Favourite Media

Inspired by Luke Meulhlhauser’s quarterly updates on his favourite media (music, movies/TV and books), here is a small selection of my favourite things to watch, read or listen to.

Music

Albums

The links aren’t to the album as a whole but to a good part of each album.

Movies/TV

Movies

• Catch Me If You Can
• Whiplash
• Full Metal Jacket
• Snatch
• A Beautiful Mind
• Vice
• Chef
• The Social Network
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

TV

• Breaking Bad
• The IT Crowd
• Outnumbered
• Black Mirror
• Fresh Meat
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

Books

These are kept in [[Bookshelf]]^N.

Blogs

• Minding our Way, personal blog of Nate Soares who has written a lot about rationality and motivation, I really enjoyed his series [[Replacing Guilt, Soares]]^N:
  • [[Half-assing it with everything you’ve got]]^N
  • [[The value of a life]]^N
• Astral Codex Ten (formerly Slate Star Codex), personal blog of Scott Alexander
  • [[Meditations on Moloch, Alexander]]^N
  • “Who by very slow decay”
• Derek Sivers
  • [[How To Live, Sivers]]^N
• Gwern Branwen
  • “Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning”
  • “Epigrams”
• Andy Matuschak,
  • “Work with the garage door up”
  • “How can we develop transformative tools for thought?”
• Charlie Britton, my brother
  • “The Case for a Local Smart Home”
  • “Building an Offsite Backup NAS”

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This page was last fully updated 2024-12-01.