Short essays on what the wisest people who ever lived keep telling us — companion notes to our films, and a daily look at the news through the eyes of the wise.
The build-log of the show itself: every invitation, every reply, and every milestone on the way to the first recorded conversation — written as it happens, with the uncertainty left in.
We sent Gary Player the 1991 photograph of him standing beside my father on a Johannesburg fairway — and his office replied the next morning. The story of this project's first invitation.
Read the essay →The moment a date lands on the calendar, the full story lands here.
The internet's biggest story of the day, held up against what people at the end of long lives say actually matters. Sometimes the principles were applied. Sometimes they weren't. Either way, there's a lesson.
Chip stocks fell from Seoul to Amsterdam on doubts about the money behind AI — Samsung and SK Hynix lost more than 13% in a day, with nothing burned and nobody bankrupt. Let's see what wisdom says about riches that make themselves wings.
Read the essay →Pogačar sealed his fifth Tour in Paris, tying a record four champions shared for half a century — and Eddy Merckx, 81, predicted he'd lose it altogether, sounding pleased. Let's see what wisdom says about generations and borrowed praise.
Read the essay →Tadej Pogačar begins the Tour's final stage six and a half minutes from a fifth title, with his great rival out since a crash a week ago. Let's see what wisdom says about fallen rivals and unclaimed tomorrows.
Read the essay →Wildfires pushed 87,000 people from their homes in France and Spain; off Cap Ferret, the way out was by boat. Let's see what wisdom says about what a hand can carry.
Read the essay →Behind each of our compilation films: who said it, where it came from, and what the wise have always said about it.
Who said it, where it came from, and what the wise have always said about it — arriving with each film.