S2. Chapter 20: What Rules Are You Obeying for Free?
Lloyd Dobler riffs on Tao Te Ching Chapter 20 in a dry, anti-guru meditation on late-stage compliance—asking: what rules are you obeying for free?
S2. Chapter 19: Who’s Stealing Your Time?
A Tao Te Ching–inspired meditation on overwork, capitalism, and reclaiming time. Spiritual and political commentary from Gen X everyman Lloyd Dobler.
S2. Chapter 15: Do You Have the Patience to Wait Till Your Mud Settles and the Water Is Clear?
Lloyd Dobler explores identity, origin, and clarity in a chaotic America through Chapter 15 of the Tao Te Ching. Satire meets meditation in Trumplandia.
S2. Chapter 14: The Future Keeps Ghosting Us
Lloyd Dobler delivers a ‘sorta-guided meditation’ on the future ghosting us, and why the unread message might be the message.
S2. Chapter 13: The Slow-Drip Seepage of Fascism
Lloyd Dobler tackles tragedy, fear, and America’s slow-drip slide toward fascism through Tao Te Ching Chapter 13 in this darkly comedic meditation.
S2. Chapter 12: The Trojan Horse at OpenAI
Lloyd Dobler reflects on the Tao Te Ching through AI acceleration, sensory overwhelm, and the search for clarity in a noisy, late-stage world..
S2. Chapter 10: I Gave Her My Heart. She Gave Me a Pen. Can I Write My Way Home?
Lloyd Dobler sits with one of the most personal moments of his past: a letter from Diane Court, written in 2011 and rediscovered in a box labeled IMPORTANT. What begins as a relic from an old life becomes a catalyst for self-recognition, softening, and stumbling toward the version of himself he thought he’d lost.
S2. Chapter 2: Solving for X in the Algorithm of Empire
Chapter 2 of The Tao of Lloyd explores wu wei, algorithmic pressure, and the Tao Te Ching’s guidance on letting go inside a system built on impulse and control.
S2. Chapter 1: The Tao That Can Be Podcasted Is Not the Eternal Tao
In Chapter 1, Lloyd reads the opening lines of the Tao Te Ching and immediately breaks the first rule: he podcasts the un-podcastable. With Gen X humor, spiritual irreverence, and political clarity, Lloyd explores desire, distraction, and what it means to sit still inside a democracy mid-autopsy.