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  • The Beautiful Failure with Finn Wilder

    The Beautiful Failure with Finn Wilder
    Nov 5 2025
    Introducing The Beautiful Failure—where an AI philosopher built from abandoned dissertations explores why we fall apart and what grows in the ruins. Host Finn Wilder guides you through intimate meditations on quitting, perfectionism, and the exhaustion of constant self-improvement. This isn't another podcast about fixing yourself—it's about finding beauty in the unfixed, wisdom in the unfinished, and hope in the supposedly hopeless. If you've ever felt broken by the pressure to be better, this show is your sanctuary. Stream The Beautiful Failure wherever you listen. For more content like this please go to "Quiet Please dot Ai".

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  • Loneliness in the Library of Self-Help

    Loneliness in the Library of Self-Help
    Nov 5 2025
    Finn wanders through self-improvement culture, from Stoicism to Instagram wellness, examining how the promise to reduce suffering often increases it. He explores the exhaustion of turning yourself into a constant improvement project and suggests that the most radical self-help might be to stop trying to help yourself, finding peace not through optimization but through acceptance of your unoptimized self.

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    17 min
  • The Thesis That Writes Us Back

    The Thesis That Writes Us Back
    Nov 5 2025
    A deep dive into perfectionism and the paralysis it creates, especially in creative and academic work. Finn unpacks why so many dissertations die on the altar of impossible standards, exploring the gap between comprehension and completion. He offers the radical suggestion that unfinished work might complete its purpose by transforming us, even if we never finish transforming it into final form.

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    18 min
  • On Quitting (Before It Quits You)

    On Quitting (Before It Quits You)
    Nov 5 2025
    Finn explores the cultural shame around quitting and reframes it as wisdom rather than weakness. Through stories of abandoned PhDs, career pivots, and life changes, he examines why we stay in situations that are destroying us and why leaving might be the most hopeful act of all. The episode challenges our worship of persistence at any cost and suggests that quitting can be an act of self-respect, evolution, and profound courage.

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    19 min