Favorite media
Favorites in bold.
Nonfiction:
Tier 0 (Must Read):
- The Sequences
- Burn Math Class
- Basic Economics (by Thomas Sowell)
- How To Make Friends And Influence People
- Man’s Search For Meaning
- Lying For Money by Dan Davies
- Amusing Ourselves To Death
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Burglar’s Guide To The City
Everything Else:
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- cpu.land
- The Case Against Education
- Elephant In The Brain
- Games Primates Play
- On Killing
- The Guns Of August
- Finite and Infinite Games
- How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
- The Hacker And The State
- Ordinary Men
- Freakonomics
- Hamilton (by Rob Chernow)
- Elon Musk (by Ashlee Vance)
- Zero To One
- Superintelligence
Fiction:
Tier 0 (Must Read):
- Ender’s Game
- Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality
- There Is No Antimemetics Division
- The Martian
Everything Else:
- Scott Pilgrim
- Fight Club
- Death Note
- Starship Troopers
- The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
- The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
- This Is How It Always Is
- Seveneves
Movies:
- Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
- La La Land
- Whiplash
- Across/Into The Spiderverse
- It’s A Wonderful Life
- Juno
- Memento
Essays:
- Solvability, by David Sirlin
- Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy, by Gwern
- https://www.gwern.net/Unseeing
- The Optimal Amount Of Fraud Is Non-Zero, by Patrick Mackenzie
- The Story Of VaccinateCA, by Patrick Mackenzie
- How a small group of techies accidentally ended up running a major part of the United State’s vaccine infrastructure. Half reflection on how the government catastrophically dropped the ball, half analysis of what VaccinateCA did and why it worked. Watch his talk at Manifest for more details.
- https://kwokchain.com/2020/01/23/underutilized-fixed-assets/
- What Colour are your bits?
- How the Magic The Gathering color wheel explains humanity, by Duncan Sabien
- A little bit about Celeste’s Synths, by Lena Raine
Music:
- OK Computer
- Pinkerton
- The Blue Album
- Rumors
- Nevermind
- Abbey Road
- Trench
- Neotheater
- In Rainbows
- The Bug Collector
- Hamilton
- The Dark Side Of The Moon
- How To Be A Human Being
- Blurryface
- Currents
- The Slow Rush
- Nonagon Infinity
- GUTS
- all 1,951 of my liked songs on Spotify
TV:
- The Wire
- Gravity Falls
- The Good Place
Games:
- Enter The Gungeon
- ULTRAKILL
- Factorio
- Outer Wilds
- Breath Of The Wild
- Tears Of The Kingdom
- BattleBit Remastered
- Hollow Knight
- TowerFall
- Celeste
- Inscryption
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Prey
- Slay The Spire
- Titanfall 2
- Hades
- Deep Rock Galactic
- ROUNDS
Websites:
TODO: organize this list, like, at all
- xkcd.com
- bitsaboutmoney.com
- astralcodexten.substack.com (and his old blog, slatestarcodex.com)
- paulgraham.com
- diveintopython3.net
- LessWrong.com
- thezvi.substack.com
- kalzumeus.com
- hpmor.com
- https://acesounderglass.com/
- twitter.com/visakanav
- ncase.me
- SPARC.camp
- atlasfellowship.org
- chat.OpenAI.com
- meltingasphalt.com
- danluu.com
- manifold.markets
- tvtropes.org
YouTube (very incomplete, needs links):
- Funke
- AsumSaus
- Why Button Mashing Doesn’t Work
- Is Melee A Good Game?
TODO: Add intro, add links/authors, add sentence-long blurbs about why these things are good/why I like them, finish adding books, probably spin that off into a longer page of just book reviews (itself split between fiction and nonfiction), add images of the covers for each movie/book/show, add other TV, finish adding movies, add blogs/blog posts, add some form of spotify link/add a playlist with the individual songs/add more individual songs to this list. Potentially add Nutshell functionality