Some of my favorite media, products, and resources.

Books

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Endurance
• How Buildings Learn
• Lonesome Dove
• Poor Charlie's Almanack
• Red Rising (series)
• Sapiens
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Dream Machine
• The Hobbit (narrated by Andy Serkis)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Selfish Gene

Podcasts

• Acquired
• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
• Dwarkesh Podcast
• Fall of Civilizations Podcast
• Lex Fridman Podcast
• Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
• Modern Wisdom
• The History of Rome
• The Rest is Politics

Youtubers

• Alt Shift X
• Andrej Karpathy
• Coffeezilla
• Fredrik Knudsen
• Gary's Economics
• Historia Civilis
• Perun
• Settled
• Then & Now

Courses

• CMU 15-445: Intro to Database Systems (by Andy Pavlo)
• MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems (by Robert Morris)
• nand2tetris (by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken)
• Wealth & Poverty (by Robert Reich)

Talks

• Simple Made Easy (Rich Hickey)
• The Craft of Writing Effectively (Larry McEnerney)
• You and Your Research (Richard Hamming)

Writers/Bloggers

• Benn Stancil
• Henrik Karlsson
• Matt Levine
• Molly White
• Paul Graham
• Simon Sarris

Products (I like enough to pay for)

• Claude (LLM)
• Cursor (IDE)
• Spotify (Music)
• The Economist (News)
• Waking Up (Meditation)

Movies

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Django Unchained
• Dr. Strangelove
• Gladiator
• In the Mood for Love
• Midsommar

TV Shows

• Better Call Saul
• Game of Thrones
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Peep Show
• Severance
• True Detective (season one)

Albums

• AM
• Comedown Machine
• Demon Days
• Discovery
• London Calling
• Nevermind
• Skinty Fia
• Swimming