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The Teen Years: 9 Cringe-Inducing Realizations
Yesterday, home for the holidays and assigned an attic chore, I stumbled upon a box—well-taped up, covered in dust, and clearly labeled as “TIM’S STUFF” with two underlines. Oh yeah. That box. When I...
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The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
Note: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artificial Intelligence, I could not believe what I was reading. It hit me pretty quickly that what’s happening...
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The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction
Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on AI. Part 1 is here. ___________ We have what may be an extremely difficult problem with an unknown time to solve it, on which quite possibly the entire...
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The American Presidents—Johnson to McKinley
Note: This is Part 2. Part 1 (Washington to Lincoln) is here. ___________ Last year, I published the post, The American Presidents—Washington to Lincoln. Washington to Lincoln. Two superstars,...
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7.3 Billion People, One Building
After a year and a half of writing Wait But Why posts, I’ve noticed a theme: humans seem to come up a lot. Sometimes we talk about where humans came from or where we might be going or how we’re all...
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The Procrastination Matrix
Note: To best understand this post, you should first read Part 1 of Wait But Why’s previous post on procrastination. ___________ Back in high school, if you had asked me if I were a procrastinator, I...
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Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man
Last month, I got a surprising phone call. Elon Musk, for those unfamiliar, is the world’s raddest man. I’ll use this post to explore how he became a self-made billionaire and the real-life inspiration...
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How Tesla Will Change The World
This is Part 2 of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, start with Part 1. A Wait But Why post can be a few different...
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Why I’m Always Late
I woke up this morning to a text from Andrew. It was a link: http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/optimistic-people-have-one-thing-common-always-late/1097735/...
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How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
This is Part 3 of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, start with Part 1. Pre-Post Note: I started working on this...
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The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce
This is the last part of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, start with Part 1.11 ← also click these Four quick...
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The Tail End
Note: Hi. The last few posts turned out to be quite…thorough. So to bring things back to Earth, this will be the first in a string of short posts that will be coming out over the next few weeks....
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Horizontal History
Most of us have a pretty terrible understanding of history. Our knowledge is spotty, with large gaps all over the place, and the parts of history we do end up knowing a lot about usually depend on the...
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Doing a TED Talk: The Full Story
You’ve probably heard this Seinfeld joke: According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the...
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How I Handle Long Email Delays
This post is part of Mini Week, where I’m posting a new mini post but not actually mini as it turns out every weekday this week except not that either. Note: Click images to see them with larger...
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Here it is! And here’s the full dramatic nightmare story on what it was like to do a TED Talk. The post My TED Talk appeared first on Wait But Why.
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Why Cryonics Makes Sense
You’re on an airplane when you hear a loud sound and things start violently shaking. A minute later, the captain comes on the speaker and says: There’s been an explosion in the engine, and the plane is...
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Mailbag #1
Welcome to a new Wait But Why thing: the mailbag. I get a lot of email from readers asking great questions, and there’s just not time to give most of them a proper answer. Unless, of course, I do a...
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Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad
Welcome to a third-degree avoidance mini-post! More on that here. ___________ I have a new word for you. Cluey. Let me explain. My father once told me a mundane little anecdote from his youth. It...
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Everything You Should Know About Sound
This post is part of Mini Week, where I’m posting a new mini post but not actually mini as it turns out every weekday this week. ___________ I’ve always been a little confused about sound. So for...
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