Antidote to Slop: An Archive of Life-Changing Material

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Amount of content in hours

Written format:

• Life: 8hr 39min

• Art: 7hr 38min

• Interviews: 1hr 23min

• Memos: 3hr 36min

• Biz / career: 3hr 57min

Video content:

YouTube: 25hr 21min

• Life: 5hr 04min

• Art: 4hr 43min

• Interviews: 11hr 33min

• Biz / career: 4hr 01min

Documentaries: 45hr 46min

Total: 96hr 36min

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Archive Of Life Changing Material

Written content

Life

• Mental Wealth (12 min)

• 50 Ideas That Changed My Life (5 min)

• A Project of One Own (5 min)

• Random Ideas About Life (4 min)

• Becoming the person who does the thing (5 min)

• Advice That Actually Worked For Me (10 min)

• The Inner Ring (8 min)

• School is Not Enough (15 min)

• Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (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)

• 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

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1 hr)

• Federer as Religious Experience (30 min)

• 10 Principles of Good Design (5 min)

• How Pixar Foster Collective Creativity (20 min)

• 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

• Lessons from Keith Rabois (8 min)

• Morgan Housel - Betting On Things That Never Change (6 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 (12 min)

• How McKinsey Makes Its Own Rules (6 min)

• What it’s like to work for Stripe (4 min)

• Kelly’s 14 Project Management Rules (5 min)

• What if you tried hard? (4 min)

• How CEOs Manage Time (25 min)

• 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)

Interviews

• The Playboy Interview With Miles Davis (15 min)

• The Playboy Interview With Jimmy Carter (1 hr)

• Quiet By Design: Naomi Campbell Interviews Jony Ive (8 min)

Memos

• The Same River Twice - David Quammen (12 min)

• Memos from the Chairman (Bear Stearns) - Alan C. Greenberg (1 hr)

• Bessemer Venture Partners (collection)

• Jobs On Flash (7 min)

• The Internet Services Disruption - Ray Ozzie (18 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

• Resource section

• The Road to Self-Renewal

• State Of Mind - Artbook

• Valve’s Handbook for New Employees

• The Last Question By Isaac Asimov

• Meta Redbook

• Netflix culture

• Mental Models

• The Final Hours Of Half-Life

• MrBeast Production Handbook

• Hubspot Culture Code

• The Personality System (+ prompts)

• Ray Dalio Principles Original Memo

• The Collected Works of Ray Peat

• Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968

• Mindset Rewiring Workbook

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Video content

YouTube

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)

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

• 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)

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

• 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

• Jeff Bezos interview on Starting Amazon (2001) (47 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)

• Sam Altman’s Method for Clear Thinking (5 min)

• 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)

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

• Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement (15 min)

• “In Search of Excellence” at Apple Computer in 1984 (11 min)

• How to start a startup - YC series

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

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

• 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 Misjudgement - Charlie Munger (1hr 15min)

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Documentaries

• Icarus (2hr 0min)

• Cocaine Cowboys (1hr 58min)

• Deep Water (1hr 9min)

• The Last Dance

• Startup.com (1hr 47min)

• The Fog Of War (1hr 47min)

• Print the Legend (1hr 40min)

• Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (1hr 35min)

• Jiro Dream Of Sushi (1hr 22min)

• Man on Wire (1hr 34min)

• Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (1hr 57min)

• The Up Series

• Humas Need 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)

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Library

Life & Philosophy

• How Rich People Think

• The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Take Charge of Your Emotions

• Narcissism: Denial of the True Self

• Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

• On Having No Head

• The Craft of the Warrior

• The War of Art

• The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Art

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being

• Paul McCarthy: Head Space Drawings 1963-2019

• Dieter Rams: The Complete Works

Biographies, autobiographies & things that actually happened

• The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son

• The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa

• When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man

• Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle

• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

• 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

• The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich

• Let My People Go Surfing

• No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes

Biz / career

• How to Get Rich

• UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship - M.J.DeMarco

• The Power Broker

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Fiction

• The Count of Monte Cristo

• The Magus (as recommended by Mr. Landshark)

• Shogun: A Novel of Japan (as recommended by Mr. TJ)