Here’s some content from 2019 that I found noteworthy and enjoyed feeding my mind with. Perhaps some will resonate with you as well.
Books
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- The Mind Illuminated
- Why Buddhism is True
- Becoming
- Culture Code
- Factfulness
- Refactoring UI
- The Brain: The Story of You
- The Story of Your Life and Others
- The Exhalation: Stories
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Music
- Mostly my favorite electronic and sometimes jazz music for focus on Spotify
- Top played: Tycho, Blackmill, Jon Hopkins, Odesza, Phaeleh, Chopin, Bach, Jimmy Smith, Aphex Twin, Grant Green, Bonobo, Brian Eno, Bill Evans, Youandewan
- New discoveries: East Forest, Tourist, Monolink, Jan Blomqvist, Jonas Saalbach, Laraaji, and Khruangbin
Documentaries and Movies
- The Mind Explained by Vox on Netflix
- General Magic
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- One Strange Rock
- Green Book
Podcasts
- This Week In Startups
- How I Built This
- Rhonda Patrick’s Foundmyfitness
- Selectively: Making Sense, Peter Attia’s Drive, Tim Ferriss, Startup Straight Talk by Atrium, YC, a16z, Below the Line