All of the Dumb
Here’s where you’ll find all of the Dumbify newsletter posts.
The Strange World of Cheese Influencers
(And the Secret to Finding Joy)
How to Think Upside Down Good
The dumb art of being backwards.
Why Fight For Scraps When You Can Throw Your Own Party?
Forget battling for attention in crowded markets. The Nobody’s-Here-Party Method shows you how to walk out, find an empty room, and make it the hottest spot in town.
The Things That Make You Weird Make You Memorable
You can spend your whole life trying to blend in and still get forgotten, or you can lean into the part of you that makes people tilt their heads and go, “Huh.”
The Trouble With Thinking You're Smarter Than You Are
How to cure chronic know-it-all syndrome (starting with yourself)
Why We Make Stuff Harder Than It Needs to Be
How the best solutions are hiding behind our need to look smart.
You Will Never Meet an Idiot Who Isn't Having a Good Time
How my friend Adi accidentally solved the happiness equation.
Why Your Brain Craves What You're Afraid to Give It
When the problem is too much versus too little
Allergic to Impossible
The Unreasonable Mindset Behind Freezer Laptops, X-Rays, and Lab-Grown Organs
Embrace Your Inner Amateur
Why your brain gets bored by perfection and energized by anomalies
Why the Best Ideas Sound Like the Worst Ideas
Discover why breakthrough innovations from karaoke to CPR sounded so terrible that experts tried to ban them—and how to spot the hidden brilliance in ideas that make everyone cringe.
Why the Smartest People Break the Rules (on Purpose)
How originality is just disobedience with good timing.
Why I Schedule Time to Space Out (and Why You Should Too)
Learn how zoning out can bulk up your brain — no pushups, just pixels and pub crawls.
What if everything you think is wrong... is right?
How to use "The Opposite Method" (AKA, "The George Costanza")
Stuck? Try This Absurd Trick That Actually Works
The not-so-stupid science of solving problems by getting lost.
The Ideas That Duck & Cover
Why brilliant ideas ghost us — and how to snag them before they disappear.
Make a Fortune Being Useless
Three entrepreneurs who got rich selling air, aliens, and absolutely nothing — and what they know about meaning that economists don’t.
The Day I Tried to Fake My Jog and Discovered the Meaning of Life
The art of following someone's logic so far down the rabbit hole that you emerge on the other side of sanity with a clearer view of the problem.
The Age of Appstinence
When deleting your apps turns into your biggest life-upgrade flex.
Why Boredom Is Brain Fuel
The genius of being bored out of your mind.
