Favorites
Books, podcasts, movies, shows, and more — things I keep coming back to. A small map of what I've found worth recommending.
Books 7
Books that shaped how I think.
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Triggers — Marshall GoldsmithOn the behavioral triggers that shape who we become — and how to take control of them.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas AdamsThe funniest book about nothing mattering and everything being interesting.
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Siddhartha — Hermann HesseA short novel about searching for meaning. Re-read it every few years.
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Atomic Habits — James ClearSmall changes, compounded. The most practical book on behavior I’ve read.
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The Psychology of Money — Morgan HouselNot about money — about how humans think. One of the clearest books I’ve read.
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Meditations — Marcus AureliusThe original journal of someone trying to be a better human, in public.
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Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
Podcasts 2
- Lex Fridman Podcast — Lex Fridman
Long, curious conversations with scientists, thinkers, and builders.
- Hidden Brain — Shankar Vedantam
Psychology and behavioral science made genuinely gripping.
Essays 1
Pieces I keep coming back to.
- Do Things That Don’t Scale — Paul Graham
Tools 3
Software I rely on.
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This site runs on it.
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Hosts every image you see here.
Movies 6
Films that have stayed with me.
Shows 4
TV that earned its hours.
Anime 5
Stories that hit hardest in animated form.
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This one sits very close to my heart. Pantheon takes the question I've been chewing on for years — what makes you, you? — and answers it with the seriousness it deserves. It treats consciousness, grief, family, and identity as engineering problems and as spiritual ones at the same time, without flinching from either. The final stretch is one of the most ambitious things I've seen on a screen: it scales from a single father-daughter conversation to the fate of the universe, and somehow earns every step. I don't know another show that takes ideas this big and stays this human.
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