(last updated: 07.02.2024)

• ⭐ = recommend
• 💩 = this sucks
• = complete

July 2024

• 📖📻 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline ⭐⭐⭐star: one of my favorite books, especially of short stories, of all time. Audiobook also read by author and has fantastic author’s note at the end.

June 2024

• 📖📻 Pastoralia (George Saunders, 2000) ⭐⭐⭐ What a great book and audiobook (author reads it). The omnicient narrator gives such interesting insights into the hilarious, quirky, tragic heads of these characters.
• 🎬 Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014) ⭐⭐
• 📖📻 Animal Farm (Orwell, 1945) ⭐

May 2024

April 2024

• 📖📻 The Anxious Generation
• 📖 [technical analysis book]

March 2024

• 📖📻 Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) Meh.
• 📖 The Queen of Dirt Island (Donal Ryan, 2022) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

February 2024

• 📖 Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (Martin Amis, 2003)⭐⭐⭐ Devastating, but very well researched and written.
• 📖 Programming Bitcoin (Song, 2019)
• 📖📻 Fellow Travelers (Thomas Mallon) ⭐

January 2024

• 📖 The Genesis Book (Aaron van Wirdum, 2024)⭐⭐⭐ An excellent history of digital money, including cypherpunk hx and culminating in Bitcoin
• 📖📻 Fellow Travelers (Thomas Mallon, 2007) Meh. Too much of the politics of the McCarthy era, annoying.
• 📖 Vaults and Covenants (James O’Beirne, 2023) ⭐ A paper actually. Excellent review of current covenant proposals with a focus on OP_VAULT

December 2023

• 📖📻 The Blocksize War (Jonathan Bier, 2021) ⭐⭐ Way more interesting than you might think
• 📖 Gradually, Then Suddenly (Parker Lewis, 2023) ⭐ Pretty good, but well-tread material

November 2023

• 📖 Piranesi (Susanna Clarke, 2020)⭐⭐⭐
• 🎬 The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015) ⭐⭐

October 2023

• 🎬 Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 MI:5 (2015)

September 2023

• 📖 The Mandibles, A Family, 2029-2047 (Lionel Shriver, 2016) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📖📻 Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann, 2017) ⭐⭐
• 📖 Broken Money (Lyn Alden, 2023) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📖📻 The Fourth Turning is Here (Neil Howe, 2023) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Collateral (Michael Mann 2004) ⭐⭐⭐

August 2023

• 🎬 Barbie (2023) ⭐⭐
• 📖 Yellowface (Kuang, 2023) 💩💩💩
• 📖 Mastering Bitcoin (A. Antonopoulos) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ an incredible read. the best mixture of in-the-weeds technical with not too much code i can imagine. the details of the protocol are now crystal clear.

July 2023

• 📖📻 The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin, 1969) ⭐⭐
• 📺 The Righteous Gemstones, Season 3 (2023) ⭐⭐⭐ Looks like the final season, soooo good.

June 2023

• 📖 The Price of Tomorrow (Jeff Booth, 2020) ⭐ better if an essay. thesis: technology is deflationary and technology will continue to dominate.
• 📖 Invitation to a Beheading (Vladimir Nabokov, 1935)
• 📺 Kendra Sells Hollywood, Seasons 1-2 ⭐💩 Really dumb, but kind of entertaining. Good to watch while reconfiguring your server at night.
• 🎬 How Do You Measure a Year? (Who Cares, 2022ish) 💩💩

May 2023

• 🎬 Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📖📻 Heat 2 (Mann and Gardiner, 2022) ⭐⭐⭐ great action, cinematic feeling, page-turner.
• 📖📻 The Road to Serfdom (Hayek, 1944) ⭐⭐ mostly political vs economic. Hayek watched as Nazi Germany developed in the 1930s. This book was written as a warning to Britain and America, out of concern that both were going down a similar road. Philosophical / rationale discussion of capitalism vs collectivism. Claims no real difference between Nazi and Soviets–both became totalitarian horror shows.
• 📖 The Tao of Trading (Simon Ree, 2020) ⭐ useful strategies around options.
• 📖 Option Volatility & Pricing (Sheldon Natenberg, 2014)
• 📖 The Price of Time (Edward Chancellor, 2022)

April 2023

• 📺 100 Foot Wave, Season 1 (Smith, 2021)
• 🎬 Downsizing (2017) 💩💩💩 kind of fun premise turned into preachy environmental doomerism.

March 2023

• 🎬 Knocked Up (2007, Judd Apatow)
• 📺 10th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special (Hei Network, 2023)
• :clapper Dinner for Schmucks (Roach, 2010)
• 📖 Layered Money (Nik Bhatia, 2021) ⭐
• 🎬 Dirty Work (Bob Sagat, Norm MacDonald, 1998) ⭐⭐
• 📖📻 Sea of Tranquility (Emily St John Mandel, 2022) ⭐⭐

February 2023

• 📖 Pictures at a Revolution (Harris, 2009)
• 📖 The Alchemy of Air (Thomas Hager, 2008)
• 📖📻 Atomic Habits (James Clear, 2018) ⭐⭐
• 📖📻 Chip War (Chris Miller, 2022) ⭐⭐⭐
• 🎬 The Five-Year Engagement (Apatow, 2012) ⭐
• 🎬 Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1996) ⭐⭐

January 2023

• 📖 The Network State (Balaji S. Srinivasan, 2022)
• 📖 Gilead (Marilynne Robinson, 2006)
• 📖 Heat 2 (Michael Mann, 2022)⭐⭐⭐ fucking fun!
• 🎬 Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) ⭐

December 2022

• 📺 The Peripheral (2022)
• 🎬 The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 The White Lotus, Season 1 💩💩💩 i don’t care what anyone says, this sucks.
• 📖 Light Chaser (Peter Hamilton, 2021) ⭐⭐

November 2022

• 🎬 Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Game of Thrones, Season 5 (2015) ⭐⭐
• 📺 Game of Thrones, Season 7 (2017) ⭐⭐
• 📖 When We Cease to Understand the World (Labatut & West, 2021) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Game of Thrones, Season 5 (2015) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Game of Thrones, Season 6 (2016) ⭐⭐⭐
• FINRA Series 7 Exam Review (Wiley, 2017)

October 2022

• 📺 Game of Thrones, Season 3 (2013) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Game of Thrones, Season 4 (2014) ⭐⭐⭐

September 2022

• 📺 Game of Thrones, Season 1 (2011) ⭐⭐
• 📺 Game of Thrones, Season 2 (2012) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 House of Dragons, Season 1 (2022) ⭐⭐
• 📰 New Directions in Cryptography (1976, Diffie & Hellman)
• 📖📻 Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (Lansing, 1959) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📖 The Alchemy of Finance (Soros, 2001) ⭐

August 2022

• 📖 Central Banking 101 (Wang, 2021) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 The New Adventures of Old Christine, Season 1 ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Fourth of July (Louis C.K., 2022) ⭐⭐
• 📖 📻 Signs Preceding the End of the World (Uri Herrera, 2016) ⭐⭐
• 📖 📻 The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood, 1985) ⭐⭐⭐

July 2022

• 📖 Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets (Murphy, 1999)
• 📖 Capital Wars (Howell, 2019)
• 📖 Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order (Dalio, 2022)
• 📺 The Rehearsal, Season 1 (Fielder, 2022) ⭐⭐⭐

June 2022

• 📖 The Mystery of Capital (Hernando De Soto, 2000)
• 📖 A Conflict of Visions (Thomas Sowell)
• 📖 The Vision of the Annointed (Thomas Sowell, 1995)
• 📖 My Antonia (Cather) ⭐⭐

May 2022

• 💻 Reflexive Index (RAI) Whitepaper (2019) ⭐
• 📺 The Righteous Gemstones, Season 2 (McBride, 2021) ⭐⭐
• 📺 Vice Principals, Season 1 (Hill & McBride, 2016) ⭐⭐
• 📺 Vice Principals, Season 2 (Hill & McBride, 2017) ⭐⭐

April 2022

• 📺 The Righteous Gemstones, Season 1 (2019) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📖 The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho, 1988) ⭐

March 2022

• 📺 Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 9 (2017) ⭐
• 🎬 The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese, 1988) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Napoleon Dynamite (2004) ⭐⭐
• 📖 Slouching Toward Bethlehem (Joan Didion, 1968) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📖 📻 Anathem (Neal Stephenson, 2008) ⭐⭐
• 📺 Nathan For You, Season 4

February 2022

• 🎬 Licorice Pizza (PTAnderson, 2021) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 How To with John Wilson, Season 1 (2020) ⭐⭐
• 📺 Silicon Valley, Season 5 💩
• 📺 Silicon Valley, Season 4 ⭐
• 📖 📻 Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff, 2019) ⭐⭐⭐

January 2022

• 🎬 Bladerunner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017)
• 🎬 The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Silicon Valley, Season 3 ⭐⭐
• 📺 Silicon Valley, Season 2 ⭐⭐
• 📺 Silicon Valley, Season 1 ⭐⭐
• 📖 Lie with Me (Philippe Besson, 2019) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📖 The Bitcoin Standard (Saifedean Ammous, 2018) ⭐
• 📖 Viral (Chan & Ridley, 2021)
• 📖 Seeing Like a State (James C. Scott, 1999)

December 2021

• 📖 The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch (Dartnell, 2014)
• 🎬 Elf ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Dan in Real Life
• 📺 Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 6 ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Little Dieter Needed to Fly (Herzog) ⭐⭐
• 📖 The Sovereign Individual (Davidson & Rees-Mogg, 1997)

November 2021

• 📖 Seveneves (Stephenson, 2015)
• 🎬 The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson, 2021) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Dune (2021) ⭐⭐
• 📺 Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 1 ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 2 ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 3 ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 4 ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 5 ⭐⭐⭐

October 2021

• 📺 Veep, Season 1 ⭐⭐
• 📖 The Infinite Machine (Camila Russo, 2020)

September 2021

• 📖 T: The Story of Testosterone (Hooven, 2021) ⭐
• 📖 Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (Neal Stephenson, 2019)
• 🎬 Irrational Man (Woody Allen, 2015) 💩💩
• 🎬 Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) ⭐⭐⭐
• 🎷 Hey What (Low, 2021) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Happy Endings, Series 3 (2011) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📺 Happy Endings, Series 2 (2011) ⭐⭐⭐

August 2021

• 📺 Happy Endings, Series 1 (2011) ⭐⭐⭐
• 🎷 Psalms (Nathan Salsburg, 2021) ⭐⭐⭐

July 2021

• 🎬 The Sound of Metal (2020) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Straight Time (1978) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993) ⭐⭐⭐

June 2021

• 🎬 Fatherhood (Paul Weitz, 2021)
• 🎬 Legally Blonde (Robert Luketic, 2001)
• 🎬 Inside (Bo Burnham, 2021) ⭐⭐⭐
• 📖 Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir, 2021) ⭐
• 🎬 Parenthood (Ron Howard, 1989) 💩
• 📺 Master of None (Aziz Anzari, 2021) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 When I Get Home (Solange Knowles, 2019) ⭐

May 2021

• 🎬 Dina (Sickles & Santini, 2017) ⭐
• 🎬 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Jason Woliner, 2020)
• 🎬 Margin Call (JC Chandor, 2011) ⭐
• 🎬 Nomadland (Chloe Zhao, 2021)
• 🎬 Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2021) ⭐⭐
• 📻 The Lex Fridman Podcast
• 📻 Solana Podcast
• 📻 Blocked and Reported
• 📻 Bob and Mickey
• 📻 Zero Knowledge Podcast

April 2021

• 🎬 California Split (Altman, 1974) ⭐
• 📻 Solana Podcast
• 📻 Blocked and Reported
• 📻 Bob and Mickey
• 📺 Community (S4)
• 📺 Community (S5)

March 2021

• 📻 Blocked and Reported
• 📺 Community (S3)
• 🎬 Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)

February 2021

• 🎬 Vanilla Sky (Cameron, 2001)
• 📖 Cynical Theories (Pluckrose & Lindsay, 2019)⭐⭐
• 📺 Community (S1, S2)
• 📻 Sam Harris ⭐⭐
• 📻 Security Now ⭐⭐
• 📻 Home Assistant Podcast

January 2021

• 📖 The Road to Wigan Pier, Chapter 11 (Orwell, 1937)
• 🎬 Kinetta (Lanthimos, 2005)
• 🎬 Klute (Alan Pakula, 1971)
• 🎬 An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (Terence Nance, 2012) ⭐⭐
• 🎷 Capacity (Big Thief, 2017) ⭐
• 📻 Threedom ⭐
• 📻 Useful Idiots
• 📻 Up Close and Personal ⭐
• 📻 TWiV, Clinical Update / Covid
• 📻 Office Hours
• 📻 Sam Harris
• 📻 Glenn and John
• 📻 Bob and Mickey ⭐⭐
• 📻 Security Now ⭐⭐
• 🎬 The Prince of Tides (Streisand, 1991) 💩
• 🎬 Some Kind of Heaven (Lance Oppenheimer, 2021)
• 📖 Nine Stories (Salinger, 1953)
• 📻 Conan Obrien Needs a Friend (guest: Fred Armisen, 1/11/21)

December 2020

• 📻 Threedom
• 📻 Office Hours
• 📻 Sam Harris
• 🎬 It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) ⭐
• 📺 Big Mouth, Season 1 ⭐
• 🎬 Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2019
• 📻 From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Steve Coogan, 2020) ⭐⭐

November 2020

• 🎬 Nosferatu the Vampyre (Herzog, 1979) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Between Two Ferns (Scott Aukerman, 2019)
• 🎬 Old Boyfriends (Tewkesbury, 1979)

October 2020

• 📺 Schitt’s Creek, Season 6
• 📺 Schitt’s Creek, Season 5 ⭐
• 📺 Schitt’s Creek, Season 4 ⭐
• 📺 Schitt’s Creek, Season 3 ⭐
• 📺 Schitt’s Creek, Season 2 ⭐
• 📺 Schitt’s Creek, Season 1 ⭐
• 🎬 Starky and Hutch (Todd Phillips, 2004)
• 🎬 Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Foster, 2006)
• 🎬 How you know? (James Brooks, 2020)
• 🎷 Free Love (Sylvan Esso, 2020)
• 📖 Divided We Fall (David French, 2020)
• 🎬 Phantom of the Paradise (De Palma, 1974) ⭐
• 🎬 Sisters (De Palma, 1973) ⭐
• 📻 Conversations with Coleman, bonus ep (The Problem of Race, 10/3/20)
• 🎷 Fear of Death (Tim Heidecker, 2020)
• 🎷 Talkie Walkie (Air, 2004) ⭐
• 🎬 The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
• 📻 Bob and Mickey + Parrot Room (10/3/20)

September 2020

• 📻 Sam Harris Making Sense (Welcome to thr Cult Factory (Tristan Harris, 9/25/20)
• 📻 Bob Wright and Mickey Kaus + Parrot Room (9/25/20)
• 🎬 Man on Wire
• 🎬 Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
• 📻 The Stratechery Podcast, “2020 Bundles” (9/22/20) ⭐
• 📻 Odd Lots Podcast “crypto”
• 🎬 The Social Dilemma (2020) ⭐
• 🎬 Mother (Albert Brooks, 1999) 💩
• 📻 Odd Lots Podcast “Google Data” (Bloomberg, Sept17, 2020)
• 📻 Conversations with Coleman #14 (Ayishat Akanbi, 2020) ⭐⭐
• 📻 Security Now 784 (Steve Gibson, 2020)
• 📖 Pale Fire (Nabokov, 1962) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Modern Romance (Albert Brooks, 1981)
• 📻 Odd Lots Podcast “Paul McCulley: We are unambiguously on the Verge of a Profound Change in the Economy” (Bloomberg, Sept03 2007 Ep) ⭐
• 📻 Odd Lots Podcast “How SoftBank and Robinhooders Added Fuel to the Stock Market” (Bloomberg, Sept14 2020 Ep) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, 2002)
• 📻 Bob and Mickey + Parrot Room

August 2020

• 🎷 Gold Record (Bill Callahan, 2020) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Road House (Rowdy Herrington, 1989) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005) 💩
• 🎷 Country Visions (Taylor Hollingsworth, 2020) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Entre Nous (Diane Kurys, 1983) ⭐
• 📖 Catching the Big Fish (David Lynch, 2007)
• 🎷 Unchained Melody (The Fleetwoods, 1993, Single) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983) ⭐
• 🎬 Loulou (Maurice Pialat, 1980), Isabelle Huppert ⭐
• 📖 Ansible for Devops (Jeff Geerling, 2nd Ed)
• 📖 Room to Dream (David Lynch and Kristine Mckenna, David Lynch Bio) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 The Promise (Terry George, 2016)
• 🎬 Song to Song (Terrence Mallick, 2017) ⭐
• 🎬 The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999) ⭐
• 🎬 Things to Come (Hansen-Love, 2016), Isabelle Huppert ⭐
• 🎬 Mad Max (George Miller, 1979)
• 🎬 Next of Kin (Atom Egoyan, 1984) ⭐
• 🎬 The ‘Burbs (Joe Dante, 1989)
• 📻 Long Distance Relationship (Louis CK and Blanche Gardin) ⭐⭐
• 📻 Sam Harris - Making Sense ⭐⭐
• 📻 Blogging Heads
• 📻 Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker ⭐⭐
• 📻 This Week in Virology ⭐
• 📻 Up Close and Personal
• 📻 Security Now - Steve Gibson ⭐⭐
• 📻 Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend ⭐
• 📻 Useful Idiots - Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper ⭐
• 📻 Self-Hosted ⭐
• 📻 Linux for Everyone

July 2020

• 📺 Love on the Spectrum (Netflix, 2020) ⭐
• 🎬 Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
• 📺 The Last Dance (Netflix Michael Jordan Documentary, 2019) ⭐
• 📺 Chernobyl Miniseries (Miniseries, 2019) ⭐
• 🎬 Animal House (John Landis, 1978)
• 🎷 Landwerk (Nathan Salsburg, 2020)
• 🎬 The Future (Miranda July, 2011)
• 📖 The Overstory (Richard Powers)
• 🎬 Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July) ⭐
• 🎬 Nest of Tens (Miranda July)
• 🎬 David Lynch: The Art Life
• 🎬 The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980) ⭐
• 🎬 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
• 📺 Twin Peaks, Season 3 ⭐⭐
• 📻 Long Distance Relationship (Louis CK and Blanche Gardin) ⭐⭐
• 📻 Sam Harris - Making Sense ⭐⭐
• 📻 Blogging Heads
• 📻 Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker ⭐⭐
• 📻 This Week in Virology ⭐
• 📻 Up Close and Personal
• 📻 Security Now - Steve Gibson ⭐⭐
• 📻 Conversations with Coleman - Coleman Hughes
• 📻 Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend ⭐
• 📻 Useful Idiots - Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper ⭐
• 📻 Self-Hosted
• 📻 Conversations with Tyler

June 2020

• 🎬 Fargo (Coen Brothers, 1996) ⭐
• 🎬 The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam, 1991) ⭐⭐
• 🎷 U.F.O.F (Big Thief, 2019) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Uncut Gems (Bennie and Josh Safdie, 2019) ⭐
• 🎬 The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)
• 🎬 La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995), Isabelle Hubert ⭐
• 🎬 Isle of Dogs (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2018) ⭐⭐
• 🎬 Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990) ⭐⭐
• 🎬Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010) ⭐
• 🎬 Meantime (Mike Leigh, 1983) ⭐
• 📖 Moby Dick (Melville, 1851)
• 📺 Community, S2E1-E6
• 📺 What We Do in the Shadows, S1E1-E3 ⭐
• 🎬 The Ambassador (2011)