Topics

Three years of videos. 66 million views. The same questions underneath all of it: How do you live with intention in an age that rewards distraction? What does it mean to make something with your hands? What do you owe the people who come after you?

These five topics are the through-lines. Each page collects every video Van has made on that subject: the arguments, the builds, the confessions. With the transcript passages that carry the weight.

Analog Living

Van's thesis: using AI to live more analog. Manual transmissions, typewriters, film photography, handmade tools. The argument for choosing friction.

Tools & Craft

Workshop philosophy. Swiss Army knives, tool kits, unauthorized repairs, forbidden practices, and the case for fixing instead of replacing.

The Fourth Turning

Strauss and Howe's generational theory. 80-year cycles, crisis periods, and what it means for people alive rig80-year cycles, crisis periods, and what it means for people alive right now. 2.6 million views across three videos.

Sobriety

Recovery, discipline, the relationship between sobriety and creative work. The videos Van almost didn't make.

Fatherhood

Dangerous toys, playhouses, playing catch, intergenerational debt. What you owe your children is what your parents owed you.