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• Books
• Blogs
• Movies
• Podcasts

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Books 📚

Top 5 Picks

• The Dream Machine (M. Mitchell Waldrop) cs
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering (Richard W. Hamming) cs
• From Third World to First World (Lee Kwan Yew) history politics
• Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov) fiction
• The Three Body Problem (Cixin Liu) sci-fi

Other Favourites

• Something Like an Autobiography (Akira Kurosawa) art
• Making Movies (Sidney Lumet) art
• Travels (Michael Crichton) art
• Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang) sci-fi
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) sci-fi
• Permutation City (Greg Egan) sci-fi
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress sci-fi
• Fiasco (Stanisław Lem) sci-fi
• Ready Player One (Ernest Cline) sci-fi
• Failure Is Not an Option (Gene Kranz) space
• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Chris Hadfield) space
• Surely You are Joking, Mr Feynman! (Richard Feynman) physics
• Antarctica (Gabrielle Walker) science
• The New City (Dickson Despommier) climate
• Annals of the Former World (John McPhee) geology
• Hackers and Painters (Paul Graham) cs
• Skunk Works (Ben Rich) engineering
• Not Much of an Engineer (Stanley Hooker) engineering
• Men of Mathematics (Eric Temple Bell) history
• Founders at Work (Jessica Livingston) history business
• Poor Charlie's Almanack (Charles Munger) business
• Shoe Dog (Phil Knight) business
• High Growth Handbook (Elad Gil) business
• High Output Management (Andrew Grove) business
• Development as Freedom (Amartya Sen) economics
• The Origins of Political Order (Francis Fukuyama) history politics
• World Order (Henry Kissinger) history politics
• Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano) history
• Energy and Civilization: A History (Vaclav Smil) history
• Arabs: A History (Eugene Rogan) history
• From Babylon to Timbuktu (Rudolph Windsor) history
• Shake Hands with the Devil (Romeo Dallaire) history
• Mating in Captivity (Esther Perel) psychology
• Essays (George Orwell) history literature
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Eliezer Yudkowsky) fiction
• The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) fiction
• Disgrace (John Maxwell Coetzee) fiction
• Family Matters (Rohinton Mistry) fiction
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan) fiction
• The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen) fiction

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Blogs & Newsletters 🖋️

• Small Things Considered bio
• Laura Deming bio
• Andrej Karpathy cs
• Aman.ai cs
• AlphaSignal cs
• Daniel Lemire cs
• Daniel Na cs
• Cryptography Dispatches cs
• Cryptography Engineering cs
• Irrational Exuberance cs
• Pete Warden cs
• Quanta Magazine science
• FreakTakes business science
• Marc Andreessen business
• Paul English business
• Paul Graham business
• Kevin Kelly business
• Naval Ravikant business
• Joel Spolsky business
• Sam Altman business
• Stratechery business
• Bits About Money finance
• Julian Shapiro fitness
• Pirate Wires politics
• Palladium Magazine politics
• The New Criterion art politics
• Aeon art philosophy
• Farnam Street rationality
• LessWrong rationality
• Astral Codex Ten rationality

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Movies & TV Shows 🎥

• Past Lives (2023) drama
• History of Africa from the 16th to the 20th Century (2022) history
• The Power of the Dog (2021) drama
• Marriage Story (2019) drama romance
• Sound of Metal (2019) drama
• Formation of Malaysia (2017) documentary history
• Abstract: The Art of Design (2017) design documentary
• Minimalism (2015) documentary
• Mustang (2015) drama
• The Salt of the Earth (2014) documentary
• Whiplash (2014) drama music
• Wild Tales (2014) comedy
• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013) food travel
• The Act of Killing (2012) documentary
• Sri Lanka's Killing Fields (2011) documentary war
• Dear Zachary (2008) documentary
• The Lives of Others (2006) drama
• The Prestige (2006) drama mystery
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) romance sci-fi
• Swades (2004) drama
• Memories of Murder (2003) crime thriller
• The Fog of War (2003) documentary war
• Catch Me If You Can (2002) comedy drama
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) comedy drama
• In the Mood for Love (2000) drama
• The West Wing (1997) political drama
• Life Is Beautiful (1997) comedy romance war
• Perfect Blue (1997) anime psychological thriller
  ⮡ Everything by Satoshi Kon is extraordinary.
• Fargo (1996) comedy crime drama
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) animated drama
• Trainspotting (1996) comedy drama
• Farewell My Concubine (1993) history drama
• Baraka (1992) documentary
• The Civil War (1990) documentary
• Close-Up (1990) crime drama
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988) anime war
• Shoah (1985) documentary
• Amadeus (1984) drama
• Sans Soleil (1983) documentary
• Blade Runner (1982) sci-fi
• Apocalypse Now (1979) war
• Stalker (1979) sci-fi
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) drama
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) sci-fi
• Tokyo Olympiad (1965) documentary
• Up (1964–2019) documentary
• High and Low (1963) crime drama
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) war
• The Red Shoes (1948) drama
• Man with a Movie Camera (1929) documentary

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Podcasts & YouTube 🎙️

• This Week in Virology / Microbiology / Evolution / Neuroscience bio
• Urban Agriculture bio
• WeMartians Podcast space
• Dr. Becky space
• My Favorite Theorem maths
• The Joy of X maths
• 3Blue1Brown maths
• Steve Brunton engineering
• Practical Engineering engineering
• Machine Learning Street Talk cs
• Computerphile cs
• Lex Fridman Podcast cs history politics
• The China in Global South Podcast politics
• Dan Carlin's Hardcore History history
• Revolutions by Mike Duncan history
• The History Guy history
• BBC In Our Time history literature
• The Rachman Review politics
• Tim Ferris Show business
• Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders business
• Business Breakdowns business

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