https://wellofnine.com/ Nine domains of practical competence, taught with cited sources. Two episodes a week: the Monday flagship and the Thursday draw. en-us https://wellofnine.com/episodes/what-does-the-land-ask-of-you.html https://wellofnine.com/episodes/what-does-the-land-ask-of-you.html Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The Land You were told to want things faster. The land was never told anything of the kind. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRuTb7rrDT0 https://wellofnine.com/draws/four-questions.html https://wellofnine.com/draws/four-questions.html Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The Craft There is a man who has replaced every part of a machine except the one that was broken. He is tired, he is poorer, and the machine still does not run. This episode is the tool that would have saved him — and it is not made of steel. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2h7CkEMitM https://wellofnine.com/episodes/when-the-phones-die-what-remains.html https://wellofnine.com/episodes/when-the-phones-die-what-remains.html Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The Signal When the phones die, what remains? The always-on network is a chain of borrowed things — towers, power, the lines between them — and chains get recalled. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A2XTqBV1Ro https://wellofnine.com/draws/drug-label.html https://wellofnine.com/draws/drug-label.html Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The Body There is a wall in every pharmacy built to confuse you — forty boxes for cold and flu, in forty liveries, and beneath the paint perhaps six actual medicines. The front of the box is theater. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSngc7mjLUY https://wellofnine.com/episodes/why-do-things-break.html https://wellofnine.com/episodes/why-do-things-break.html Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The Craft Why do things break — the roof, the car, the marriage? Most things do not fail all at once: they fail slowly, then suddenly — and long before the crack is visible, the thing is already whispering to anyone willing to listen. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQPYbWyU53Q https://wellofnine.com/draws/tourniquet.html https://wellofnine.com/draws/tourniquet.html Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The Body Someone near you is bleeding badly and the ambulance is minutes away. For those minutes, the only hands in the room are yours. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kmurpZheok https://wellofnine.com/episodes/what-will-actually-kill-you.html https://wellofnine.com/episodes/what-will-actually-kill-you.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The Body You are probably afraid of the wrong death. The things that actually end most lives are public knowledge, slow-moving, and — this is the good news — answerable. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQEN8AKiAHw https://wellofnine.com/episodes/when-is-it-right-to-fight.html https://wellofnine.com/episodes/when-is-it-right-to-fight.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The Mirror × The Wolf An emperor who spent the hardest years of his reign at war worked at the answer in a private notebook, and a philosopher who watched Rome consumed by rage wrote it into a book. Where they arrive: the strong person's first victory is over their own temper. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4xUnQcDwgU https://wellofnine.com/episodes/what-is-yours-to-carry.html https://wellofnine.com/episodes/what-is-yours-to-carry.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The Mirror What the Stoics actually meant by control — not "stay calm," but a sort you perform: what is yours to act on, and which outcomes were never yours to hold. Ends with the one thing to do tonight. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iO3gZSpZQE https://wellofnine.com/episodes/why-nine.html https://wellofnine.com/episodes/why-nine.html Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 The Well The origin of the Well of Nine: Mímir's well beneath Yggdrasil, the price of wisdom, and the nine domains of competence this channel draws from. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzBaXQLQzDY