My Favourites of 2019
In 2019, I chose to spend more time exploring interesting content and expanding the breadth of mediums I consumed. I was rewarded not only by what I learned, but also by how these pieces changed the way I think.
The lists below are my favourites from the past year. While alphabetically ordered by title, the asterisks denote the content I thought particularly outstanding.
Enjoy!
Books:
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- How Asia Works by Joe Studwell**
- Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World by Michele Gelfand**
- The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand**
Blogs:
- Beware the Man of One Study by Scott Alexander
- Climate Change and the 75% Problem by Bill Gates
- Common Plots of Economic History by Morgan Housel
- Different Kinds of Smart by Morgan Housel
- Different Kinds of Stupid by Morgan Housel
- Five Lessons from History by Morgan Housel
- Going Critical by Melting Asphalt**
- How This All Happened by Morgan Housel**
- How To Be Successful by Sam Altman
- Not Caring: A Unique and Powerful Skill by Morgan Housel
- Paradigm Shifts by Ray Dalio
- What I Learned from Daniel Kahneman by Jason Zweig
- The Coolest Things I learned in 2018 by David Perell**
- The Shadow Side of Greatness by James Clear
- The Story of US by Tim Urban**
- The Work Required to Have an Opinion by Farnam Street
- Why and How Capitalism Needs to be Reformed by Ray Dalio
Podcasts
- Becoming the Best Version of You by The Tim Ferriss Show
- Joe Rogan Experience #1309 - Naval Ravikant
- Supernova in The East by Dan Carlin**
Movies and Documentaries
- Citizen Kane by Orson Welles
- Coco by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina (Pixar)
- Drive to Survive (Netflix)
- Icarus by Bryan Fogel**
- Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond by Chris Smith (Netflix)
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? by Morgan Neville (Focus Features)
The YouTube and Social Media
- Art is Dead by Bo Burnham
- Can't Handle This Right Now by Bo Burnham**
- Cool Demonstration of Owl Flying Precision by Digg
- How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky by Naval Ravikant**
- Infant Mortality in Africa Since 1950 by Our World in Data
- Pendulum dance by Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations
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