Podcasts
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pod save the world
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Pivot (tech podcast)
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The program (Caden)
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Dungeon crawler Carl
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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