Antidote to Slop: An Archive of Life-Changing Material
Updating regularly - new concept.
Last updated - 14 June 2026
Added categories for each documentary
New documentaries:
The Kid Stays in the Picture (1hr 33min)
Momentum Generation (1hr 44min)
New written format:
Mr. Jaynes’ Wild Ride (20 min)
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Amount of content in hours
Written format:
Life: 10hr 49min
Art: 7hr 51min
Interviews: 1hr 32min
Memos: 3hr 42min
Biz / career: 5hr 28min
Video content:
YouTube: 26hr 06min
Life: 5hr 04min
Art: 4hr 43min
Interviews: 12hr 18min
Biz / career: 4hr 01min
Documentaries: 70hr 41min
Total: 124hr 36min
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Archive Of Life-Changing Material
Written content
Life
Mr. Jaynes’ Wild Ride (20 min)
The Only Thing to Do (4 min)
The Self-Help Trap: What 20+ Years of “Optimizing” Has Taught Me - Tim Ferriss (20 min)
The Real Heroes Are Dead (35 min)
Honesty and the Human Body (15 min)
Mental Wealth (12 min)
Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole (36 min)
50 Ideas That Changed My Life (5 min)
A Project of One Own (5 min)
Random Ideas About Life (4 min)
Advice That Actually Worked For Me (10 min)
The Inner Ring (8 min)
School is Not Enough (15 min)
Why I Write - George Orwell (15 min)
Playing Doc Game (1hr 10min)
Willingness to look stupid (8 min)
Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas (10 min)
What is Hedonic Adaptation and How Can it Turn You Into a Sucka? (7 min)
Industrial Society and Its Future (1hr 10min)
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)
Dog Story - Scott Adams (3 min)
How Social Media Shortens Your Life (20 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)
Why You Need F-You Money (4 min)
Today You, Tomorrow Me (3 min)
Childhoods of exceptional people (14 min)
Art
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1 hr)
Federer as Religious Experience - David Foster Wallace (30 min)
How Pixar Foster Collective Creativity - Ed Catmull (20 min)
The Man Who Ate Hollywood - Mark Seal (1hr 15min)
Daft Punk: An In-Depth History (25 min)
100 greatest artists - Rolling Stone (1hr 40min)
Make Something Wonderful - Leslie Berlin (1hr 30min)
Business / Career
Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (35 min)
How to Do Great Work - Paul Graham (35 min)
Lessons from Keith Rabois (8 min)
Patrick Colisson - Fast (8 min)
GOLDEN RULES FOR MAKING MONEY - P.T. Barnum (1hr 10min)
Ben Horowitz - Nobody Cares (7 min)
CEOs Don’t Steer - Venkat (12 min)
How CEOs Manage Time (25 min)
We Don’t Sell Saddles Here (7 min)
The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” (20 min)
Productivity (15 min)
Brian Armstrong of Coinbase with an email to a new PM (2 min)
Career Advice (4 min)
Interviews
Memos
The Same River Twice - David Quammen (12 min)
Memos from the Chairman (Bear Stearns) - Alan C. Greenberg (1 hr)
Jobs On Flash - Steve Jobs (7 min)
Tidal Wave - Bill Gates (10 min)
The Ugly - Andrew Bosworth (4 min)
How we work and why - Hunter Harrison (1hr 40min)
The Commoditization of the Starbucks Experience - Howard Schultz (5 min)
Misc
Video content
Life
The biggest lies we tell ourselves all start with “tomorrow” (35 min)
Off the Grid with Thomas Massie (47 min)
Top 10 Life Lessons - Robert Joss (47 min)
This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech (23 min)
A day in the life of Japan’s most famous grandpa’s hot dog shop (30 min)
“I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been” (3 min)
Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t (1hr 15min)
Anton Kreil - Respect Money & Be Indifferent Towards It (17 min)
An old mans advice. (5 min)
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him (2 min)
What Truly Determines Your Future - Jim Rohn Seminar (16 min)
Art
David Bowie - On Why You Should Never Play To The Gallery (1 min)
Everything is a Remix (1hr 5min)
David Lynch - Meditation, Creativity, Peace; Documentary of a 16 Country Tour (1hr 10min)
Tom Ford Documentary (41 min)
The Day You Became a Better Writer -- Writing Tips from Dilbert Creator Scott Adams (30 min)
The privilege of failure (8 min)
“You and Your Research” (45 min)
Interviews
Interview with Luigi Colani (45 min)
Jim Simons - Numberphile (1hr)
A conversation about advertising, with David Ogilvy (55 min)
When You Truly Work for Yourself (3 min)
The One Percent (1hr 15min)
Hunter Thompson profile (5 min)
Steve Jobs - The Lost Interview (1hr 6min)
A 28-year-old Steve Jobs gives a talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen (55 min)
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)
Biz / career
Bankrupt - Pan Am (18 min)
Competition is for losers (4 min)
Peter Thiel - Original Thinking (2 min)
“In Search of Excellence” at Apple Computer in 1984 (11 min)
Phone 1 - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 (1hr 20min)
The 9 traits Sam Altman looks for to identify founders who can build a $10 billion company (5 min)
Secrets of success in 8 words (4 min)
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment - Charlie Munger (1hr 15min)
Documentaries
Biz / Career
Startup.com (1hr 47min)
Icahn (1hr 41min)
Agnelli (1hr 43min)
Inside Job (1hr 49min)
Print the Legend (1hr 40min)
General Magic (1hr 32min)
The Pixar Story (1hr 24min)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (1hr 50min)
Sour Grapes (1hr 25min)
One Of One (1hr 20min)
Rams (1hr 15min)
Art
David Lynch: The Art Life (1hr 28min)
The Salt of the Earth (1hr 50min)
Man on Wire (1hr 34min)
The Kingdom Of Dreams & Madness (1hr 58min)
Valentino: The Last Emperor (1hr 40min)
Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (1hr 57min)
Nick Cave 20000 Days on Earth (1hr 37min)
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (1hr 43min)
Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (4hr 36min)
The Kid Stays in the Picture (1hr 33min)
His Way (1hr 23min)
Jiro Dream Of Sushi (1hr 22min)
Adventure & Sports
Momentum Generation (1hr 44min)
180 South (1hr 26min)
Coyote: The Mike Plant Story (1hr 46min)
Dogtown And Z-Boys (1hr 30min)
Riding Giants (1hr 41min)
Grizzly Man (1hr 44min)
Deep Water (1hr 9min)
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (1hr 59min)
When We Were Kings (1hr 27min)
Senna (1hr 46min)
Icarus (2hr 0min)
Choke (1hr 38min)
Shelby American: The Carroll Shelby Story (1hr 58min)
Life
Psywar - The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (1hr 39min)
Cocaine Cowboys (1hr 58min)
The Fog Of War (1hr 47min)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (1hr 35min)
Humans Need Not Apply (15 min)
Thank You For Smoking (Technically a documentary) (1hr 32min)
Library
Life & Philosophy
Art
Biographies, autobiographies & things that actually happened
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
The Mastermind: A True Story of Murder, Empire, and a New Kind of Crime Lord
Biz / career
UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship - M.J.DeMarco
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Fiction
The Magus (as recommended by Mr. Landshark)
Shogun: A Novel of Japan (as recommended by Mr. TJ)
Note: The rare PDFs & books section has moved to the chat.
Disclaimer: None of this is to be legal or financial advice of any kind.




14.6.2026 - Update #13 is released.
New formatting is on.
bookmarked!
this is so great, as always :)