From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to Stay Tuned.

I'm Pete Barara.

If you look at what really matters in life, the kind of things that matter on your deathbed,

you know, that you think back on the written in your eulogy, that you regret deeply if you don't do later,

the majority of those things are not that line-based.

That's Tim Urban.

He's the brain behind the wildly popular blog, Weight But Why, where he writes long-form pieces about well, almost everything.

Artificial intelligence, relationships, mortality, human psychology, and so much more.

Tim's 2016 TED Talk about why people procrastinate is among the most viewed TED Talks ever.

Tim's work aims to dig deep into the human brain and explain huge complicated topics to the everyday person.

And to do that, he has to reach in his words about a six out of ten on an expertise scale for each of the topics he writes about.

Tim joins me to discuss what's behind his work, why we procrastinate, and how what psychologists call pluralistic ignorance, drives political and social tribalism.

That's coming up. Stay tuned.

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