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May 29 · 13 min
111. How to be Hotter
Hot isn't about your face. It's about presence — and presence is something you can actually learn.In this episode we go into the psychology and neuroscience behind what makes someone genuinely magnetic: the difference between presence and performance, why embodiment is a cognitive skill and not just a wellness concept, how your style communicates before you open your mouth, and why the promises you make to yourself are the foundation of real confidence.This episode is connected to How to Be Hotter, a course in the Hot Literati Academy that covers the art of flirting, style as self-expression, sensuality and embodiment, presence and magnetism, and self-care as a philosophical practice. You can take it as a standalone course at hotliterati.com or become a Hot Literati Member and get access to the full library — all courses, all reading companions, everything we've built.Membership is capped at 1,000. We're getting close.Take the course: hotliterati.com/coursesBecome a Hot Literati Member: https://www.hotliterati.com/pricing-plans/listFollow us on Instagram: @hotliteratiHot Literati is a lifestyle brand and community for hot, cool, well-read people.
May 29 · 6 min
Why You Should Have a Morning/Evening Routine
Most people think a morning routine is about waking up earlier. It isn't. It's about what your mind processes first — and whether you chose that, or an algorithm did.Edmund Husserl, the philosopher who founded phenomenology, had a concept called intentionality: consciousness is never just on, it's always consciousness of something. There's no blank version of your mind. So the real question every morning isn't whether you're awake. It's what you're awake toward — and for most people, that's a notification before it's anything of their own choosing.In this episode:— Why sequencing matters more than wake-up time, and what your brain's reticular activating system has to do with it— The evening half of this that almost nobody designs, and why your last conscious thought of the day gets quietly filed away while you sleep— Why this is an interiority problem, not a discipline problem — and why design solves it, not willpowerThis is the thinking behind Build Your Morning and Evening Routine, inside Hot Literati Academy. If you want the actual structure — not a template, the design — it's on the site.hotliterati.com
May 22 · 25 min
110. Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
In this episode, hailo discusses the publication history of Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov, then discusses her thoughts on the book, her annotations, consciousness, surrealism, and more. Join our community to become hotter, smarter, and more intellectually confident at https://www.hotliterati.com/Check out our guided courses at https://www.hotliterati.com/coursesFollow hailo https://linktr.ee/haileycolborn#nabokov #vladimirnabokov #literature #russianliterature #bookclub
May 17 · 21 min
109. In Defense of Alex Cooper
hello! In this episode we're discussing the Alix Earle/Alex Cooper drama, the philosophy of celebrity culture, and the World Wide Web!Join our community at hotliterati.com ! I'd love to get to know you more. We also have Guided Journals, our book club, and so much more on our website.
May 15 · 10 min
108. Sula by Toni Morrison
In this video, hailo discusses the publication history of Sula By Toni Morrison, then goes through her own annotations and thoughts on the book. Join Hot Literati at hotliterati.com Check out our online courses https://www.hotliterati.com/coursesShop Hot Literati Merch https://www.hotliterati.com/category/all-productsFollow hailo https://linktr.ee/haileycolborn#literature #tonimorrison #sula #books #bookclub #literaryanalysis
May 8 · 17 min
107. The Entropy of Beauty
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 chaos theory, Ilya Prigogine's Nobel Prize-winning work on dissipative structures — and what all of it has to say about what it means to be organized, alive, and beautiful inside a universe that is structurally committed to falling apart.No metaphors used as shortcuts. The science is real. The conclusion follows from it.Mentioned in this episode: Ludwig Boltzmann, Rudolf Clausius, Edward Lorenz, Ilya Prigogine, Henri BergsonRead more at hotliterati.comJoin Hot Literati Academy: hotliterati.com
May 1 · 17 min
106. Stop Competing and Start Cheering People On
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
April 26 · 12 min
105. How to Stop Dating People who Suck
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
April 16 · 16 min
104. What Your Commute Did to Your Ambition
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 scarcity, and the tall poppy syndrome that punishes anyone who stands out in a small town. Then we go somewhere unexpected — the neuroscience of walkable cities, and what car-dependent environments actually do to your brain, your mood, and your sense of what's possible.Some people say move to the city. Jane Jacobs says don't destroy what you leave behind. Amsterdam proved that when you redesign the infrastructure, you redesign the people. And Hot Literati exists because sometimes you have to build the conditions for a bigger life yourself.This one is for anyone who grew up somewhere that told them — quietly, persistently, lovingly — to be a little less.

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