Hi. I’m Tim Urban.

Somehow, you found this site.

I don’t link to it from anywhere.

This means you cared enough to search for me online or even type in TimUrban.com into your browser.

Wow. That’s great. Welcome.

I don’t know why exactly you’re here. But here’s my official bio:

Tim Urban is the writer/illustrator and co-founder of Wait But Why, a long-form, stick-figure-illustrated website with over 600,000 subscribers and a monthly average of half a million visitors. He has produced dozens of viral articles on a wide range of topics, from artificial intelligence to social anxiety to humans becoming a multi-planetary species. Tim’s 2016 TED main stage talk was the first TED video to ever reach 10 million views in its first year and now ranks in the top ten most-watched TED talks.

In 2023, I released a book that I’m proud of.

The book is called What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies. It introduces a new framework for thinking about our chaotic political environment.

I spend most of my time writing on the Wait But Why website. You should go there now.

You can contact me at this email address: tim[at]waitbutwhy.com

I’m also active on X / Twitter.