2013 Favorites

A time capsule of favorites from 2013. See also 2020.

Podcasts

• NPR: Planet Money
• New Yorker: Out Loud
• New Yorker: The Political Scene
• Fareed Zakaria GPS - free audio podcast
• This American Life
• Radiolab
• Science Magazine Podcast
• NPR: Foreign Dispatch
• NPR: Fresh Air
• The Economist: Editors Picks
• Ruby 5

Charities

• GiveDirectly - cash to the world’s poorest, no strings attached
• charity: water
• Kiva - micro loans

Learning

• Growth Hacker TV
• Code Academy - free
• Code School
• Coursera - free
• edX - free

Apps

• Stitcher - for podcasts
• Trello - lists for everything
• Songza - curated music playlists
• Splitwise - for tracking money borrowed and lent
• Circa - for news
• WhatsApp & Facebook Messenger - for messenging
• Mailbox - for email zen
• Google Authenticator & LastPass - for keeping pw’s unique and accounts safe
• BTT Remote, VLC Remote, Apple Remote app - to control Mac mini hooked up to TV
• Google Hangouts, Facetime & Skype - for video calls
• Kindle, Istapaper, Wikipanion* with offline, Quora, - for reading / knowledge
• Beethoven’s 9th - for relaxing on planes
• Timers Pro - for CrossFit workouts
• Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
• Dropbox - for keeping files in the cloud

Software

• Google Chrome - for almost everything but…
• VLC - media watching
• Dropbox - for managing files
• uTorrent - downloading opensource media
• RubyMine - coding
• Skitch - screenshots and annotations
• HipChat - team communication
• Picasa - quick photo editing & uploading
• Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator

Mac Apps

• BetterTouch Tool - window snapping on a Mac and works with BTT Remote phone app
• f.lux - dims screen’s blue light at night to help you sleep
• Skitch - screen capture + annotation

2013 Music

• Kendrick Lamar - 2013 guest appearances following, 2012’s Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
• J Cole - Born Sinner
• Jay-Z - Magna Carter Holy Grail
• Drake - Nothing Was The Same
• A$AP Rocky - Long.Live A$AP
• Kanye West - Yeezus
• Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ
• Eminem - Marshal Mathers LP 2
• Killer Mike & El-P - Run the Jewels
• Daft Punk - Random Acces Memories