Newsletter

2026

Aug 2 | SIX at 6: Like It’s The First Time, Everything’s Just Bricklaying, Trying To Have the Time of Your Life, The Effect of Enthusiasm, Doing It When You Don’t Want To, and The Best And Hardest Thing We Do

Jul 28 | SIX at 6: The Initial Agitation, The Essence of Mastery, Starting With Shit, The Natural State, The Psychic Wall, and The Second Effort

Jul 19 | SIX at 6: “The Point,” What The World Doesn’t Need, Wasting Your Time, A Beautiful Teaching, A Come-To-Jesus Moment, and The Constantly Miserable

Jul 12 | SIX at 6: Going Through The Trouble, Possessors Of Mysterious Secrets, A Glorious Decade Of Awkwardness, A Tragic Mistake, A Very Bad Sign, and Traveling To The Moon And Back

Jul 5 | SIX at 6: Getting Things Cooking, Going To The Frontier of Confusion, Making Contact With Reality, Mapping Out The Whole 9 Innings, A Bad Way To Go Through Life, and Acting Before You Think

Jun 26 | SIX at 6: An Unconstrained Life, Withdrawing From The World, Spinning Off The Planet, Cutting Daisies, Airless Space, and What Gives Life Its Bones

Jun 21 | SIX at 6: Things Going Well, Castles In The Air, The Broken Shark, The Way Things Look, A Farmer’s Luck, and Getting Unlucky With The Weather

Jun 14 | SIX at 6: Putting Ourselves Together, Not Knowing Who You Are, Mistaking Self-Exploration As Self-Expression, A Certain Kind of Personality, The Rock Tumbler Metaphor, and Harvesting Your Identity

Jun 7 | SIX at 6: Mental Moves, Funny-Stupid Goals, Getting Unblocked, Forgetting To Panic, Hacking Your Brain, and What Governs Every Human Response

May 31 | SIX at 6: Roman’s Eye, Looking At Fish, Spotting Exceptional Information, Things Waiting To Be Discovered, A Gentleman In A Hotel Lobby, and Putting On Art Eyes

May 24 | SIX at 6: A Fact of Life, A Basic Law, An Impossibility, An Inescapable Checkpoint, The Nature of Love, and A Migratory Animal

May 17 | SIX at 6: The Right Grip, The Inevitable Collision, Things Going Well, Having Nothing To Lose, Who Cares?, and Caring But Not That Much

May 10 | SIX at 6: The Man In The Car, Stuff That Doesn’t Work, Expensive Purchases, Giving Permission, Winning Bald, and A Valuable Form of Freedom

May 3 | SIX at 6: Imperceptible Progress, Tracking Your Efforts, The Rope Bridge, A Gift To Your Future Self, Suspending Judgment, and Cultivating The Wilderness

Apr 26 | SIX at 6: Hating Shakespeare, The Other Half of You, A Problematic Story, A Happy-Inducing Story, A Second Opinion, and The Power Broker In Your Life

Apr 19 | SIX at 6: Process Versus Product, What MSCHF Celebrates, The Most Important Change, The Dance of Doing It, The Costs Of Outsourcing, and The Ashes of Art

Apr 12 | SIX at 6: Doing Time, Making A Mess, Getting Better, Breaking Through The Psychic Wall, The Time You Spend With Things, and The Usual Words Beyond Talent

Apr 5 | SIX at 6: Being Solicitous, Alone At The Masters, Stealing Sean’s Line, Picking Up The Phone, An Entirely Different Life, and Getting To The Outside

Mar 29 | SIX at 6: Knock Knock, Finding The Doors, Making Your Turn, Waiting For Permission, Breaking Through, and How Things Get Done In This World

Mar 22 | SIX at 6: Rilke’s Swan, The Antidote To Exhaustion, An Incognito Musician, A Career-Defining Realization, A Really Fundamental Idea, and Different People In Different Situations

Mar 15 | SIX at 6: The Nature of Magic, An Astonishing Imagination, Djokovic’s “Gift,” Making It Look Easy, A Second And 34 Years, and Visible Manifestations 

Mar 8 | SIX at 6: Intelligence Follows Interest, A Terrible Attention Span, A Disagreeable Task, C.S. Lewis’s Advice, A Way To Think of Success, and The General

Mar 1 | SIX at 6: Completely Different Worlds, Doing Different Things, LeBron’s Success, Comparing Your Life, The Cure For Envy, and The Challenge In Life

Feb 22 | SIX at 6: Generic Machinery, Becoming More Aggressive, The Idea Muscle, The Same Person Throughout, Morning Pages, and Always Practicing

Feb 15 | SIX at 6: Lowering The Stakes, Bad Poetry, Coal Miners, What’s The Big Deal?, The Down-Up Theory, and Premeditated Resentments

Feb 8 | SIX at 6: Physicalizing, The One Call, Getting It Cooking, Groundless Fears, The Spooky Basement Fridge, and What To Do If You’re Unsure What To Do

Feb 1 | SIX at 6: In Praise Of Doing Things Inefficiently, What You Can’t Be Efficient With, And Then?, Wasting Time, The Inefficient Way, and The Issue With Speed

Jan 25 | SIX at 6: Not Obsessing Over Tiny Predictors, Spreadable Butter, Good Songs, The Wrong Things, Tiny Changes, and Advice Nobody Ever Takes

Jan 18 | SIX at 6: Furniture Making As Self-Making, The “Matrix” Theory, Taxi Drivers, Practicing, The Project, and The Stamp of Nature

Jan 11 | SIX at 6: Situational Vs. Existential Problems, The Hole Inside, The Luxury Of Unhappiness, Missing Out, Cutting Daisies, and Lasting Happiness

Jan 4 | SIX at 6: The Law of the Universe, The Kahnweiler Technique, The Picasso Technique, Dopey Ideas, Hanging in The Laboratory, and A Motto

2025

Dec 28 | SIX at 6: Losing Every Other Point, Crappy Rejected Ideas, Catching A Wave, Not Lingering Over A Setback, Handling The Terror, and Bumbling And Failing

Dec 21 | SIX at 6: The Ordeal of Change, The Amount Of Enthusiasm, Doing It When You Don’t Want To, The Parts That Aren’t Fun, The Psychic Wall, and The Only Lasting Fuel

Dec 14 | SIX at 6: A Dividing Line Between Success And Failure, Staring At A Word, The Creating Brain, A Productivity Trick, A Night of Pure Boredom, and Periods of Nondoing

Dec 7 | SIX at 6: Ruining Breakfast But Not Lunch, Showering Off A Bad Day, Pulling Yourself Back Up, The Next Note, The Next Play, and A Prescription For Misery

Nov 30 | SIX at 6: The Common Denominator, Tricking Yourself, Turning Every Page, From The Neck-Down, Madame Butterfly, and The Big Secret

Nov 23 | SIX at 6: Mirrored Reciprocation, Nichols’ Turning Point, Nooyi’s Mentors, Huang’s Past, Honnold’s Brain, and The Fruits of Action

Nov 16 | SIX at 6: The Taste Gap, Closing The Gap, A Proud Failure, Staying On The F*cking Bus, The Frontier Of Uncertainty, and Being Bad

Nov 9 | SIX at 6: Resulting, An Inconsequential Ripoff, 99.9% Of The Time, The Bullseye, The Process Of Unmaking, and The Ashes of Life

Nov 2 | SIX at 6: Fields of Uncertainty, An Anti-Pep Pep Talk, 98.5% of Jokes, The Delusion Of Perfection, “That Won’t Work,” and The Greatest Disease The Mind Faces

Oct 26 | SIX at 6: Surfing Through Life, Fighting The Future, The Lost Generation, Agassi’s Hairpiece, What Everyone Else Is Doing, and Getting Lucky With The Weather

Oct 19 | SIX at 6: Start Close In, The Cab Ritual, Sounding Like Bruce, A Bird, A Brick, and Driving At Night

Oct 12 | SIX at 6: How He Does It, The First Rule of Compounding, Planting Seeds, Getting Back To Work, Tied Down, and The Marshmallows

Oct 5 | SIX at 6: Adopting Prejudices, An Inherited Enclosure, A Waste of Time, A Convenient Assumption, A Unique Style, and Folklore

Sep 28 | SIX at 6: Epiphenomena, Working With Enthusiasm, The Real Project, Man’s Search For Success, Where Confidence Comes From, and How Emotions Are Made

Sep 21 | SIX at 6: Relative Evaluations, Relative Deprivation, A Dreaded Question, A Ridiculous Comparison, What Everyone Starts With, and The Comparison Effect

Sep 14 | SIX at 6: Necessary Selfishness, An Invented Myth, A Negligent Emailer, A Common Mistake, A Missed Birthday Party, and A Gigantic Aspect of Survival

Sep 7 | SIX at 6: On Account of Relationships, King’s Muse, Sondheim’s Laugh, Lewis’s Eagerness, Guinzburg’s Belief, and Adam’s Lonely Paradise

Aug 31 | SIX at 6: Swing Your Swing, The Incorrect Way You Like, Some Essential “Me-Ness,” Not Ticking Every Box, “Alaska,” and A Special Quality Everyone Possesses

Aug 24 | SIX at 6: The Follow-Up, Staying With It, A Striking Lack of Talent, A Certain Kind of Personality, A Proud Failure, and The Second Effort

Aug 17 | SIX at 6: The Deceptive Nature of Things, An Unusual Asset, What You Don’t See, What’s Impossible To Know, The Things That Change Your Life, and Nonchoosing

Aug 10 | SIX at 6: Being Great Wherever You Are, Acing It Just For Fun, Acting Like A Singer, The Final No, The Frog Float, and What Chris Rock Always Tells People

Aug 3 | SIX at 6: The Reality of What Appears Magical, Solving The Problem Too Fast, How Dylan’s Songs Got Here, Glacial Processes, Whispering, and The Big Secret

Jul 27 | SIX at 6: The Third Chair, A Year of 365 Contributions, The Idea Of Unrealized Dreams, Cancelling Everything, The Curie’s Pact, and The Fruit Of Preliminary Work

Jul 20 | SIX at 6: Some Of God’s Best Work, Making Your Own Turn, The Roy Kent Part, What’s Missing, An Abnormal Brain, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jul 13 | SIX at 6: A Qualitative Phenomenon, Madame Butterfly, Focusing On The Wrong Things, Training Differently, Seeing Beyond The Numbers, and The Secret Of Everyone Who Has Ever Excelled

Jul 6 | SIX at 6: Unpacking, The Coffee Beans Procedure, Making Vs. Collecting, A Writing Profession, A Big Imagination, and The Real Life Of Appearances

Jun 29 | SIX at 6: Forms of Capital, Making Tea, A Missed Guess, A Cinderella Story, What Fortune Favors, and A Currency Like Gold

Jun 22 | SIX at 6: The Intellectual Dodge, BLOGDOC, From The Neck-Down, “In There,” A Game Of Tonnage, and Deceiving Yourself

Jun 15 | SIX at 6: An Unquenchable Unfolding, Making Contact With Reality, Jumping Over Your Shadow, Sailing To The Horizon, On The Frontier, and The Inevitable Fruit

Jun 8 | SIX at 6: All We Know About Anybody, The Follow-Up, The Best Defense, The Elephant, A Good Past, and A Grand Unified Theory

Jun 1 | SIX at 6: A Reign of Error, Good And Bad Air, Second Opinions, Running Out Of Luck, Phoebe Buffay, and The Effect Of Your Narrative

May 25 | SIX at 6: Step-Down Moves, Local Maximums, An Epic Losing Streak, A Trifling Genre, A Way To Prevail, and Turning Back

May 18 | SIX at 6: Supportive Resistance, Immovable Deadlines, The Catastrophe of Success, The Mother of The Ollie, Picking A Date, and Spinning Off The Planet

May 11 | SIX at 6: Above And Beyond The Human Condition, Eating Bad Fish, Fish In Water, The Nature of Every Profession, A Week Off, and Asking The Impossible

May 4 | SIX at 6: The Burden of Passively-Chosen Thoughts, Agents of Construction, Instinctual Behaviors, Internalized Voices, Forgetting To Panic, and A Note on “Camp”

Apr 27 | SIX at 6: Gains From Losses (And Vice Versa), The Hurt Locker, Wait For It, The Pleasure-Pain Balance, The Secret Wisdom of Trees, and Compensation

Apr 20 | SIX at 6: The Tyranny Of The First Try, The Passion Fallacy, The Period Of Not Being Good, Robert Greene’s Twists And Turns, The Grapes of Wrath, and A Bagatelle

Apr 13 | SIX at 6: Circumstances, Making It Undeniable, A Tragic Immobility, What’s Missing, A Detest Fest, and Traffic

Apr 6 | SIX at 6: The Art of Not Taking An Interest, The Mother Of All Questions, The Daily Confusion, The Feeling, The Freak, and Being Perceived As Foolish 

Mar 30 | SIX at 6: A Certain Personality, A Tragic Mistake, Taxi Drivers, Harvesting An Identity, The Rock Tumbler Metaphor, and The Stamp of Nature

Mar 23 | SIX at 6: So What, The Greatest To Never Win, The Science of Choking, Mental Jiu-Jitsu, Bad Poetry, and Who Cares?

Mar 16 | SIX at 6: Law #23, A Classic Error, A 50 Percent Athlete, A 5-Minute Interruption, Three Bonfires, and The Art of War

Mar 9 | SIX at 6: The Next Note, A Bad Take, A Low Moment, After Something Bad Happens, Banana Pancakes, and Raw Material 

Mar 2 | SIX at 6: What You’re Made For, John Lennon’s Tea, The Mundanity of Excellence, A Seminal Event, The Common Denominator, and Bob Knight’s Advice

Feb 23 | SIX at 6: The Central Question, The Valley of Death, A Come To Jesus Moment, Wasting Your Time, People Looking Past You, and Madame Curie

Feb 16 | SIX at 6: No Grand Plan, Insect Spray, A Hollywood Education, An Exercise In Suspense, The Microsoft Sound, and The Fittest

Feb 9 | SIX at 6: The Three Orientations, The Hardest Phase, The Practice Room, A Low Dread, A Little Drop, And A Game Of Tonnage

Feb 2 | SIX at 6: Staying Power, The Great Wave, The Carpenter, A Long-Term View, The Bus, and The Secret

Jan 26 | SIX at 6: A Radical Model of Transformation, A Desperate Movement, Inside Out, Wayne Gretzky, Virgil Carter, And Anatomy

Jan 19 | SIX at 6: Peer Norms, Puppetry, Hurt Village, Steve-O’s Rant, The Artists’ Colony, And Lewin’s Equation

Jan 12 | SIX at 6: The Wrong Measures, A Fundamental Trait, Getting The Bone, Following Up Success, Playing Like The Kid, And Not Burning Out

Jan 5 | SIX at 6: The Inverted-U, Killing Pleasure, The Goldilocks Zone, Too Much Cake, Immigrants To Wealth, and Enough

2024

Dec 29 | SIX at 6: The Joe DiMaggio Principle, A False Assessment, On Self-Respect, A Cinderella Story, The Most Drafts, and The Richard Pryor Illusion

Dec 22 | SIX at 6: Stretch, Find Out, Push The Limits, Bomb, Expand, and Move Toward Higher Levels

Dec 15 | SIX at 6: The Last War, The Gates, The Same Thing, Primal Fear, Winning Ugly, and The Lost Generation

Dec 8 | SIX at 6: Sentiment Override, Identity Paralysis, Flash Gordon, Talking Heads, Christopher Nolan’s Philosophy, and Setbacks

Dec 1 | SIX at 6: The Briefcase Syndrome, All There Is, Starting The Car, The Sound of Silence, What You Can Control, and What To Say To Frustrations

Nov 24 | SIX at 6: TIMSS, No Sign of Talent, The Driver’s Seat, The Sharkiest Waters, Simple Math, and Blaming Everybody Else

Nov 17 | SIX at 6: The Catastrophe of Success, The Great Curse, Getting Sorkinized, The Un-fun Parts, How To Not Rot, and The Human Condition

Nov 10 | SIX at 6: The Psychological Bog, Sailing To The Horizon, A Dynamic of Conditionality, A Groundless Fear, A Trip To Pluto, and Getting A Grip

Nov 3 | SIX at 6: The Vividness Bias, Lacking The Look, Perceived Labor, Wasted Effort, Visible Success, and The Invisible Work

Oct 27 | SIX at 6: Stopping Evolution, A Double Satisfaction, Alaska, A World of 3 1/4 seconds, A Pattern of Consistency, and Variance

Oct 20 | SIX at 6: The Luxury of Unhappiness, The Neck-Down, The Neck-Up, The Little Scared Kid, Dream Achievement, and Horace

Oct 13 | SIX at 6: Top-Level Grit, Suffering Strategically Managed, The “Things I Like To Do” Hierarchy, The People Ahead of You, Jewel, and When To Push Back

Oct 6 | SIX at 6: How To Be Accident-Prone, The “Genius”, The Cootie Department, The Swoosh, Nvidia, and The Byproducts of Something Special

Sep 29 | SIX at 6: Forms of Freedom, Making Less, Giving Permission, Seeing What Happens, Being Consistent, and Deep Affection

Sep 22 | SIX at 6: Relative Value, Megalopolis, Robin Williams, Advice Nobody Ever Takes, 25, and The Fisherman And The Businessman

Sep 15 | SIX at 6: The Twelve Labors, The Pains of Relentless Repetition, Infinite Options, A Game of Tonnage, The Next Thing, and The Blessing Of Labor

Sep 8 | SIX at 6: The Barrier of Convention, Why Not?, The Subtle Arts of Murder and Persuasion, Poisoned By Familiarity, Def Jam, and Making Your Conventions

Sep 1 | SIX at 6: Duration Neglect, Astronaut’s On Earth, Getting To Boring, The 0.000017%, The Process of Unmaking, and The Ashes of Experience

Aug 25 | SIX at 6: Attitude, The Stockdale Paradox, Good Luck? Bad Luck?, What You Don’t See, Christopher Nolan, and The End of the Story

Aug 18 | SIX at 6: Lay Theories, Friends, Frog Floats, What You’re Doing, Where The Mind Goes, and Crafting Your Narrative

Aug 11 | SIX at 6: Hyper-Intention, Oil!, Didn’t Mean It, A New Planet, Accidents, A Not-That-Funny Comedian

Aug 4 | SIX at 6: The Focusing Illusion, Bricklaying, Man In The Car, Expensive Purchase, William James, and The Legend That Encrusts Things

Jul 28 | SIX at 6: The Law of Reverse Effort, Mozart, The Godfather, The 1000, Chris Rock, and The Art of War

Jul 21 | SIX at 6: Assembling Firewood, Periods of Frustration, A Failure and A Loser, Shadow Careers, René Redzepi, and What All Persons Must Think

Jul 14 | SIX at 6: Aren’t You Afraid?, Vampire Weekend, Who Cares?, Like A Rolling Stone, House Money, and Hemingway

Jul 7 | SIX at 6: Get Off The Stage, The Audience, A Good Window, A Party Trick, A Show Business Story, and The Last Supper

Jun 30 | SIX at 6: Every Day, A Natural State, Harry Belafonte, Everybody Knows This, The Nature of Love, And The First Time

Jun 23 | SIX at 6: The Frozen Seas Inside, The Iceberg, A Divining Rod, Finding Your Discipline, A Complex Dance, and The Trip Inside

Jun 16 | SIX at 6: How?, A Gigantic Key To Survival, Don’t Tell Anyone, Keep Your Word, Rodney Mullen, and The Fire

Jun 9 | SIX at 6: The Opposite Is True, Man’s Search For Success, 99 Problems, Rest, What Not To Do, and The Little-Known Equations

Jun 2 | SIX at 6: Notes on “Taste,” What’s Hidden In Plain Sight, Pure Boredom, A Thick Accent, The Tide, and This Is Water

May 26 | SIX at 6: How To Conform, Get Trapped, Not Make It, Bother A French Guy, Be True To Your Interests, and Make a Life

May 19 | SIX at 6: Diverting a Meteor, One Caveat, The Last Place on Earth, Losing 140 Pounds, Career Trajectories, and Sailing To The Horizon

May 12 | SIX at 6: The Clothesline, Tom Brady, A Minefield, Attitude, The Lesson of ARPA, and True Character

May 5 | SIX at 6: The Boiler Room, 20 Years of Not Writing, Nightmares of Failure, Expectations of Success, Chair Upholstery, and The Delusion of Perfection

Apr 28 | SIX at 6: Pacific Salmon, A Heartbreaking Thought, The .01%, The Pinnacle, The Nobel Prize, and The Work Itself

Apr 21 | SIX at 6: Humanity Over Talent, A Good Past, Madison Ave, Spike Lee, Secret Knowledge, and An Old Greek Saying

Apr 14 | SIX at 6: The Correct Way, Avatar, Animal, A Fundamental Idea, People Who Are INTO It, and The Book

Apr 7 | SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations

Mar 31 | SIX at 6: The Same Speed, The Pain-Pleasure Balance, The Tide, Chris Sacca, The Secret Wisdom of Nature, and The Half Life Theory

Mar 24 | SIX at 6: George Carlin, Whispering, A Gentleman In Moscow, The Golconda, The Reality of So-Called Inspirations, and The Tedious Work

Mar 17 | SIX at 6: The Resistance, Eating Bad Fish, El Cap, A Designer With No Promise, A Cure For Resistance, and A Reverse Indicator

Mar 10 | SIX at 6: Fill Up To Pour Out, Bob Dylan, Saving Nike, Carlin’s Creativity, Breaking A Barrier, and Strummer’s Law

Mar 3 | SIX at 6: Be What You Is, Maggie Rogers, The Source of Power, Your Distinctiveness, Your Style, and The “Forest Adventurous”

Feb 25 | SIX at 6: Pygmalion, David Beckham, Dor, American Recordings, Another Person’s Belief, and Santa Filomena

Feb 18 | SIX at 6: The Measure of Focus, A Double Satisfaction, A Gigantic Aspect of Survival, Greenlights, Wait For It, and The 23rd Law of Power

Feb 12 | SIX at 6: The Shadow, Andre Agassi’s Hairpiece, Finding Dwight, Quitting Chess, Getting Rid of Anxiety, and The Essence of Our Art

Feb 4 | SIX at 6: The Currency of Success, The Pixar Principle, James Cameron, A Sixth Sense, Thomas Edison, and Robert Greene

Jan 28 | SIX at 6: The Backwards Law, Game of Thrones, Adele, The 1988 Olympics, Novak Djokovic, and The Subtle Art

Jan 21 | SIX at 6: Confront, Anticipation, Hemingway’s Chart, Chair Upholstery, B.J. Novak, and Loitering

Jan 14 | SIX at 6: Prospection, A New Rule, The Pleasure-Pain Balance, Missing It, Wishing Away Time, and The Prospectiscope

Jan 7 | SIX at 6: The Power Broker in Your Life, Steven Spielberg, Dan Jansen, Cognitive Reframing, An Aggregate of Tendencies, and Crafting Your Narrative

2023

Dec 31 | SIX at 6: REST, The Sound of Silence, A Productivity Trick, The Tinef, The Initial Agitation, and Leonardo da Vinci

Dec 24 | SIX at 6: The Inklings, The Dream, Nowhereville, Free Fallin’, Dor, and An Extinguished Piece of Coal

Dec 17 | SIX at 6: Prestige, The Lord of the Rings, Austin Kleon, Bradley Cooper, Disneyland, and Motorcycle Maintenance

Dec 10 | SIX at 6: The Spokes of Success, That Thing You Do, Adele, Jay Wright, The WSJ Review, and The Whole Package

Dec 3 | SIX ay 6: Pay Attention To What You Pay Attention To, Aaron Sorkin, Jerry Seinfeld, Will Ferrell, Ton-goo-ey, and A Diving Rod

Nov 26 | SIX at 6: Swiss Cheese, In The Heights, Wylie Dufresne, STORY, Owning Your Style, and The Fallow Periods

Nov 19 | SIX at 6: Modified Emulation, Missing The Moon, Good Will Hunting, Studying Bobby Clarke, The Air Max, and The Work is the Win

Nov 12 | SIX at 6: Referred Pain, Space Man From Pluto, Shaun White, Ender’s Game, Beaver Hats, and Pinched Nerves

Nov 5 | SIX at 6: Talent Vs. Skill, Daily Terror, Greta Gerwig, Harrison Ford, Bob Dylan, and Negative Capability

Oct 29 | SIX at 6: Mental Fitness, A Great Writer, When Things Go Bad, The American Hotel, Rearranging Furniture, and Shaking Your Head

Oct 22 | SIX at 6: Getting Unstuck, Tom Brady, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mike Myers, Steve Martin, and Little Women

Oct 15 | SIX at 6: Environmental Priming, Quentin Tarantino, James Cameron, The Pixar Table, Twyla Tharp, and Patterns of Events

Oct 8 | SIX at 6: Anatomical Strengths & Weaknesses, David McCullough, Abraham Lincoln, Computer Animation, The West Coast Offense, and The Art Spirit

Oct 1 | SIX at 6: The Core of Cognition, Judgment, Creativity, Understanding A New Technology, Problem Solving, and The Brain

Sep 24 | SIX at 6: The Three Categories, The Philly Captain, A Fundamental Idea, Matt Damon, Hasan Minhaj, and The Win

Sep 17 | SIX at 6: Mundane Excellence, Comfortable Torture, A Dividing Line, The Reality of Creativity, Peanuts, and Paul Graham

Sep 10 | SIX at 6: Everyday Destiny, Forgetting To Panic, Mental Jiu-Jitsu, Puppetry, Second Opinions, and Crafting Your Narrative

Sep 3 | SIX at 6: Lead Measures, Tom Brady, Jerry Seinfeld, The Cat in the Hat, John Steinbeck, and A Currency Like Gold

Aug 27 | SIX at 6: The Fittest, Forrest Gump, Lionel Messi, Indiana Jones, Making The Gates, and Fitting To The Future

Aug 20 | SIX at 6: The Idea Gap, Hamilton, Toy Story, William James, Discovering The Possibilities, and The Worst Thing You Can Ever Say

Aug 13 | SIX at 6: Present Sensations, Dwyane Wade, Swimming Blind, Alex Honnold, Kitchen Confidential, and Generating Evidence

Aug 6 | SIX at 6: Homeostasis, The Nature of Love, Novak Djokovic, Alexi Pappas, Andy Weir, and The Two Impostors

Jul 30 | SIX at 6: Self-Assessment Biases, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Hanks, An Insulting Lack of Confidence, Someone Else’s Belief, and A Good Word

Jul 23 | SIX at 6: Tree Growth, The Art of Patience, John Mayer, Sony, Sylvester Stallone, and D.N.F.L

Jul 16 | SIX at 6: A Minefield, Negative Capability, The Win, The Shoe Dog, The Dunce, and Saving Private Ryan

Jul 9 | SIX at 6: A Dramatic Need, Taking Candy, Acting, Ollying, Directing, and Getting Your Musts

Jul 2 | SIX at 6: Hip-Hop Clubs, The Movie Brats, Would You Laugh?, Bob Dylan, Avatar, and Paula Scher

Jun 25 | SIX at 6: Disciple of Experience and Wisdom, Lava Cake, James Cameron, The Hero, The Library, and The Real Thing

Jun 18 | SIX at 6: Ugly Babies, Jost and Che, How Bad Things Can Be, The Bus, De-Fucking The Script, and Randall Stutman

Jun 11 | SIX at 6: Runnin’ Down A Dream, Rocky, Oozing Toxicity, What’s Missing, Waiting For Permission, and Mike Myers

Jun 4 | SIX at 6: Where People Are, The Wrong Place, Where It Is, The Tape Recorder, The PLL, and Jay-Z

May 28 | SIX at 6: Universe Immersion, The Normal Behavior, Wonderful Puppetry, The Carpenter, The Great One, and A Grand Unified Theory

May 21 | SIX at 6: Match Quality, Anatomical Strengths, The Lesson of Buffett, Rick Rubin, Josh Waitzkin, and Jim Henson

May 14 | SIX at 6: Lagging Indicators, An Abnormal Brain, A Cinderella Story, A Second and 34 Years, Picasso, and Robert Greene

May 7 | SIX at 6: Isomorphism, Film Industry and Synergy, The Unified Theory of Deliciousness, 12 Notes, Playing Like Charlie, and An Advance in Knowledge

Apr 30 | SIX at 6: Autotelic, Hasan Minhaj, Rodney Mullen, Quentin Tarantino, Making It, and The Work is the Win

Apr 23 | SIX at 6: The Most Powerful Person, Aaron Sorkin, The Pixar Law, The Vogler Memo, The Two or Three Stories, and True Character

Apr 16 | SIX at 6: The Ultimate Skill, Visionaries, Why It Worked, The Rubik’s Cube, Pleasing Yourself, and Cutting The Bad Bits

Apr 9 | SIX at 6: Slalom Skiing, Fighting The Future, Dr. Seuss, Jimi Hendrix, Christopher Nolan, and Dressing For The Weather

Apr 2 | SIX at 6: Syncretism, Nirvana & Gap Band, Willy Wonka & Video Games, Saving Nike, Collecting More Dots, and Grazing in the Field of Culture

Mar 26 | SIX at 6: Sewage, The Mumble Track, Get Back, Ouija Boarding, The Down-Up Theory, and Throwing The First Pitch

Mar 19 | SIX at 6: Using Time As A Filter, The Beatles, Quick No Long Yes, The Chinese Farmer, Paula Scher, and Protection Against Wrongs

Mar 12 | SIX at 6: Harmony Hall, The Feedback Loop, The Education of John Adams, Fixing The Broncos, Chess Prodigies, and Getting Terrain F*cked

Mar 5 | SIX at 6: Art Eyes, The Benefit of Mr. Kite, The West Wing, Chop Suey!, Chopsticks, and Walking Past Ideas

Feb 26 | SIX at 6: Engaged Detachment, Kobe’s Airballs, Who Cares?, Low Stakes, Mike Nichols, and Nervous Breakdowns

Feb 19 | SIX at 6: Courtship Display, Dr. Seuss’ Empire, Casey Neistat’s Origin Story, Eli Witus, DRAM, and Becoming A Magnet For Opportunities

Feb 12 | SIX at 6: Golden Joinery, Bruce The Shark, Tap Dancing, Harry Truman, Mr. I, and The Seinfeld Question

Feb 5 | SIX at 6: The Secret Life of the Brain, R.E.S.T, The Unwatched Pot, The Can’t-Do-Anything Rule, Neil Gaiman, and A Dividing Line

Jan 29 | SIX at 6: Introjection, The Vulcan Mind Meld, The Beatles, The Great One, Joel Embiid, and Neil Gaiman

Jan 22 | SIX at 6: The Positive Manifold, The Silo Mindset, Pouring Concrete, The Sistine Chapel, The Neuroscience of Practice, and Joel Embiid’s G-Factor

Jan 15 | SIX at 6: Conceptual Ancestors, Seinfeld’s Shrine, A Thousand Faces, The Air Sole, A Wonderful Technique, and Combining Your Influences

Jan 8 | SIX at 6: Decomposition, Mammoth Tasks, Losing 140 Pounds, Steinbeck’s Stint, Bill Walsh, and Michael Jordan

Jan 1 | Six at 6: The Termites, The Artists’ Colony, Charlie Brown, Thomas Edison, The Unique Thing, and The Secret

2022

Dec 25 | SIX at 6: Blindness, Sleeping In Foxholes, Jackie Robinson, The Chronic, Walk This Way, and Big Wave Surfing

Dec 18 | SIX at 6: Attrition Warfare, Newton’s Peculiar Gift, Bus Stations, Steve Martin, The Dip, and Outliers

Dec 11 | SIX at 6: Darkness, Brain Breaks, Incubation, Unplugging, The Science of Downtime, and Making The Wagon Move

Dec 4 | SIX at 6: Gee-Whiz, The Brain, Raisins and Hydrogen Bombs, Leonardo da Vinci, Pencils, and The Capacity For Wonder

Nov 27 | SIX at 6: Pixar Movies Suck, Kobe Bryant, The Grapes of Wrath, Anti-Comedy, Starting With Shit, and Daring To Suck

Nov 20 | SIX at 6: Restriction, Aaron Burr, Narrowing Down, The Puppy Brain, Washing Machines, and The Most Miserable Humans

Nov 13 | SIX at 6: The Sweet Spot, Being The Freak, Henry Ford, Hamilton, The Red Thread, and Irrational Ideas

Nov 6 | SIX at 6: Medieval Swords, Matthew McConaughey, Mr. Beast, The Chicago Bulls, Neglecting Things, and Sending Reinforcements

Oct 30 | SIX at 6: Chemical Precipitation, David Foster Wallace, Walt Disney, Rick Rubin, Hasan Minhaj, and Ed Sheeran

Oct 23 | SIX at 6: Wildfires, Ice Ages, Drops in the Bucket, Compound Growth, The Nobel-Prize Effect, and The Art of War

Oct 16 | SIX at 6: Icebergs, In The Heights, Astronauts Not In Space, Miracle and Wonder, Being on the Bottom, and Fred Rogers

Oct 9 | SIX at 6: The Titchener Circles, Hurt Village, Stephen Sondheim’s Laugh, Tom Guinzburg’s Note, Lorne Michaels’ Audience, and Longfellow’s Poem

Oct 2 | SIX at 6: The Hierarchy of Attention, Reviewing The Tape, Authenticating Paintings, Mastery, The Paradox of Defects, and Seeing Through Illusions

Sep 25 | SIX at 6: 1 + 1 = 3, Pulp Fiction, Revolutionizing An Industry, Functional Decomposition, Functional Recomposition, and The History You Don’t Know

Sep 18 | SIX at 6: The Mere-Exposure Effect, B.J. Novak, Rules For Prolific Writing, Winning A Grammy, William James, and Learning Who We Are

Sep 11 | SIX at 6: The Gestaltists, Raw Material, Stand-Up Comedy, 50 Cent, 12 Notes, and Looking At The World

Sep 4 | SIX at 6: The Least Action, Leonardo da Vinci, Rigor and Relevance, Generating Ideas, Synthetic Startups, and Four-Minute Miles

Aug 28 | SIX at 6: If I Killed Someone, Disney’s Philosophy, Owning Your Style, Distinctiveness, Strange Tastes, and Your Signature

Aug 21 | SIX at 6: Products of Environment, Losing 250 Pounds, Rafael Nadal, Trying To Play Like Jerry, Habituating Postponing, and The Pygmalion Effect

Aug 14 | SIX at 6: Bad Advice Sounds Good, Expecting Nothing, Avoiding Prestige, Doing Tedious Work, Reading Slowly, and Piling Up Rejections

Aug 7 | SIX at 6: Career Vectors, Hasan Minhaj, Trajectory, The Top Idea In Your Mind, The Michelangelo Phenomenon, and Money’s Greatest Intrinsic Value

Jul 31 | SIX at 6: The Prohibition Theory, Gateway Habits, Morning Pages, Rearranging Furniture, Butter, and John Muir

Jul 24 | SIX at 6: Taking the Bullshit, A Kidnapping, Rule Breakers, Swans, Coaching Trees, and An Infinitely Repeatable Process

Jul 17 | SIX at 6: The Manifesto, Atomic Units, Reduce To Produce, Bushnell’s Law, Writing Simply, and The Guy Before Lincoln

Jul 10 | SIX at 6: Reciprocal Inhibition, Tip of the Tongue, Nostrils, Treating The Body Rigorously, Mitigating Strengths, and 99 Problems

Jul 3 | SIX at 6: Creative Incentives, Quantity vs. Quality, Aiming at Success, Moby Dick, Rodney Mullen, and Controlling The Effort

Jun 26 | SIX at 6: The Cunctator, A Mother’s Instinct, Fiddling With Fewer Nobs, A Break From Worrying, The Cubs, and Sloppy Meditation

Jun 19 | SIX at 6: Negative Capability, Lincoln’s Policy, Antifragility, Will Ferrell, Bets, and Maintaining Attitude

Jun 12 | SIX at 6: Revisiting, Einstein’s Talentlessness, Dumb Obsession, Wants Vs. Musts, Mindy Kaling, and Taking Pains

Jun 5 | SIX at 6: Getting Bored, No-Go Circuits, The Lion Vs. The Cow, The Most Dangerous Form of Procrastination, Moving Slower, and Stopping Points

May 29 | SIX at 6: Saying Sorry, Facts Becoming Truths, The Red Pill, Jack Harlow’s Branch, The Messy Middle, and John Steinbeck

May 22 | SIX at 6: The Rules, Consistency, The Personal Is Universal, Looking at the Parts, Myths, and the Four-Minute Mile

May 15 | SIX at 6: Butterflies, How To Be Exotic, Filling The Universe, Making An Inventory, Creative Maladjustment, and Seeing Everything as Fuel

May 8 | SIX at 6: What To Aim For, The Edge of the Frame, Sunk Costs, The Library In Your Head, Observing The Obvious, and David Mamet

May 1 | SIX at 6: The Highest Quality, The Great Excuse, The Center of Your Attention, Not Caring, Caring, and Playing Like Charlie Parker

Apr 24 | SIX at 6: The Reading Brain, DNA, The ‘90 Bulls, Chefs and Cooks, Striving For Perfection, and Reid Hoffman

Apr 17 | SIX at 6: Most Stories Wins, Efficient Labor, Not Following Passion, Macro-Contentedness, Floor Tiles, and Cracking Culture Codes

Apr 10 | SIX at 6: Steve Martin, Woodpeckers, The Helsinki Bus Station, The Third Peak, Andrew Carnegie, and The Value In Taking Away

Apr 3 | SIX at 6: Wayne Gretzky, Nirvana, Casey Neistat, A Paleolithic Theory of Procrastination, Going Deep, and Filling Work With Time

Mar 27 | SIX at 6: 3 Rules From Frank, Spending Energy, Napoleon’s Cupboard, Attention Residue, Ender’s Game, and Being Thought Stupid

Mar 20 | SIX at 6: Being Bad, Fly-Fishing, Deep Breathing Club, The Small Choices, Nonreligious Prayer, and Deadlines

Mar 13 | SIX at 6: Parallel Processing, Adapting to the Moon, Never Getting to Space, What Art Is, Tolerating Boredom, and Lorne Michaels

Mar 6 | SIX at 6: Word Economy, The Appetite For Action, Being Stuck, Churchill On Whistling, A Theory Borne Out By Sushi, and Re-Cognizing

Feb 27 | SIX at 6: The Happiest Person Anybody Knows, Bruce Springsteen, Second Opinions, Jerry Seinfeld, Swamps, and My Friend Buddha

Feb 20 | SIX at 6: How Emotions Are Made, Preventing Panic, Trusting The Preparation, The Miraculousness of the Pencil, Getting Past The Stranger, and A Theory of Intelligence

Feb 13 | SIX at 6: Getting to Boring, Asking the Right Questions, Creating A Sense of Awe, Note-taking, Tricking Your Brain, and Shaun White

Feb 6 | SIX at 6: Skin Thickness, Rick Rubin, Act Before You Think, Mouth Taping, Getting Lucky With The Weather, and Why It’s Better To Travel Than To Arrive

Jan 30 | SIX at 6: A Grand Unified Theory, Starting with Shit, Bruce Springsteen, The Common Denominator of Success, Seth Godin, and Passion

Jan 23 | SIX at 6: A Ghost Town Fire, The Theory of Deliciousness, Revering Great Art, This American Life, Controlling Your Thoughts, and Steph Curry

Jan 16 | SIX at 6: Wading Through Sewage, Week(s) Off, Sticking With The Banjo, Paul Simon, Vitamin C, and The Money Shot

Jan 9 | SIX at 6: What You Pay Attention To, Willful Will, Creativity, Ice Ages, Preparation, and Antonio Brown

Jan 2 | SIX at 6: Jerry Seinfeld, Leaving Work Behind, Dumb and Dumber, Trash, The Idea-Generating Magic of Doing Nothing, and Not Trying To Succeed

2021

Dec 26 | SIX at 6: (In)Ability, a Leadership Goal, Nondoing, Matt Damon, George Carlin, and a Big Key to a Lack of Anxiety

Dec 19 | SIX at 6: Unique Limitations, Oil Spills, Amnesia, Blaming the Weather, Solitude, and A Car Ride with Robert Greene

Dec 12 | SIX at 6: Pacing, Spike Lee, Mirrored Reciprocation, Coolness Under Pressure, Paul McCartney, and Falling In Love With Boredom

Dec 5 | SIX at 6: Novak Djokovic, Wind, Incubation, René Redzepi, Psychology in a Statement, and Hope

Nov 28 | SIX at 6: Viktor Frankl, Beaver Hats, Constraints, Kobe, Motorcycle Maintenance, and Mud

Nov 21 | SIX at 6: Rodney Mullen, King Solomon, Mathematicians, Enthusiasm vs Quality, Daydreaming, and Hemingway

Nov 14 | SIX at 6: Trees, Nails, Clint Eastwood, Missing It, Bumbling and Failing, and Filling Up

Nov 7 | SIX at 6: Pinnacles, John Mayer, Toenails, Short Knives vs. Jack Knives, The Good-Mood Hack, and Being Pronoid

Oct 31 | SIX at 6: Tarantino, NASA, Bus Ticket Collectors, Butter, John Mayer In Process, and Doing The Daily Stint