Time Capsule
My favorite books, podcasts, apps, and more from 2013, 2020, and 2023
Dec 27, 2013
4 min read
A time capsule of favorites recorded every few years.
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
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
- Apple Notes + Reminders
- Apple Podcasts
- NY Times
- Washington Post
- NPR One
- Spotify
- Apple Messages + FaceTime
- Apple Camera + Photos
- Trello
- Oura
- Philips Hue
- Arlo
- PurpleAir website
Software on Mac
- Visual Studio Code
- Terminal + Oh My Zsh
- Postico
- Firefox
- Slack
- Spotify
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 messaging
- Mailbox - for email zen
- Google Authenticator & LastPass - for keeping passwords 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, Instapaper, 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 open-source 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 Access Memories