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Matt Lakeman

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51 from 22 Jan 2020 to 26 Mar 2026
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2026 2

  1. Infinite Jest Extraction
  2. Notes on Afghanistan

2025 2

  1. Notes on Tunisia
  2. Conquest of the Incas

2024 6

  1. Notes on Trinidad and Tobago
  2. Notes on Guyana
  3. Notes on Tajikistan
  4. Notes on El Salvador
  5. Other Notes on West Africa
  6. Notes on the Ivory Coast

2023 6

  1. Notes on Guinea
  2. Notes on Ghana
  3. Notes on Mauritania
  4. Notes on The Gambia
  5. Notes on Benin
  6. Notes on Nigeria

2022 4

  1. Notes on Saudi Arabia
  2. Notes On The Balkans
  3. Notes on Ukraine
  4. Notes on the Yucatan

2021 5

  1. Notes on the Dominican Republic
  2. Notes on Panama
  3. Shadow of the Sun
  4. Notes on Peru
  5. Everything You Might Want to Know about Whaling

2020 26

  1. The 24 Hour “Do Nothing” Challenge
  2. The Blind, Alone, and Confused for 24 Hours Challenge
  3. Thoughts on Meaning and Writing
  4. Everything You Need to Know About Chinese People (According to the US Government in 1943)
  5. A Deep Dive into K-pop
  6. Notes on Spain
  7. How Much Would You Need to be Paid to Live on a Deserted Island for 1.5 Years and Do Nothing but Kill Seals?
  8. Polygamy, Human Sacrifices, and Steel – Why the Aztecs Were Awesome
  9. 30 Day Vegan Challenge
  10. Pure Kojimism – A Death Stranding Analysis
  11. 96 hour No-Sleep Challenge
  12. An Attempt at Explaining, Blaming, and Being Very Slightly Sympathetic Toward Enron
  13. 30 Day Carnivore Challenge
  14. Against Dog Ownership
  15. Everything You Need to Know About Napoleon Bonaparte
  16. Little Soldiers – Inside the Chinese Education System
  17. Peep Show – The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made
  18. Birth of Two Nations – The Hundred Years War
  19. Examining 1999’s Culture Through Its Best Movies
  20. The New Epidemic – My Experience of Losing a Friend to Heroin
  21. The Philosophy of Tyler Durden
  22. The Opium War – The War On/For Drugs
  23. Hillbilly Elegy – The Culture of White American Poverty
  24. Mongol Apologia – How Genghis Khan Made the Modern World
  25. The Phantom’s Pain – A Metal Gear Solid V Narrative Analysis
  26. Why We Create – A Transistor Analysis