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Nine Bills You Can Negotiate: Ramit Sethi's Phone Scripts for Cutting Recurring Costs
Ramit Sethi argues that many people overpay every month on credit cards, medical bills, rent, internet service, insurance, and bank fees, sometimes by thousands of dollars a year, simply because they
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Turning Around a Pachinko Parlor's Diner: The Tasting Where Ryuji Said "I Can't Serve Food That Doesn't Taste Good," and What Came After
Culinary researcher Ryuji was invited to an in-store appearance event at "Garden Kitatoda," a pachinko parlor in Saitama. On the surface it was a pachinko appearance event, but the real purpose was to
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Brian Scanlan on Running a 15-Year-Old Rails Monolith as an Agent-First Engineering Organization
Intercom runs a Rails monolith that is about 15 years old and contains millions of lines of code. It also describes itself as "technically conservative." In this episode of On Rails, host Robby Russel
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Martin Kleppmann on Designing Data-Intensive Applications, the Cloud, and Research After Industry
Martin Kleppmann wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA), a standard reference for engineers who build large back-end systems. Nine years after the first edition, a heavily updated second e
23:37Eating Acecook's "Mala Tang Soupless Mazesoba" and Recreating It in the Microwave
In this episode, culinary researcher Ryuji tries Acecook's cup noodle "Mala Tang Soupless Mazesoba," which an acquaintance had urged them to eat, and recreates its flavor at home. Before eating, Ryuji
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Three Hearts and Most of Its Neurons in Its Arms: The Octopus as "Another Intelligence"
Three hearts and blue blood. This video presents the octopus as "an animal that, the more you learn about it, the less it seems like a creature of this Earth," and works through its body plan, nervous
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Bryan Johnson on Why He Built Blueprint: Ultra-Processed Food, "Toxic" Supply Chains, and Doing It Himself
This short documentary-style video presents Bryan Johnson's case that the modern food system is harmful and hard to escape, and explains how his company, Blueprint, tries to replace a large share of a
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Inside Emma Chamberlain's Updated Home: Letting a House Grow With You
Emma Chamberlain returns to the house she previously showed on camera and walks through what has changed. Her central idea is that a home can't be finished on move-in day. You learn what it needs by l
1:52:27Earning $142,000 With Nothing Saved: Ramit Sethi's Session With Molly and Jason
Molly (45) and Jason (46) live together near Lake Tahoe with their two-year-old daughter. They say they want to be rich: they want to buy a first house, invest in fixer-upper multifamily properties, a
18:34Eating Broccoli, Now a "Designated Vegetable," Sear-Steamed: Ryuji's One-Pan Broccoli Salad
In this video, cooking researcher Ryuji makes a broccoli salad. His claim is clear: broccoli tastes best when, instead of boiling it, you stir-fry it with bacon or sausage and then cover it with a lid
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"Bringing the Excitement Further Into the City": DeNA's Tomoko Namba and Yokohama Vanilla's Yuto Takahashi on Wonderia Yokohama and Yokohama's Potential
Ahead of the opening of Wonderia Yokohama, an immersive experience facility developed by DeNA, DeNA Chairman Tomoko Namba and Yuto Takahashi, who founded the gift sweets brand Yokohama Vanilla in Yoko
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Kao's "THE ANSWER" Launches a New Spring/Summer Line: The Ingredients and Design of "Seasonal Care SS," Built to Tackle Frizz and Puffiness in High Humidity
Kao's hair care brand "THE ANSWER," developed by drawing on the company's 100 years of hair care research, has launched a new series, "Seasonal Care SS," aimed specifically at the hair concerns that c
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Six Jobs, Six Paychecks: Street Interviews About Work and Salary in Hawaii
In this street-interview video, Hina, an English-teaching YouTuber, walks around Waikiki asking people what they do for a living. The format is the same for everyone. Hina asks about the person's back
17:58Three "Void Toasts" Finished with Ajishio: Egg, Tuna Mayo, and Garlic Natto
In this episode, culinary researcher Ryuji makes three low-effort "Void Toasts" using thick-sliced bread (six slices per loaf). It is a sponsored video from Ajinomoto, and the featured seasonings are
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Why Half of Product Managers Are in Trouble: Nikhyl Singhal on Builders, Judgment, and the Courage to Reinvent
Nikhyl Singhal is a former product executive at Meta, Google, and Credit Karma, a four-time founder, and the founder of The Skip, a community of about 125 heads of product. In his second appearance on
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Is Watching Content Ruining Your Love Life? Matthew Hussey on Advice That Replaces Action
Matthew Hussey opens by saying he feels "conflicted" making this video. He has been making dating and relationship advice for nearly 20 years and loves the work, but he sees a problem in how people us
24:30Comparing HIKAKIN's Barley Tea "ONICHA" with Kenko Mineral Mugicha: A Taste Test, Barley Tea Takikomi Gohan, and Thoughts on the Controversy
Cooking researcher Ryuji received HIKAKIN's barley tea "ONICHA" before its release and compared it with the best-selling barley tea in Japan. He compares the two straight, then mixed with barley shoch
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How a $250,000 Last-to-Leave Grocery Store Challenge Ended in a Million-Dollar Restock
MrBeast bought a grocery store, filled it with shoppers he says were strangers, and told them that whoever left last would win $250,000. The video follows that contest for 67 days. The store slowly em
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Seven Marathons, Seven Continents: Michelle Khare's Opening Days of the Great World Race
Michelle Khare opens the episode by saying that, after years of extreme challenges on the channel, this is the first one they genuinely believe might be impossible. The Great World Race asks runners t
12:52What Happened in the 15 Seconds of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Collapse, Fire, and a Disaster Response System That Failed
Smartphones in Japan come with an Earthquake Early Warning feature that sounds an alert before the ground starts shaking. The video names the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake as one of the events that l