Podcasts

  • pod save the world

  • Pivot (tech podcast)

  • The program (Caden)

  • Dungeon crawler Carl

  • Cult of Grug Chesterton’s Fence GK Chesterton Jorge Luis Borges (I have no idea why I wrote this but John Michael recently recommended Borges so I think it makes sense)

BOOKS / FICTION

  • Blindsight by Peter Watts (talking with Elliot about this)
  • Heart of Darkness
  • Endurance by Edward Shackleton (Charlie rec to me and Elliot)
  • Operation Hail Mary
  • House or the new sun
  • demon copperhead (Noah Highly highly recommends)
  • One thousand and one nights
  • 1000 days of solitude
  • The supernaturalist (sci fo about organ killing invisible pain sucking creatures???)
  • Longing for lofi
  • my brilliant friend elena ferrante (Alexandra Daddario’s character in white lotus was reading it)
  • The Lexus and the olive tree
  • Adrien tarchovsky the children of time (Caden, JM)
  • dungeon crawler carl
  • The secret history
  • Brian Sanderson - the stormlight archive
  • Xx by Rian Hughes (jm rec about alien species message, 3D printing)
  • Snowcrash (Noah)
  • Robot and monk (Div)
  • neuromancer
  • A thousand splendid suns
  • come Sunday
  • The great divorce
  • The screw tape letters
  • blue highways
  • How to ignore 4.5 million deaths
  • The Secret History
  • ridley walker
  • Interview with a vampire
  • Roxanne Gaye short stories (Sabrina)
  • Dreams in a time of war (Matt)
  • A path appears by Nicholas Kristofferson
  • Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  • Seymour Hirsch - reporter (Shane rec)
  • Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman)
  • Another fine mess Helen Epstein (Steph)
  • Factfulness, Hans Rossling (Steph)
  • Girl on a train
  • gone girl
  • Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture
  • Jacksonians
  • Oliver Sachs: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • Elements of Journalism
  • Bhagavad Gita
  • The Prince, Machiavelli
  • The Unbearable Lightness
  • Dr. Zhivago (eloise shultz)
  • The secret history by Donna Tartt
  • the people in the Trees by Hanya Yanigihara
  • Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture
  • An unquiet mind (Kelsie was reading it)
  • The garden of forking paths
  • Raymond Carver
  • Richmond Ford
  • Atomic Habits

Shortlist of books I may never read but come up over and over again

  • Thinking fast and slow
  • Gogel escher bach

BOOKS / NONFICTION

  • Mr. G as told by god, a story by Alan Lightman, an MIT professor - I think Ingrid recommended it?
  • Printing and the minds of man (Brian Eno on Ezra Klein)
  • a pattern language by Kristopher Alexander (also Brian eno on Ezra Klein)
  • Naples 44 by Norman Lewis (also Brian eno Ezra Klein - the most fabulous diary you’ll ever read)
  • Subscription to the London review of books, for anyone interested in books, is nice
  • Midnight’s children by Salman Rushdie
  • Money: The True story of a made up thing
  • Search party
  • Postal
  • 1001 Arabian nights
  • The Decameron
  • The Canterbury tales
  • this is happiness by niall williams (I’m in the last 20 pages of a book mom gave me; “This is Happiness” by Niall Williams; very Irish, very lyrical, and as I approach the end I am realizing how crafty it is) - Dad
  • Just enough research by Erica Hall (Reed recommendation) married to mike montaro
  • The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison (scott porter)
  • Trick mirror
  • China mieville’s Perdido street station, eEmbassy Twn, (recommended by John Michael AND by MIT AGI guide) (But in the end John Michael said it was too violent I think)
  • Stanislaw lem’s “fiasco” and “Solaris” (MIT’s AGI book)
  • The hidden glove: how wealth hacks the world
  • Plato’s Republic
  • mythos
  • A computer scientist’s dream for designing houses
  • A truckload of money (Dad recommended it, programming, what to do with a ton of money, etc)
  • Platform delusion by Kee (Charlie read it and talked about it a ton)
  • filterworld (Noah rec, started it and it was pretty cool - intro about the mechanical turk)
  • Tribal leadership (John Michael Bloomquist recommended it and said it was very influential to him)
  • Edward tuft
  • Subtle art of not giving a fuck (Jenna, Griffin)
  • Sperm wars
  • Neil postman; amusing ourselves to death
  • The art of peace (akeido)
  • Ministry for the future
  • When breath becomes air
  • St. marks is dead
  • Braiding sweet grass
  • Braiding sweet grass
  • The design of everyday things (Clint recommended after cult of Grug talk)
  • Understanding power
  • Syntactic structures, Chomsky
  • The gospel of inclusion
  • I love Russia: reporting from a lost country
  • Submersion (Jonathon Ledgard)
  • The Garden of forking paths - Jorge Luis Borges (in Stephen vitiello’s sound piece)
  • Into thin air
  • Fast and slow
  • Give and Take
  • Bad Feminist
  • Talking to strangers (Malcolm Gladwell)
  • The lean startup methodology
  • The living (rec by mom and dad
  • A biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

MOVIES

  • My octopus teacher (who recomemnded this?? They did so emphatically)
  • Pig
  • bad sport documntary about randy laneer (Ann’s ex’es old boss the weed dealer nascar driver)
  • Paddington 2
  • The Holdovers
  • Bernie 2011
  • Sword of Truth (Marc Maron’s former lover, recommended by Beth for some reason)
  • Nomad Land
  • anora
  • Million dollar baby (Yoni mentioned it in reference to a footbal player who was a cross between Rico and Harrison ford in million dollar baby)0
  • Dodgeball
  • Just dance? I think this was recommended by…
  • pig
  • Marcel the shell the movie
  • Erlang ( The movie)
  • Barbie movie
  • Your inner fish (John Mokry from RC)
  • You’ve got mail / sleepless in Seattle, Meg Ryan with the fuckass bob, talking with Shane and Eva about coincidence and ghosts and the woman in budapest
  • After yang (2021) (nolen royalty / played at RC hub)
  • 1000 days of solitude the show or movie, recent to 2024! Looks really beautiful
  • civil war (I think dad saw it?? Looks really really good, about a journalist covering the partisan implision of the united states)
  • Salt burn (rucked up, Noah)
  • Coming to America
  • The lives of others (mark blackdon)
  • Fantastic planet ()
  • The expanse
  • Divergent
  • American Society of Magical Negroes (mom and dad)
  • Line of sight
  • Solaris
  • Crocodile Dundee
  • Sita sings the blues (on canopy)
  • Flight of the navigator
  • Snowcrash
  • War Games
  • Hackers
  • Deliverance
  • moving still
  • past lives
  • the unbearable weight of immense talent
  • Century of the Self (rec by Data Self professor about Henry Bernays, all sorts of cool stuff)
  • The Ides of March
  • Margin call
  • Spotlight
  • no man’s land
  • bad sports
  • point break
  • light
  • K2
  • The Eiger sanction
  • wizard people dear reader
  • Tenant
  • vikram
  • Hampstead
  • The man who knew infinity
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • Bombshell
  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  • Saloum
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • vengeance
  • Argo
  • Black Kkklansmen
  • Edge of Democracy
  • Key and Peele Lyka Studios Movie
  • Three Identical Strangers
  • Plastic Wars
  • Point and Shoot
  • Rumspringa
  • Tangled
  • The Producers
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • A Yak in the Classroom
  • 8th grade
  • Trinsters
  • Last Chance U
  • Black Kkklansmen
  • Hollywood Cop
  • Snowpiercer
  • Midsommars
  • Honeyland
  • Atlantics
  • The Souvenir
  • Marriage Story
  • The Alpinest
  • Valley Uprising
  • Elvis Movie
  • Life of a King
  • Samsara
  • the gods must be crazy
  • The Banshees of Inishrin
  • Chinatown (Libby Kent)

TV Shows

  • Coming to america
  • Mr. and mrs. smith with Maya Erskine and Donald Glover
  • Veep
  • A crowded room (tom holland - Daniel Baucke watched it, looks incredible)
  • The dicamaron
  • The dicamaron
  • Accident (78-79, mark blackdon)
  • Cobra (Brit box) mark blackdon
  • A very secret service (mom)
  • the sopranos
  • White lotus
  • The seven lives of Lea
  • The expanse
  • Call your agent
  • Chernobyl
  • Succession
  • Shokugeki no soma
  • The Power
  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Watchmen
  • Barry
  • Severance
  • The Man in the High Castle
  • the bear

MUSIC

  • Jackson Brown the road
  • Ray Sun
  • The rural folk blues (Brian eno)

Read/Watched/Loved etc.

  • Pantheon - animated TV show on netflix about the rise of AI as gods

Articles

Games

  • Everything