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• Listened to 540 songs (+4%), 0 audiobooks (same) and 9 podcast episodes (602 min, +35%)
• Watched 2 movies (-71%), 10 soccer games (760 min, +181%) and 11 TV episodes (727 min, -36%)
• Played 1 video game (55 min, +∞)

The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro)
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House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski)
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The Dawn of Eurasia (Bruno Macaes)
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Inside Tokyo’s Audiophile Venues (Resident Advisor)

Peter Thiel’s Religion (David Perell)

Meditations on Moloch (Slate Star Codex)

The players are the artists; the game is the venue (Alex Danco)

The Arc of Collaboration (Kevin Kwok)

Fast Software, the Best Software (Craig Mod)

Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality (Conversations with Tyler)

An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure (The Portal)

Top Artists: Bon Iver, Tool, Hans Zimmer, Max Richter, Oscar Peterson Trio

• Read 5 books (1355 min, +179%) and 27 long-form articles (-7%)
• Listened to 521 songs (+62%), 0 audiobooks (same) and 8 podcast episodes (445 min, -10%)
• Watched 7 movies (+600%), 3 soccer games (-25%) and 21 TV episodes (1141 min, -28%)
• Played 0 video games (-100%)

The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro)
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The Revolt of the Public (Martin Gurri)
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Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
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House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski)
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The Dawn of Eurasia (Bruno Macaes)
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How I practice at what I do (Tyler Cowen)

The Economist Who Would Fix the American Dream (The Atlantic)

Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds (New Yorker)

Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality (Conversations with Tyler)

An Era of Stagnation & Universal Institutional Failure (The Portal)

Top Artists: The National, Thom Yorke, The Black Keys, James Blake, Van Morrison

• Read 5 books (485 min, +10%) and 29 long-form articles (+16%)
• Listened to 321 songs (+21%), 0 audiobooks (0 min, -100%) and 8 podcast episodes (495 min, +114%)
• Watched 1 movie (-80%), 4 soccer games (same) and 28 TV episodes (1577 min, +431%)
• Played 1 video game (485 min, +52%)

The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro)
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How Asia Works (Joe Studwell)
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The Thief (Fuminori Nakamura)
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The Revolt of the Public (Martin Gurri)
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It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning (Ted Chiang, NYT)

You can handle the post-truth (Aaron Z. Lewis)

Kinky Labor Supply and the Attention Tax (Andrew Kortina)

Joe Rogan Experience #1309 – Naval Ravikant

Feeling Superhuman with Rahul Vohra (The Art of Product Podcast)

Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business (Conversations with Tyler)

Top Artists: The National, Hans Zimmer, Radiohead, Oasis, Thom Yorke

• Read 2 books (440 min, -27%) and 25 long-form articles (+14%)
• Listened to 266 songs (-31%), 1 audiobook (200 min, -86%) and 4 podcast episodes (231 min, -58%)
• Watched 5 movies (+400%), 4 soccer games (-50%) and 5 TV episodes (297 min, +141%)
• Played 1 video game (320 min, -3%)

Killing Commendatore (Haruki Murakami)
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The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro)
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How Asia Works (Joe Studwell)
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Why books don’t work (Andy Matuschak)

Understanding Abundance (Alex Danco)

Going Critical (Kevin Simler)

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (Yancey Strickler)

The making of Amazon Prime (Vox / Recode)

Top Artists: The National, The Black Keys, Queens of the Stone Age, Two Door Cinema Club, Deichkind

• Read 4 books (605 min, +30%) and 22 long-form articles (-29%)
• Listened to 385 songs (-54%), 1 audiobook (1423 min, +7000%) and 9 podcast episodes (553 min, same)
• Watched 1 movie (same), 8 soccer games (+33%) and 4 TV episodes (123 min, -70%)
• Played 1 video game (330 min, +∞)

The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro)
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Meaning in History (Karl Löwith)
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White (Kenya Hara)
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How Asia Works (Joe Studwell)
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Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential (Hiten Shah)

End-user Programming (Ink & Switch)

I, too, am Contrarian (Alex Danco)

End Games with Naval Ravikant (Pt 1) (After On)

End Games with Naval Ravikant (Pt 2) (After On)

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo Switch)

Top Artists: Hans Zimmer, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Radiohead, Gorillaz, Rammstein

Read 3 books (465 min, -30%) and 31 long-form articles (+3%).
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Watched 1 movie (-75%), 6 soccer games (-14%) and 23 TV episodes (415 min, -25%).

The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro)
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Has the West Lost It? (Kishore Mahbubani)
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White (Kenya Hara)
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What The Hell Is Going On? (David Perell)

Mini (Asymco)

What Is Amazon? (Zack Kanter)

Life Capital (Erik Torenberg)

Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent (Conversations with Tyler)

What Keith Rabois Thinks About Basically Everything (Venture Stories)

True Detective (Season 3) (HBO)

LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS (Netflix)

Jailbreaking the Simulation with George Hotz(SXSW 2019)

Top Artists: Modeselektor, Kuniyuki Takahashi, James Blake, Elskavon, Radiohead

Read 6 books (665 min, -50%) and 30 long-form articles (-14%).
Listened to 772 songs (-5%), 2 audiobooks (58 min, -86%) and 12 podcast episodes (695 min, +9%).
Watched 4 movies (+300%), 7 soccer games (+134%) and 11 TV episodes (+267%).

Stubborn Attachments (Tyler Cowen)
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The Gentleman’s Guide to Cocktails (Alfred Tong)
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs)
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Imbibe! (David Wondrich)
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The Dead Rabbit (Sean Muldoon, Jack McGarry, Jillian Vose)
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The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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Killing Commendatore (Haruki Murakami)
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Book Review: Zero To One (Slate Star Codex)

Entrepreneur First the Index VC Fund (Digitizing Biology)

What Happens When Techno-Utopians Actually Run a Country (Wired)

The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami (New Yorker)

The Most Powerful Person in Silicon Valley (Fast Company)

Top Artists: TV on the Radio, James Blake, Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Bob Moses

Read 7 books (1320 min, +16%) and 35 long-form articles (-24%).
Listened to 814 songs (+61%), 1 audiobook (401 min, +∞%) and 11 podcast episodes (639 min, -12%).
Watched 1 movies (-50%), 3 soccer games (-50%) and 3 TV episodes (-80%).

The Courage To Be Disliked (Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga)
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Radical Markets (Eric A. Posner & Glen Weyl)
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The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States (Jeffrey Lewis)
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Reality is Broken (Jane McGonigal)
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Sprint (Jake Knapp)
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The Sovereign Individual (James Dale Davidson)
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Stubborn Attachments (Tyler Cowen)
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Men Without Women (Haruki Murakami)
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The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante… and a murder (Wired)

The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin (First Round Review)

My parents are Flat-Earthers (Jim Fisher)

2018 Predictions: Calibration Results (Slate Star Codex)

Predictions for 2019 (Slate Star Codex)

Keith Rabois on the future of innovation in Silicon Valley (Recode/Decode)

Tyler Cowen: Two Blundering Fools (North Star Podcast)

Matt Levine: Money Stuff (North Star Podcast)

Keith Rabois: Accumulating Advantages (North Star Podcast)

Top Artists: Jóhann Jóhannsson, James Blake, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Max Richter

Read 5 books (1135 min, +260%) and 46 long-form articles (+59%).
Listened to 505 songs (+2%), 0 audiobook (0 min, -100%) and 11 podcast episodes (726 min, +13%).
Watched 2 movies (same), 6 soccer games (-14%) and 15 TV episodes (+650%).

Der Nasse Fisch (Volker Kutscher)
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The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
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How The Internet Happened (Brian McCullough)
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The Courage To Be Disliked (Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga)
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Radical Markets (Eric A. Posner & Glen Weyl)
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52 things I learned in 2018 (Tom Whitwell)

The Friendship that made Google huge (The New Yorker)

The Short Life of Popcorn Prediction Markets (The Ringer)

What Noah Smith Thinks About Basically Everything (Venture Stories)

Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe (Tim Ferriss Show)

Top Artists: Arcade Fire, Hans Zimmer, Gorillaz, IAMX, Radiohead

Read 5 books (315 min, -36%) and 29 long-form articles (+21%).
Listened to 495 songs (-37%), 1 audiobook (80 min, -62%) and 12 podcast episodes (643 min, +13%).
Watched 2 movies (+100%), 7 soccer matches (same) and 2 TV episodes (-69%).

The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
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1Q84: Book 3 (Haruki Murakami)
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number9dream (David Mitchell)
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The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
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The Sovereign Individual (James Dale Davidson)
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Der Nasse Fisch (Volker Kutscher)
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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics (Andrew Chen)

Apple’s New Map (Justin O’Beirne)

How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit (Rahul Vohra)

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Marginal Revolution)

Open Questions (Gwern)

Elon Musk: The Recode interview (Recode Decode)

Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying “Thanks” (Conversations with Tyler)

In 20 Years, China Will Be on Mars — and the U.S. Will Be an Island (2038)

Top Artists: Max Richter, Gorillaz, Radiohead, Hans Zimmer, Rin’