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Host: Brett McKayProducer: Kate McKay September 15, 2026When people are faced with problems and complexity, our instinct is to add instead of subtract. As a result, we have a tendency to make our work and our lives more and more…
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After weeks of friendly chats with the woman you keep running into at the coffee shop, you worked up the nerve to ask her out. She smiled, winced a little, and said, “That’s really sweet, but I don’t think so.”Your face went hot. Your…
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YouTube Update Video. While I used to regularly make videos for YouTube, I stopped ten years ago because I don’t like making videos. But I thought I’d check in on that platform to announce the new website redesign and catch subscribers…
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Launching the redesign of the Art of Manliness has gotten me thinking about our history, and how my understanding of manliness has evolved, deepened, and changed over that nearly two-decade-long span.The idea for the Art of Manliness…
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Every five years or so, Kate and I get the itch to redesign the Art of Manliness. I don’t fully know where it comes from. After eighteen years of running this site, our tastes change, our sense of what AoM is about changes, and at…
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