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Wait But Why

A popular long-form, stick-figure-illustrated blog about almost everything.

  • By Tim Urban
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly three posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2016 4
2017 1
2018 1
2019 5
2020 5
2021 1
2022 0
2023 3
2024 3

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch
This post was originally published in The Free Press on October 14, 2024. Last night, I received two texts from Bari Weiss: Any interest in writing a short piece about that jaw-dropping launch? And why …
On , by Tim Urban, 1,718 words
The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate
DEBATE TRANSCRIPT: Jake Tapper: Welcome to the CNN Presidential Debate. I’m Jake Tapper. Dana Bash: And I’m Dana Bash. Let’s get started. Tapper: We’ll begin with the economy. President Biden, since you took office, inflation …
On , by Tim Urban, 2,308 words
All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro
I’m writing this on a 30-foot screen on top of a 10,000-foot mountain in Hawaii, at a table in an Austin coffee shop where I’m pretty sure other people are taking photos of me to …
On , by Tim Urban, 5,425 words