Agneli (1hr 43min)

• Rams (1hr 15min)

• Inside Job (1hr 49min)

• Valentino: The Last Emperor (1hr 40min)

• Senna (1hr 46min)

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (1hr 50min)

• One Of One (1hr 20min)

• Nick Cave 20000 Days on Earth (1hr 37min)

• Sour Grapes (1hr 25min)

• His Way (1hr 23min)

• Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (1hr 43min)

• Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (4hr 36min)

• The Pixar Story (1hr 24min)

• The Kingdom Of Dreams & Madness (1hr 58min)

• Thank You For Smoking (Technically a documentary) (1hr 32min)