Things I recommend
Here you find some of my favorite things. The following list is NOT comprehensive by any means. It’s more like a random selection of stuff I liked, and I believe you might also enjoy. I hope you discover something here that you also find interesting.
Fiction Books:
- Search History (by Eugene Lim)
- Fight Night (by Miriam Toews)
- Station Eleven (by Emily St. John Mandel)
- Never Let Me Go (by Kazuo Ishiguro)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (by Junot Díaz)
- A Visit from the Goon Squad (by Jennifer Egan)
- Journey by Moonlight (by Antal Szerb)
- Ketchup (by Sławomir Mrożek)
- Intersection (by Paul Guimard)
Non-fiction Books:
- The Pragmatic Programmer (by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas)
- Superintelligence (by Nick Bostrom)
- Steve Jobs (by Walter Isaacson)
- The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann (by Ananyo Bhattacharya)
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (by Stephen King)
- The Psychology of Money (by Morgan Housel)
- The Lean Startup (by Eric Ries)
- The Personal MBA (by Josh Kaufman)
- Anything You Want (by Derek Sivers)
- A Moveable Feast (by Ernest Hemingway)
Movies:
- Being John Malkovich (1999 - American Comedy/Fantasy)
- The Lives of Others (2006 - German Drama/Thriller)
- Il Postino (1994 - Italian Romance/Drama)
- Pain and Glory (2019 - Spanish Drama)
- Moonlight (2016 - American Drama)
- The Firemen’s Ball (1967 - Czech Comedy/Drama)
- Wild Tales (2014 - Argentinian Comedy/Thriller)
- Good Bye Lenin! (2003 - German Drama/Comedy)
- Do the Right Thing (1989 - American Drama/Comedy)
- In the Soup (1992 - American Comedy)
- Macadam Stories (2015 - French Comedy/Drama)
- Smoke (1995 - American Drama)
- Back to the Future (1985 - American Sci-fi/Comedy)
- The Wife (2017 - Swedish-American Drama)
Documentaries:
- Paraíso (2021 - Portuguese-French-Brazilian Documentary)
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929 - Soviet Documentary)
- Igor Levit - No Fear (2023 - German Documentary)
- I Am Not Your Negro (2016 - American Documentary)
- George Condo: The Way I Think (2017 - Danish Documentary)
- Paul Auster, what if? (2021 - American Documentary)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017 - American-Japanese Documentary)
Articles:
- The importance of stupidity in scientific research (Journal of Cell Science)
- Walking, friendship and tiramisu: Genoa’s centenarians share secrets of longevity (The Guardian)
- Things You Learn Dating Cate Hall (Sasha’s ‘Newsletter’)
- There’s no speed limit (Derek Sivers)
- 10 Types of Odd Friendships You’re Probably Part Of (Wait But Why)
- Don’t specialize, hybridize (Steph Ango)
- Walking as a Productivity System (Every / Superorganizers)
- Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives (The Marginalian)
Podcasts:
- In Machines we trust
- How I Built This
- The long and the short of it
- Beautiful anonymous
- Reply All
- Modern love
- My first million
- Ctrl Alt Delete
- Radiolab
- 99% Invisible
- Writing Excuses
Youtube Channels:
- Traversy Media (Dev)
- sentdex (Dev)
- Be A Better Dev (Dev)
- AWS Developers (Dev)
- PedroTech (Dev)
- Greg Kamradt (AI, Dev)
- Dave Ebbelaar (AI, Dev)
- HPC Tech Shorts (Computing)
- Two Minute Papers (Science, AI)
- Singularity Weblog (Futurism, AI, Philosophy)
- MIT Media Lab (Tech, Innovation)
- MIT Technology Review (Tech, Future Trends)
- The James Kalm Report (Art)
- Louisiana Channel (Art)
- KEXP (Music)
- ARTE Concert (Music)
- BBC Music (Music)
- Samuel and Audrey (Food, Traveling)
- Leave Everything and Wander (Traveling, Life)
- Life Where I’m From (Traveling, Life)
- Kirsten Dirksen (Homes, Simple Living)
- Flo Lum (Cooking)
- Italia Squisita (Cooking)
- Marion’s Kitchen (Cooking)
- Pasta Grannies (Cooking)
- Jauja Cocina Mexicana (Cooking)