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Eight thoughts from a strange and harrowing world

H3 1) You can be simultaneously completely obsessed with and dramatically bored by the same person.

H3 2) Toddlers are dicks.

H3 3) No one wants to see videos of someone else’s toddler.

H3 4) Someone else’s toddler can ruin your week.

H3 5) Toddlers are geniuses who are also very dumb.

H3 6) Toddlers have a highly inaccurate worldview.

H3 7) Toddlers are both the funniest and least funny possible people.

H3 8) Toddler parents have very strong opinions and everyone is very judgy.

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SUB-PAGE (https://waitbutwhy.com/2020/09/universe.html) The Big and the Small — Wait But Why

I have a surprise for you.
I’ll tell you about it in a minute. First, let’s have a little fun. Come with me.

I haven’t told anyone this before, but I actually live in the fun room. I just gave you a tour of my house, where I spend a large portion of my life thinking about the size of things.
I have visitors in the fun room from time to time, but after a few minutes, they’re usually pretty funned out and leave me to my crises. But one day, something unexpected happened.
It was 2013. Wait But Why was a few months old. And I got an email from someone named Philipp Dettmer. I was slightly unsettled by the pp and tt, but I decided to read what he had to say.
He explained that he lives in Germany where he makes animated educational videos about a lot of different things, kind of like Wait But Why but a different medium. I took a look at his YouTube page. It was named a random string of letters:
kurzgesagt
Apparently it means “In a Nutshell” in German, but I didn’t know that at the time and was very close to being done with Philipp Dettmer for good when I decided to watch one of the videos.
It was delightful.
I watched another. And another. And then it hit me.
Philipp—this random man in Germany—also lives in the fun room.
The next day, we were on the phone. There was a lot to talk about. We decided we had to do something together, and we settled on adapting one of my early posts into a kurzgesagt video.1
In the seven years since then, Philipp and I have become great friends, and I have not missed a kurzgesagt video since. Whenever Philipp and I get dinner, we head straight to the fun room to talk about the universe. And a few months ago, we decided to collaborate again. It was time to go public with the fun room.
At some point in our pasts, we had both become enamored with two fun room icons, Cary and Michael Huang, known on the internet as the Huang Twins. The twins do a lot of cool things, but it was their Scale of the Universe toy that we loved most.
Inspired by their work, we decided to go for it. We wanted to make the best size explorer we could imagine. We called it Universe in a Nutshell.
Of course, it took roughly 18 times longer than we thought it would. We brainstormed the interface for quite some time, and then Philipp, along with the incredible kurzgesagt team, dug into working on illustrations and animations, while I worked with the team on the written explainers.
Thousands of human hours later, the app is done. 250 objects, 30,000+ words of explanations and fun facts, just the right mood music, and what we think is a pretty great interface.
Here’s how it works:
The app is a giant wall. The wall is impossibly large—large enough to fit full-sized galaxies on it. The wall is also impossibly high-resolution—hi-res enough to contain sharp images of subatomic particles.
I know it seems weird that I’m talking about it as if it’s a real object, but I have a good reason: to get the full mind-blow effect, you have to realize what you’re looking at. You’re not moving forward and backward through a tunnel of objects—it just seems that way because your brain will refuse to accept the insanity of the actual sizes you’re seeing. By reminding yourself again and again that all of these objects are “painted” on the same 2D wall, you’ll hopefully experience some fun mind-bending moments.
The app looks like this:
And this:
And this:
And there are three ways to zoom:
You can tap any object for an explainer and fun facts. All of the facts you just read in the fun room are also in the app, along with a million other things. (The surprisingly-good-for-Wait-But-Why-illustrations from the fun room are the work of Kurzgesagt. Don’t think this is some new normal.)
Three more things:
1) The app is $3 in the US store, which, considering the fact that a magical infinite wall should really go for like $2.5 million, is a huge steal.
2) If you like the app, please give it a rating or review. For example, here’s my review:
3) This is V1 of the app. As we made the app, we had a constant side conversation going on about possibilities for V2, V3, and beyond. We’re launching today, but this is just the beginning. We want this app to be a brain playground that just keeps getting better and better. And here’s where you come in.
As you use the app, whenever you have an “I wish the app did X” or “It would be so cool if the app could do Y” thought, we want to hear it. As this is V1, we of course also want to know whenever you have a “This isn’t working right” or an “I think this fact is off” thought. In the app’s menu, you’ll see a “feedback” tab, where you can tap the feedback email address and let us know what you’re thinking.
Okay, here you go. Click the left app for iPhone/iPad, the right one for Android.

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Also: To commemorate the app launch, Kurzgesagt did their own fun room creation today—a delightful video about the sizes of stars.
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If you like Wait But Why, sign up for our unannoying-I-promise email list and we’ll send you new posts when they come out.
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More trips to the fun room:
The Fermi Paradox
The SpaceX Post
The Quadrillion Sour Patch Kids Post
And a trip to the not-so-fun room
Kurzgesagt did an updated version of the video in 2018.↩

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SUB-PAGE (https://waitbutwhy.com/2025/11/bhutan.html) The sights and sounds of Bhutan — Wait But Why

Ever present in my mind is The List: the countries I still haven’t gone to that I most want to visit.
Ethiopia is on The List. So is Indonesia. And South Korea. And Madagascar. And Taiwan.
Early on, my wife and I pledged to visit two new countries every year, and we mostly pulled it off. Then came Covid, followed by two babies, and we fell off the wagon.
This year we remembered that we were gonna die at some point and decided it was time to get things going again. We dusted off The List, picked a country that’s been at the very top for years, tossed the kids to the grandparents for a week, and headed off to Bhutan.1
Bhutan, if you’re not familiar, is a tiny 800,000-person country squashed between two behemoths.

Bhutan was unified in the 17th century after millennia of existing as a collection of warring tribes. In the time since then, it has somehow avoided being annexed by China or India. Today, it is the world’s last Buddhist kingdom, and I can confirm that it is both very Buddhist and very kingdom-y. Temples are everywhere, and the people are highly superstitious—our tour guide seemed to constantly be remarking about good luck and bad luck, promising omens and inauspicious riverbends. (The temples are beautiful, but so are all the other buildings. All architecture in the country, from the airport to the shopping centers, has a uniform Bhutanese style.)

The king is universally beloved and, at least the way they tell it, an exemplary ruler. A typical story we heard: 50,000 people work in the country’s tourist industry, all of whom were suddenly out of work during Covid. So the king gave these families $120/month, enough to get by on until the industry came back. He paid this out of his own pocket, nearly to the point of personal bankruptcy.
(Of course, I was also told in North Korea that it was only by the grace and courage of their magnanimous leaders that the people were prosperous and free, unlike their unfortunate South Korean cousins suffering under American occupation. But the situations are wildly different and I am inclined to mostly believe what I heard in Bhutan.)
One more story to illustrate what a sweetie Bhutan is: The country has a strict policy against killing animals and never euthanizes stray dogs, so there are a lot of them. They mostly live off the detritus of restaurants and hotels. When everything shut down during Covid, the king told people to bring cooked food out to the dogs and even wrap them in blankets during the cold months.
Bhutan does things differently than other countries. Hellbent on preserving their traditional way of life, TV and internet were banned in the country until 1999, and if it weren’t for the cars, I might have been convinced I had taken a time machine back to the 1600s. Tourism is limited, only possible in the form of a guided tour, and immigrating to the country is near impossible. They are so diligent about conservation that Bhutan is the world’s one carbon-negative country—their vast forests absorb more CO2 than their populace emits.
In 1972, Bhutan’s king decided that Gross National Happiness was a more important metric than Gross Domestic Product, and their policies cater to this value.2 It’s why Bhutan is famous for supposedly being the world’s happiest country, which I had no way to verify, but the people were very kind and seemed pretty happy I guess?
Sadly, Bhutan’s way of life is threatened now as many of its young people have left to find opportunity elsewhere. The king is attempting to fix this with plans to construct Gelephu Mindfulness City, an economic hub which will center around innovation, while preserving Bhutanese tradition. It looks like it’ll be incredible, though I was told not to hold my breath as it will probably not be finished for 20 more years.
All of this is to say that Bhutan is a special place—remote, mysterious, and breathtakingly beautiful. Which is why it was always prominently on The List.
A trip to Bhutan is better shown than told, so I kept most of the details to this video:
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More posts from The List:SiberiaTokyoNigeriaIraqGreenlandNorth KoreaAnd The genie question
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It is not quick to get from Austin to Bhutan. We had to get there by way of Chicago, Zurich, and Delhi.↩In 2011, the UN passed a resolution being like, “all of you other shitty countries should consider focusing on Gross National Happiness too.” Everyone appears to have ignored them.↩

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SUB-PAGE (https://waitbutwhy.com/2025/10/toddler.html) Tales from Toddlerhood — Wait But Why

Back in 2023, I wrote a post about having my first baby and all the things that confused me about doing so.
Earlier this year, it happened again. Just like that, I was back here:

On one hand, now time doesn’t exist at all.

On the other hand, the second child is…easier than the first.

But I’m not here to talk about the new baby, delightful and obese as she may be. Today, I report to you from the depths of toddler parenthood. I always thought two-year-olds were basically unconscious blobs with a cold, but it turns out they’re actual people you can get to know. Having now spent some time cohabitating with one, I’ve made the following discoveries:
[H3] 1) You can be simultaneously completely obsessed with and dramatically bored by the same person.
Sometimes when I’m working in my office, my daughter will toddle in, run over to me, and give me a hug. It is by far the best part of my day. Her smile fills me with utter joy. Her little voice is sent straight from heaven. I feel the purest possible love for her.
It’s just that I also find her groundbreakingly boring. A five-minute hangout is one thing, but when I’m deep in an afternoon with her, it’s hard to come to any other conclusion than that I’ve spent my last three hours with a person whose IQ is 20.
[IMG: toddler: The cow says moo! parent, lying on ground: It does.]

[H3] 2) Toddlers are dicks.
It’s well-known that toddlers transform into mid-20th-century totalitarian dictators at the drop of a hat.

But they’re dicks in less obvious ways too. The other day, my toddler was playing with Legos. I sat down next to her and asked her what she was building, and she said, “Daddy needs to work in his office?”—an unsubtle hint that I should leave her the fuck alone.
Or the times I cook a whole thing for her with care and love and she refuses to take a bite, making me feel cluey for myself.
Most recently, I made the mistake of telling her my age, and now she says “Daddy is 43” like 30 times a day, constantly filling me with existential dread.
[IMG: dad: I love you.
toddler: I love mommy.]

[H3] 3) No one wants to see videos of someone else’s toddler.
Toddler parenthood is a reality distortion zone that makes it hard to remember that most people find your toddler breathtakingly uninteresting.1
[IMG: showing a stranger a video of your kid: Aw so cute! (thought bubble: Oh my god it]

Friends who have kids the same age as yours are kind of in a cohort together, so parents of toddlers often end up with a whole throng of toddlers in their lives. Amongst my cohort I’ve both been an offender and frequent victim of toddler-video-showing. It’s part of the tax we all pay.2
I try to at least minimize the fallout from my end.
[IMG: Three circles showing who I send toddler/baby photos and videos to: tiny circle labeled Friends, slightly bigger circle labeled Family, and huge circle labeled Wife]

[H3] 4) Someone else’s toddler can ruin your week.

[H3] 5) Toddlers are geniuses who are also very dumb.
If I took my daughter to China for a year, and we just lived there with no language instruction, I’d come back knowing approximately six Mandarin words and she’d be fluent. It makes no sense to me that toddlers just learn a language by hearing the language, but somehow they do. They’re weird freak geniuses. But then she says stuff like “would you like a strawberry?” when she wants a strawberry, because when we say “you,” it refers to her, so she now thinks “you” is a synonym for her name, which is very unimpressive.
Likewise, the other day I read her a new book for the first time, and then the second time I read it to her, she stopped me in the middle to correct something I said. It turns out I had accidentally skipped a word, which she knew because she somehow memorized the whole book on the first read. But then we’ll pick up another book and she’ll stare at the page for a million years looking for where Curious George is “hiding” even though he’s obviously right the fuck there.
[H3] 6) Toddlers have a highly inaccurate worldview.
We sometimes take our toddler to story time at the library, where the librarian reads a book to a bunch of kids. The first time we took her, she decided to take matters into her own hands and, mid-story, went and sat in the librarian’s lap. The issue is that she hadn’t quite figured out that the world does not exist entirely for her benefit.
It’s understandable. You’re born into the world and for the first few years, everyone you see smiles and waves at you, so you overestimate your importance. Only slowly do you learn what’s really happening.3

This is part of the broader phenomenon of a toddler not really having any idea what’s going on. They don’t know about death, or money, or history, or sex, or the Big Bang, or basically anything about reality. They just emerged out of nowhere and started being, which for some reason doesn’t strike them as weird or confusing.
(A good “do you have any idea what’s going on?” litmus test is: If you’re walking down the street and an elephant flies down from the sky, hovers ten feet above you and says hello in a silly cartoon voice before flying off, would you be like “OH MY GOD WHAT JUST HAPPENED” or would you shrug and be like “I guess that’s something that happens”? If the latter, you have no idea what’s going on. Most two-year-olds fail this test.)
[H3] 7) Toddlers are both the funniest and least funny possible people.
My daughter is remarkably unfunny. Once when she dropped something, I said “kerplunk,” and she found it fucking hilarious. For the next ten minutes, she kept picking things up, dropping them, and saying “kerplunk,” hysterically laughing each time.
But unintentionally, she’s a comedic genius. When I was in her way recently, she said, “Can you get out of space?” which my wife and I now say to each other whenever we want the other to move. Another time, we had to rip a band-aid off her leg, after which she said, “I am so perfectly sad,” and now my wife and I say that anytime we’re unhappy about something.4
We’ve also discovered an amazing hack: you can just teach a toddler to say whatever you want. We taught her to say “mamma mia” whenever she falls over, which I highly recommend to other toddler parents.
[H3] 8) Toddler parents have very strong opinions and everyone is very judgy.
[IMG: Two parents silently judging each other. The parent of the toddler without cotton candy thinks: Imagine giving that to your kid. The parent of the toddler with cotton candy thinks: Imagine depriving your kid of that.]

The problem is, for every strong opinion, there’s an equally strong opposite opinion.
[IMG: pairings of competing parenting advice, like: Toddlers thrive on routine vs Follow their natural rhythms and cues, and Supervision vs Freedom.]

I’ve taken to accepting that I’m messing up all kinds of things, and mainly just try to have fun with my little friend. To the extent that I have a strategy, it’s basically:
Spend lots of (phone-free) time with her
Show her that the world is a fun and fascinating place
Encourage her to reason from first principles
Don’t interrupt her when she’s focused or daydreaming; help her learn to be entertained by her own mind
Refrain from imposing lots of little rules, but where there are rules, be firm about them
Build problem-solving confidence, teaching her to become a person who says “I want to figure out the directions” instead of a person who says “let’s just ask someone”
Toddler parents can take solace in the fact that parenting probably matters less than we think it does. Rather than try to shape our little two-foot-tall companions, we should help guide them to become the best version of who they already are.
Anyway, gotta go. Time to read Squeak the Mouse Likes His House for the 57th time.
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More tales from fatherhood: 10 Thoughts from the Fourth Trimester
My favorite toddler books: Flotsam, Little Fur Family, The Giant Jam Sandwich, Little Owl’s Night
If you’d rather read about something other than my fat babies:
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Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think
Why I’m Always Late
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Toddler grandparents may be an exception, though they span a wide range, from “Please go away for a month and leave them with me” on one end, to “I will play with them for five minutes but only because it looks bad if I don’t” on the other. Those on the latter end are as bored by toddler videos as everyone else.↩There’s a range here. A short, high-quality video of a good friend’s toddler, sent by text (so you can watch on your own time and don’t have to react the whole time) is fine—nice even. A person you barely know showing you a long toddler video, in person, is a nightmare.↩Some have suggested that the common desire for fame is, in some subconscious sense, an attempt to recapture the long-lost feeling that the whole world knows and loves you.↩She actually said “Can I get out of space?” and “You are so perfectly sad” because, again, she is confused about pronouns.↩

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Your Diagnosis

Before revealing the machine’s verdict, predict the BS score for each signal. Higher = more BS (more fluff, less verifiable substance). Drag each slider, then submit to compare your judgment against the engine.

Information Density 0 / 30

Read the Narrative & headings: do hard facts (prices, dates, numbers) outweigh fluff power-words?

Semantic Coherence 0 / 20

Compare the homepage promise against the sub-page reality. Do they hold the same line?

Trust & Proof 0 / 20

Weigh review mentions against actual external proof links. Claims without verification = theatre.

Commodity Fingerprint 0 / 15

Check headings & narrative against the industry clichés in the setup above.

Identity & Authority 0 / 15

Inspect the schema: is there real Organization/Person identity with sameAs links, or gaps?

Your predicted BS score 0 / 100

💡 Stuck? Reveal the heuristic lens — how the deterministic page-auditor reads each signal (no AI, pure pattern rules)

These are the structural rules a local, deterministic auditor applies — the same lens you can use to judge each signal. They describe what to look for, not this company’s result.

Information Density

Classify each sentence as substantive or hollow. Grounding markers — numbers, currencies, dates, technical units, named entities — outweigh marketing adjectives. When fluff sits right next to hard evidence, the fluff is forgiven.

Semantic Alignment

Pull the main entities out of the H1, then check whether they actually recur through the body. A page that announces one thing and then talks about another drifts. Headings with no real sentences underneath read as pseudo-substance.

Trust & Proof

Count trust words (review, testimonial, rating, verified) against real outbound proof links (Google, Trustpilot, Clutch, G2, Yelp). Lots of trust language with zero verification links is trust theatre. Unlinked logo galleries count against it.

Commodity Fingerprint

Look at how much sentence length varies. Natural writing varies its rhythm; templated or mass-produced copy is statistically uniform. Very low variation reads as commodity content — unless unique named entities break the pattern.

Identity & Authority

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Want to apply this lens yourself? The free BS Indicator Chrome extension runs these heuristic checks live on any page. Bear in mind it is a single-page, deterministic tool — it relies only on pattern rules for the page in front of it and does not perform the cross-page semantic correlation this audit uses, so its readout is a starting lens, not the full verdict.

BS Level

Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands

38.7 Avg BS

Based on 218 businesses audited.

✓ Less BS than average

Wait But Why has 33.7 points less BS than the average for Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands.

BS Detector

Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands BS: Wait But Why (waitbutwhy.com)

https://waitbutwhy.com 📍 Industry: Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands

5 BS / 100

Expert Verdict

Wait But Why is a forensic benchmark for anti-bullshit. The site produces content with a signal-to-noise ratio that makes standard industry jargon irrelevant. It is a rare example where the personal brand is supported by sheer intellectual labor rather than marketing theatre.

Info Density Power-words vs. Substance ratio.

10% BS

Semantic Coherence Homepage promise vs. Sub-page reality.

0% BS

Trust & Proof Verifiable evidence vs. Trust Theatre.

0% BS

Commodity Fingerprint Detection of industry clichés/templates.

7% BS

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.

7% BS

BS Reduction Prescription

Resolve the Schema identity discrepancy by updating the @id fields to the production domain instead of the staging URL. Map H1 heading tags correctly in the metadata to match the [H1] text present on the page. Add specific meta-descriptions for sub-pages like ‘Bhutan’ and ‘Universe’ to ensure technical visibility matches content quality. Refresh the homepage ‘dateModified’ schema to reflect the actual current activity seen in the 2026 posts.

Industry Match & Score Summary

Industry Classification

Wait But Why perfectly fits the Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands category, functioning as a high-authority content hub. The content confirms the creator-led model through distinctive personal narratives and first-principles technical explainers, eschewing commodity content strategies.

“The score of 5 is driven by the technical identity discrepancy in the schema and a minor penalty for branding repetition. Every other pillar is at or near zero due to an extreme density of substance and the total absence of industry-standard marketing fluff. The content is significantly more current than the homepage metadata suggests, with active posts dated only days before the May 2026 anchor.”

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Analysis Disclosure & Source Attribution

This training module utilizes a snapshot of public data from Wait But Why, captured on May 24, 2026, to demonstrate how machine logic evaluates different types of business narratives.

Purpose: This data is presented under “Fair Use” / “Educational Exception” for the purpose of forensic semantic analysis, allowing users to compare human intuition against machine-generated evaluations.

Notice to Wait But Why: This analysis is part of a non-adversarial audit conducted by 1 Euro SEO. The results provided by 1EuroSEO are intended as professional feedback to help improve any website’s machine-readability and authority signals. The 1EuroSEO BS Detection Tool is a free tool, and anyone can test any company to see how their content is interpreted by AI models.

Any company can use the insights for free and improve its voice by comparing it to industry clichés or competitors. When a company has updated its content, it can always submit a new audit request, which will be reflected in a new current score.

To all users: You are encouraged to visit the live site at https://waitbutwhy.com to view the most current version of its content and learn from the source what this company is about and what it offers.

Brand AI Reputation

Training Example: Wait But Why – Review the Data, Give Your Score & Compare to the Real AI Evaluation

Wait But Why

Your Diagnosis

Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands BS: Wait But Why (waitbutwhy.com)