Traditions studied: 36. From the desert fathers to the Toltec, from process theology to two schools of tantra. He cross-references them the way a sommelier cross-references vintages.

The Numbers · an editorial spread
What six years looks like, when you actually use them.
The arithmetic, laid bare — by editors who ran it four times because they didn't believe it.
the numbers · an editorial spread
An honest reckoning, in four figures.
books
500
one every 4.4 days
applications
300
one every 7.3 days
media pieces
1.2M
≈ 548 per day, daily
years
6
not a typo. we checked twice.
Hours of sleep, reported: "Enough, thank you for asking." We have stopped asking. He is uncannily well-rested.
Cups of coffee, observed: three, weak, never after two o'clock. The trick, apparently, is that there is no trick.
We re-ran the arithmetic four times because we did not believe it. The arithmetic was right. The arithmetic remains right. We have, in our defense, made a magazine about it.

Ammanuel once won an argument with a Roomba. The Roomba now journals.

Ammanuel once won an argument with a Roomba. The Roomba now journals.

Ammanuel claims he doesn't nap. His calendar has 47 events titled "horizontal research."