A list of my favorite things.

Last updated May 2021

Books

Check out my 2021 reading list

• The Untethered Soul - Michael Alan Singer
• Mindset - Carol Dweck
• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harrari
• The Little Prince - Anthony de Saint-Exupery
• The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

Podcasts and Videos

• How to get rich without getting lucky - Naval Ravikant
  
• Blueprint for Armageddon - Hardcore History
• Cosmos: A Personal Voyage - Carl Sagan
• This is Water - David Foster Wallace
• Ocean Vuong: A Life Worthy of Our Breath - On Being Podcast

Essays and Articles

• Self Reliance - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Age of the Essay - Paul Graham
• Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming - Neil Gaiman
• Don’t Eat Before Reading This - Anthony Bourdain
• What I Believe - Albert Einstein
• The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce - Tom Wolfe
• You and Your Research - Richard Hamming

Short Stories

• The Egg - Andy Weir
• The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
• Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang
• The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu

Blog Posts

• Thirty five+ years of projects - Seth Godin
• Travel is No Cure for the Mind - More to That
• How I Got Rich on the Other Hand - Derek Sivers
• Talker’s Block - Seth Godin
• The Story of Us - Tim Urban
• 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings - Maria Popova
• Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work - Alex Danco