advice
2:31:44This is Financial Advice
8.4M views • 3 years ago
Folding Ideas
Dan Olson's long Folding Ideas video on the GameStop meme stock phenomenon, its online community and the conspiracy thinking around it. It runs over two hours.
45:23BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
4.1M views • 19 years ago
Flex Your Rights
A 45-minute Flex Your Rights documentary on how to deal with police in three situations: traffic stops, encounters at home, and on the street. It presents practical advice on asserting constitutional rights and refusing searches.
1:15:47Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer
582K views • 4 years ago
Karol Jałochowski
A 2017 documentary filmed at the Santa Fe Institute in which novelist Cormac McCarthy talks with SFI's David Krakauer. They discuss isolation, mathematics, character and the nature of the unconscious.
Topic match · Literature & writing craft
37:51BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content
6.1M views • 7 years ago
Max Joseph
A short film by Max Joseph about his anxiety in bookstores and how to read more books amid constant streaming, social media and news. He looks for ways to rebalance his content diet in favor of reading.
Topic match · Literature & writing craft
2:18:23Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
19M views • 4 years ago
Folding Ideas
Dan Olson's roughly two-hour video essay critiques NFTs, cryptocurrency, and Web3, covering their technical, economic, and ideological flaws. It is heavily sourced and ends with the advice to ask whether a project needs crypto to work.