My top recommendations

I have done a tremendous amount of reading, watching, and listening over the years. This page curates the best of the best. When people ask “What would you recommend?”, these are the things that jump to the top. They are listed in no particular order.

Public Thinkers

• David Perell
• Naval Ravikant
• Julian Shapiro

Articles

• Meditations on Moloch
• The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to ‘The Office’

Books, Fiction

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Books, Non-Fiction

• Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Risk by Dan Gardner
• The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• Rework by Jason Freid & DHH

Books, Technical

• Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz
• The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
• Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans

Talks

• Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business by Jason Cohen
• This is Water by David Foster Wallace
• Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey

TV Shows

• The Wire
• True Detective
• Fleabag
• Breaking Bad

Movies

• Parasite (2019)
• Oldboy (2003)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
• John Wick (2014)
• Soul (2020)
• Spirited Away (2001)
• Midsommar (2019)