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Back to SearchThe Future Keeps Ghosting Us (S2. Chapter 14)
Season 2 Episode 14
What if the future keeps ghosting you because it doesn’t want to be predicted?
In this chapter of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd wanders into prediction cul…
6 months ago
The Slow-Drip of Fascism (S2. Chapter 13)
Season 2 Episode 13
Lloyd Dobler uses the Tao Te Ching to make sense of a tragedy in Washington DC: a National Guard member killed, another critically wounded, and a pol…
6 months, 1 week ago
A Trojan Horse Walks Into Open AI (S2. Chapter 12)
Season 2 Episode 12
AI acceleration meets sensory overload meets the eerie quiet that appears when you finally silence your notifications. Lloyd uses the Tao Te Ching to…
6 months, 1 week ago
Pluribus. We Is Us (S2. Chapter 11)
Season 2 Episode 11
Lloyd Dobler returns with a guided meditation for an America that feels like it’s been written by Vince Gilligan on a bender with a quantum physicist…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Be Kind, Rewind: A Recap of Season 2, Chapters 1–10 | Tao of Lloyd
Season 2
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6 months, 2 weeks ago
Can I Write My Way Home? (S2. Chapter 10)
Season 2 Episode 10
A rediscovered 2011 letter from Diane Court kicks off a guided-meditation crisis. Lloyd turns to Chapter 10 to sift through memory, softening, relati…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Do Your Job and Go the F* Home (S2. Chapter 9)
Season 2 Episode 9
Burnout meets spiritual wisdom as Lloyd tries to follow the Tao’s advice to “step back” while TikTok insists you “go the f home.” From Black Friday c…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Be Water, My Friend (S2. Chapter 8)
Season 2 Episode 8
Lloyd channels the Tao Te Ching, Bruce Lee, and Standing Rock to figure out how to stay fluid in a country addicted to certainty, shouting, and weapo…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Zohran Mamdani v. Donald Trump (S2. Chapter 7)
Season 2 Episode 7
Lloyd holds Chapter 7 up to New York and accidentally walks into a borough-wide spiritual awakening involving Zohran Mamdani, a bureaucratic bull, an…
7 months ago
The Algorithm in a Long Swinging Red Tie (S2. Chapter 6)
Season 2 Episode 6
A cryptic Taoist passage meets an AI-fueled attention storm, and Lloyd tries to loosen his grip without dropping the entire plot. Between tech hype, …
7 months ago