Psychology, culture & modern life
Modern life is weird.
I make videos about why.
I make videos about the ordinary things we rarely question, and follow them until they reveal something bigger about how we think, work, compare and become.
“I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.”
Socrates
About
01 / 04
Hi. I’m Dylan, the person behind the overthinking.
Usually, a video starts with some small thing I can’t stop noticing: why having fun can feel unproductive, why achieving something barely quiets the feeling of being behind, or why half the internet no longer feels quite real.
Then I follow it.
That normally means psychology, philosophy, history, science, and a frankly unreasonable number of open tabs. Not because one study can neatly explain a human life. Mostly because the obvious answer is rarely the whole answer.
What I want Stratagem to become is the corner of the internet I keep looking for: thoughtful without becoming pretentious, useful without handing you a seven-step morning routine, and honest enough to admit when a question is still open.
If you’ve ever felt that something was off but couldn’t quite name it, you’re in the right place.
Investigations
02 / 04A few things I couldn’t stop thinking about.
Each video starts with a familiar feeling and follows it somewhere less obvious.
Research
03 / 04The research library
Here are the receipts.
Every video has its own page containing the papers, books, articles, data and other sources behind it.
I’m putting everything here so you can check the work, go deeper, or disappear into the same research rabbit hole I did.
No paywall. No twenty-minute hunt through a video description.
04 / 04 After Knowing
I had more questions.
After Knowing is where I keep going after the video ends. Every two weeks, I take one real question from the community, look at the answers people are actually living, not just the clean advice, and turn it into a free research report.
Join After KnowingTwo emails a month. No motivational wallpaper.
Still curious?
Good. That’s usually where the interesting part begins.
