Hot Literati
Hot Literati
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Episodes
107. The Entropy of Beauty 08.05.2026 17:07
The second law of thermodynamics says that disorder always increases. Not sometimes. Always. Ludwig Boltzmann proved it in the 1870s. Rudolf Clausius named it. The universe is moving toward a state of maximum entropy — a cold, uniform, perfectly disordered nothing — and there are no known exceptions to this law. This episode covers the actual physics: entropy and the second law, Edward Lorenz and...
106. Stop Competing and Start Cheering People On 01.05.2026 17:21
In this episode, hailo discusses competition versus community and abundance versus scarcity, mentioning Alain de Botton's book Status Anxiety, and Between Women by Eichenbaum and Orbach. Join our community at hotliterati.com
105. How to Stop Dating People who Suck 26.04.2026 12:07
In this video, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn discusses dating and self love through the lens Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, bell hooks, the book of Genesis in the Bible, and more. join our community and shop guided journals at hotliterati.com
104. What Your Commute Did to Your Ambition 16.04.2026 16:34
Why do some places produce big thinkers and others quietly teach you to want less? In this episode, we're interrogating the invisible architecture of ambition — how the towns we grew up in, the roads we drove on, and the social codes we inherited may have put a ceiling on what we let ourselves want without us ever noticing. We get into the history: the Protestant work ethic, agricultural scarc...
103. Explaining Taxes, but Hot 11.04.2026 16:22
Become a Hot Literati member at hotliterati.com Taxes explained for beginners. How tax brackets work, what deductions are, standard deduction vs itemizing, W-2 vs 1099, self-employment tax, traditional IRA vs Roth IRA, and health savings accounts — everything covered in plain language.hotliterati.com | @hotliterati
102. Brain Rot is Not Cute 10.04.2026 16:21
Join our community at hotliterati.com! In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn discusses brain rot, curiosity , her media diet, and more.
101. Dating Older Men and the Millennial Novel 09.04.2026 13:17
Join our community at hotliterati.com! In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn discusses Jennette McCurdy's debut novel, "Half His Age," with nods to "Normal People" by Sally Rooney, and "Acts of Desparation" by Megan Nolan. #books #bookclub #halfhisage #bookreview
100. Why Some People Are Magnetic 08.04.2026 10:21
Join Hot Literati at hotliterati.com Why Some People Are Magnetic It's not confidence. It's not looks. It's not charisma in the way people usually mean it. In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn makes the case that the rarest thing you can give someone isn't your time — it's your attention. Real attention, not performed attention. And most of us have never bee...
99. How the Internet Changed Everything for Creatives (And What to Do About It) 07.04.2026 10:35
Join our community and get hotter and smarter at hotliterati.com The internet didn't ruin things for creatives. It changed the rules — and nobody explained what the new ones are. In this episode, we get into the economics of replication (why your work alone can't be scarce anymore and what can be), the difference between a personal brand and performing one, and what virality actually is ve...
98. The Case for Not Being Your Job 05.04.2026 17:30
The industrial model of work did something genuinely strange to human beings: it convinced us that what we do and who we are are the same thing. Now that model is ending — quickly — and most people have no framework for what comes next. In this video: how the industrial system created the modern self, Charles Taylor on identity and orientation, why the dominant response to AI and automation is the...
97. What if it works out? 03.04.2026 11:18
What if the thing you're most afraid won't work is the exact thing that does? This video is about belief — not as a feeling, but as a cognitive environment. What neuroscience actually says about optimism and performance. What sociologist Robert Merton's self-fulfilling prophecy tells us about how belief changes outcomes at a structural level. What complexity theory says about tipping p...
96. A Pep talk to myself about Hot Literati hehe 02.04.2026 5:42
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95. The Difference Between Consuming and Thinking 01.04.2026 13:16
Hot Literati is built on one premise: depth is worth protecting. This video is about the cognitive difference between passing information through your brain and actually doing something with it — and why that distinction has never mattered more. In this video: Mortimer Adler's three levels of reading and why most people never reach the third, how confirmation bias runs unchecked when you'r...
94. The Psychology of why Some People are More Interesting 31.03.2026 12:20
Join us at hotliterati.com to get hotter and smarter. Some people walk into a room and hold it without trying. Others disappear from memory the moment the conversation ends. The difference isn't personality or charisma. It's something much more specific — and it's learnable. In this video: why performing makes you forgettable (Goffman's theory of social interaction), what mirror ne...
93. How to get out of a Reading Slump 27.03.2026 10:50
Join our community at hotliterati.com In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn describes how to get out of a reading slump.
92. Stop Identifying with Everything You Read 27.03.2026 13:03
Join our community at hotliterati.com In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn explores why reading The Bell Jar made her depressed, and how she learned to read critically without identifying with the characters.
91. Read, Write, Own by Chris Dixon 27.03.2026 15:55
Join our community at hotliterati.com In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn gives her thoughts on Read, Write, Own by Chris Dixon.
90. Is Your Media Diet Making You Ugly? 27.03.2026 11:16
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89. How Reading Dostoevsky Can Make You Hotter 27.02.2026 7:05
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88. Dating in London 27.02.2026 55:15
Join our community at hotliterati.com :) xoxo In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn discusses dating, building community, and art with the two women behind Art Dating Club, Jannah and Isabella.
87. Moby Dick, or The Whale 13.02.2026 28:30
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86. Althea Aguel on Princeton, Music, and Technology 06.02.2026 47:03
join us at hotliterati.com In this episode, hailo and Althea discuss their time at Princeton, art, navigating your 20s, and more.
85. How to Choose a Career Path 30.01.2026 21:19
In this episode, Hailey "hailo" Denise Colborn describes her journey throughout her career, ultimately building Hot Literati. Get a Guided Journal and join Hot Literati at hotliterati.com Join our mailing list https://hotliterati.substack.com/Get the Hot Literati Handbook https://www.hotliterati.com/product-page/the-hot-literati-handbook
84. All the books hailo read in 2025 23.01.2026 27:17
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83. Dance, Race, & Technology with Kaylin Williams 16.01.2026 25:45
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