• Read 6 books (2015 min, +540% MoM) and 32 long-form articles (+68%)
• Listened to 483 songs (-26%) and 11 podcast episodes (732 min, +55%)
• Watched 2 movies (+∞), 3 soccer games (290 min, -74%) and 28 TV episodes (1413 min, +9%)
• Played 1 video game (35 min, -36%)

The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A. Norman)
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Tools for Thought (Howard Rheingold)
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Designing Games (Tynan Sylvester)
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Disunited Nations (Peter Zeihan)
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South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
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The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
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The Most Important Media Businesses of the (Past and) Future (Matthew Ball)

How Hip-Hop Helped Cash App Grow Faster (Trapital)

Cyberpunk: Then and now (The Dork Web)

Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism (Conversations with Tyler)

Building Prosumer Software with Rahul Vohra and Todd Goldberg (Venture Stories)

Top Artists: Tame Impala (58 plays), Endel (44), Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (26), Cage the Elephant (21), Destroyer (21)

• Read 2 books (315 min, -73% MoM) and 19 long-form articles (-44%)
• Listened to 656 songs (+34%) and 9 podcast episodes (472 min, +6%)
• Watched 0 movies (-100%), 11 soccer games (1125 min, +389%) and 22 TV episodes (1298 min, +127%)
• Played 4 video games (55 min, +∞%)

The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A. Norman)
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Ra (Sam Hughes)
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Spotify: The Ambient Media Company (Brett Bivens)

Reddit’s Profane, Greedy Traders Are Shaking Up the Stock Market (Bloomberg)

Yuval Noah Harari’s History of Everyone, Ever (The New Yorker)

Sriram Krishnan on Building Consumer Social Platforms (Venture Stories)

World After Capital, with Albert Wenger (Invest Like the Best)

Chernobyl (Season 1)
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Narcos: Mexico (Season 2)
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Succession (Season 2)
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Watchmen (Season 1)
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Top Artists: Endel (110 plays), Zoot Woman (80), Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (68), Abel Korzeniowski (35), Tame Impala (25)

• Read 5 books (1160 min, -19% MoM) and 34 long-form articles (+36%)
• Listened to 488 songs (-21%) and 8 podcast episodes (444 min, +26%)
• Watched 3 movies (-40%), 2 soccer games (230 min, +5%) and 10 TV episodes (571 min, -43%)
• Played 0 video games (0 min, -100%)

A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)
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The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A. Norman)
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Designing Design (Kenya Hara)
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Ra (Sam Hughes)
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Hackers & Painters (Paul Graham)
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2019 Letter (Dan Wang)

Products I Wish Existed (2020 Edition) (Elad Gil)

Products I’d Pay For (2020 Edition) (Dominic Monn)

Underutilized Fixed Assets (Kevin Kwok)

Two Hands Are A Lot (Dominic Cummings)

Shopify: A Starcraft Inspired Business Strategy (Non-GAAP Thoughts)

Matt Clifford on Investing Pre-Company (Invest Like The Best)

Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests (Conversations with Tyler)

Top Artists: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (201), Woodkid (36), Auf Der Maur (35), 坂本龍一 (35), Abel Korzeniowski (33)

• Read 4 books (1435 min, +390% MoM) and 25 long-form articles (+79%)
• Listened to 620 songs (+10%) and 6 podcast episodes (352 min, -38%)
• Watched 5 movies (-38%), 2 soccer games (220 min, -46%) and 21 TV episodes (998 min, +372%)
• Played 1 video game (60 min, +∞%)

The Great Successor. (Anna Fifield)
░▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 2-100%

A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)
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The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A. Norman)
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Augmenting Human Intellect (Douglas C. Engelbart)
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What will you do to stay weird? (Tyler Cowen)

The power of naming (Leo Widrich)

2020 Startup Themes (Part 1) + (Part 2) (Daniel Gross)

Whimsical ideas for 2020 (Sriram Krishnan)

Tony Fadell on Building the iPod, iPhone, Nest, and a Life of Curiosity (The Tim Ferriss Show)

Top Artists: Max Richter (140 plays), Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (59), Eminem (39), Frank Ocean (34), Abel Korzeniowski (31)

• Read 2 books (368 min, -56%) and 14 long-form articles (-60%)
• Listened to 562 songs (+6%) and 9 podcast episodes (618 min, +99%)
• Watched 8 movies (+167%), 4 soccer games (405 min, -51%) and 12 TV episodes (268 min, -70%)
• Played 0 video games (0 min, -100%)

Softwar (Matthew Symonds)
░░░▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░ Progress: 20-55%

The Great Successor. (Anna Fifield)
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Digital Tools I Wish Existed (Jonathan Borichevskiy)

The Social Subsidy of Angel Investing (Alex Danco)

Reimagining Messaging (Daniel Gross)

Integration and Monopoly (Stratechery)

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger – How to Build a Great Product (Invest Like The Best)

Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage (Conversations with Tyler)

Top Artists: Abel Korzeniowski (55 plays), Travi$ Scott (37), Kanye West (32), Beck (30), The National (28)

• Read 4 books (760 min, -33%) and 2 long-form articles (-96%)
• Listened to 447 songs (-17%) and 7 podcast episodes (476 min, -21%)
• Watched 3 movies (+50%), 3 soccer games (300 min, -61%) and 5 TV episodes (297 min, -59%)
• Played 3 video games (860 min, +1465%)

The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro)
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Super Pumped (Mike Isaac)
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Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
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The Dream Machine (M. Mitchell Waldrop)
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Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken (OneZero)

Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People (Conversations with Tyler)

What Bryan Caplan Thinks About Basically Everything (Venture Stories)

Into the Breach, Super Mario Kart, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

Top Artists: Tool, Bon Iver, Yann Tiersen, Deichkind, Bob Moses

• Read 3 books (1140 min, -16%) and 51 long-form articles (+88%)
• 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)
░░░░░░░▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ Progress: 48-93%

House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski)
▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 2-3%

The Dawn of Eurasia (Bruno Macaes)
░░░░░░░░░░░░░░▓ Progress: 92-100%

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)
░░░░░░▓░░░░░░░░ Progress: 40-48%

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)
░░░░░▓░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 38-40%

How Asia Works (Joe Studwell)
░░░░░░▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 42-100%

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