Happy 2026!
Some reflections on 2025 and plans for 2026
2025 Reflections
Happy New Year!
I hope you’re feeling refreshed and positive and ready for another year of our ongoing civilisational collapse.
In 2025, we crossed some pretty cool milestones on YouTube:
1403 new subscribers ✅
200,000 views on the channel ✅
13,181 watch hours ✅
1 million impressions ✅
The most watched podcast of 2025 was with Fr Conor Mcdonagh:
The second most popular interview was with Mr Jordan Hall:
In total, we published:
16 Podcast interviews and 11 Essays
The first six parts of the Plato’s Republic lecture series (the rest will be complete in the first half of 2026)
And I featured on several other podcasts discussing topics from the meaning crisis to Plato and Catholicism in Ireland (Breaking Bread Catholic, Legion of Mary, Beyond the Fundamentals, SenseSpace Hub & The Logos Project)
What’s the plan for 2026?
Firstly… If you are in Dublin, or Ireland, you gotta come to the second Bridging the Gap course.
It was a huge milestone in 2025 to launch the first Bridging the Gap course in Dublin, which aimed at getting participants beyond the meaning crisis.
The course brought together everything I’ve learnt over the last ten years of grappling with the meaning crisis and returning to a viable path of transcendence, and the feedback from participants who undertook the course was overwhelmingly positive.
There’s still a long way to go on this project, the rest of my life, I imagine, but a win is a win, and getting these ideas in front of a live audience was cathartic.
If you are based in Ireland, more particularly Dublin, and would like to attend the second course, then sign up below 👇
In 2026 you can look forward to:
Lectures 7-10 of the Plato’s Republic course
The Second Bridging the Gap course in person and then potentially a Zoom option towards the end of the year for the online bro’s
More podcasts and essays (of course), particularly focusing on the return of the sacred in the context of the AI and Internet age
I also have to finish my PhD and get married, so there may be some lags in the content creation, but please understand, I’m only human?