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2026 2

  1. If You Want a Signed Book From Me, You Are Running Out of Time
  2. Everyone is Wrong About AI Except Me

2025 3

  1. Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen
  2. To Save the World, Save Yourself
  3. In Which I Declare War On Beloved Entertainer Bo Burnham

2024 7

  1. Here's 60 hours of me talking about mildly interesting subjects
  2. Is Deadpool & Wolverine a chilling symbol of society's decline?
  3. THE NEW BOOK IS OUT RIGHT NOW! FINALLY.
  4. Clearing up confusion about my old pseudonym
  5. Can a TV show save your sanity?
  6. Is Modern Mass Media A Mind Prison?
  7. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

2023 6

  1. News on the next novel! Links to my many podcasts! Signed books!
  2. Celebrity Worship is Weird and Will Only Get Weirder
  3. A Creepy Question We'll All Have To Answer Soon
  4. Is Your Personality A 'Mind Virus?'
  5. False Binaries Are Making Us Miserable
  6. How Disgust Is Weaponized To Control You

2022 11

  1. I have answered every possible question you could ever have about me
  2. The 12 Weirdest and/or Creepiest Facts I Know
  3. Have You Experienced This Glitch in Reality?
  4. The Stupid Apocalypse Fantasies Driving Us Toward Civil War
  5. The 25 Most-Highlighted Passages From the John Dies at the End Novels
  6. 13 Tips For Dealing With Awful People
  7. The Internet's Social Status Games Are Driving Us Crazy
  8. Is Success a Matter of Getting Addicted to the Right Things?
  9. Every Argument We're Having Is Secretly About One Thing
  10. So You Want To Be A Famous Content Creator...
  11. My Next Novel is Up for Pre-Order, See the Cover!

2021 11

  1. How 'Good Vs Evil' Narratives Are Breaking Your Brain
  2. All of My 2021 Podcast Appearances in One Place
  3. 10 Tips for Real-Life Socializing (for the Internet-Poisoned Brain)
  4. All of my novels are now out as new editions, with my real name on the cover
  5. Stop Telling Me Humanity Is Doomed
  6. Can We Mock and/or Threaten People Into Changing Their Beliefs?
  7. If You're Scared of Competition, the World Will Eat You Alive
  8. I was David Wong
  9. A Case Study In Freaky YouTube Algorithms
  10. The Gravitational Pull of Anxiety
  11. I don't know how to delete this