Time Capsule

A time capsule of favorites recorded every few years.

Jump to 2023 · 2020 · 2013

2023

Listened to many more podcasts than previous years and YouTube videos

Podcasts

• Lex Fridman Podcast
• The All In Podcast
• The Daily Show (NY Times)
• Honestly (Bari Weiss)
• Live Players (Samo Burja)
• History 102 (Rudyard Lynch)
• Econ 102 (Noah Smith)
• Conversations with Tyler (Cowen)
• Upstream & Moment of Zen (Erik Torenberg)
• The Cognitive Revolution (Nathan Labenz)
• The AI Breakdown (Whittemore)

YouTube

• Fall of Civilizations Podcast (Cooper)
• Fast.ai Practical Deep Learning (Howard)
• Andrej Karpathy - Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

Books

• What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies (Urban)
• Elon Musk (Isaacson)
• The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution (Lukianoff)
• Bill Walsh: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership (Walsh)
• The Montessori Toddler: A Parent’s Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being

TV & Movies

Actually, only TV in 2023.

• For All Mankind (Apple TV)
• Slow Horses (Apple TV)
• Severance (Apple TV)
• We Crashed (Apple TV)

Apps

• Apple Podcasts
• X / Twitter
• ChatGPT
• Apple Music
• Apple Camera + Photos
• Firefox
• Tesla
• Audible
• Oura
• Nanit
• HEY Email
• Slack

Websites

• ChatGPT (OpenAI)
• Perplexity.ai
• The Free Press

Software

• VSCode
• Firefox
• Terminal (Mac)
• Slack

Music

Mostly listened to at work or with kids

• Bach and the Baroque (Apple Music playlist)
• Beethoven and the Romantics (Apple Music playlist)
• Electronic Pop (Apple Music playlist)
• Vibes (Apple Music playlist)
• L’amour - Disiz La Peste
• Twenty Trucks
• Storybots
• Batman Theme music - Neal Hefti and His Orchestra
• The Kiffness

Jump to 2023 · 2020 · 2013

2020

Books

• The Uninhabitable Earth (Wallace-Wells)
• The Overstory (Powers)
• Breath (Nestor)
• Principles: Life and Work (Dalio)
• Good Economics for Hard Times (Banerjee, Duflo)
• Why Buddhism Is True (Wright)
• Deep (Nestor)
• Long Walk to Freedom (Mandela)
• Across That Bridge (Lewis)
• The Daily Stoic (Holiday)

TV

• Babies (Netflix)
• Becoming You (Apple TV)
• Never Have I Ever (Netflix)
• Schitt’s Creek (Netflix)
• Ted Lasso (Apple TV)
• Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)
• Central Park (Apple TV+)
• BoJack Horseman (Netflix)

Movies

• RBG
• Hamilton
• Parasite
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Jojo Rabbit
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
• The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Podcasts

• The Daily (NY Times)
• Up First (NPR)
• The Daily Stoic
• The Argument (NY Times)
• Science Magazine Podcast
• Nature Podcast
• Nice White Parents (NY Times)
• Louder Than A Riot (NPR)

Music - Spotify playlists

• Classical New Releases
• Classical Focus
• Jazz for Study
• Atmospheric Piano
• Release Radar (personalized hip-hop+)
• Alternative Hip-Hop
• Mind Right (hip-hop)

Apps

• Audible
• Kindle
• Twitter
• Apple Notes + Reminders
• Apple Podcasts
• NY Times
• Washington Post
• NPR One
• Spotify
• Apple Messages + Facetime
• Apple Camera + Photos
• Whatsapp
• Trello
• Oura
• Philips Hue
• Arlo
• PurpleAir website

Software on Mac

• Visual Studio Code
• Terminal + Oh My Zsh
• Postico
• Firefox
• Slack
• Spotify

Jump to 2023 · 2020 · 2013

2013

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

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

Jump to 2023 · 2020 · 2013