A book review and follow up of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods I go down a rabbit hole fact-checking his 30-year-old predictions about the environment, talk about OG (Old Granny) Grandma Gatewood and connect it all back to hedonic adaptation, digital detox, and even Mormon Girls Camp. Video episode here:

My quest to understand attention fracking led me to Stephen Platt's masterful book about the Opium Wars in China. What can we learn from 19th century drug smugglers, modern day tech billionaires, and the human cost of attention harvesting?

Don't knock it till you try it - breathwork is the cheap, legal way to get high, right now. My first time trying breathwork was not what I expected, it was scarier and more beautiful than I expected. JP is a fantastic teacher bringing people into breathwork who may have never found it on their own.

Meet the wisdom tooth guy who forgot his entire family but somehow remembered Batman. It's pretty hard to find something that sticks out in your mind under the constant content bombardment, but this guy embodies the euphoria I seek. Is this kind of bliss possible without a pharmacological boost? Byron Katie says it is. I finished A Mind at Home With Itself, which is basically 300+ pages of Batman guy (he's a metal version of Byron Katie). I also talk about Julia Cameron's ide