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Media Consumption (January ’18)

>_ SUMMARY

Read (parts of) 2 books (130 min, -68%) and 26 long-form articles (-21%).
Listened to 814 songs (+26%), 2 audiobooks (1115 min, +104%) and 4 podcasts (268 min, +36%).
Watched 5 movies (+/- 0%), 2 soccer matches (-33%) and 21 TV episodes (+ ∞).

>_ BOOKS

Akira, Vol. 1 (Katsuhiro Otomo)
░░░░░▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░ Progress: 30-50%

Utopia for Realists (Rutger Bregman)
░▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 3-100%

The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin)
░░▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 11-100%

Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
░░▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 8-18%

>_ RECOMMENDED ARTICLES

My Family’s Slave (The Atlantic)

Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not (The New York Times)

In Search of the Elusive Bitcoin Billionaire (Reason)

Tyler Cowen’s 12 rules for life (Marginal Revolution)

Amazon’s Go and the Future (Stratechery)

Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble (The New York Times)

>_ RECOMMENDED PODCASTS

Confronting Your Fears and Taking a Leap with Pieter Levels of Nomad List (Indie Hackers)

>_ MOVIES
Movies crossed off the IMDB Top 250 list: 4

Star Wars: Episode VIII (Rating: 3/5)

The Pianist (Rating: 4/5)

Good Will Hunting (Rating: 4/5)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Rating: 2/5)

A Beautiful Mind (Rating: 4/5)

>_ RECOMMENDED TV-SERIES

The End of the F*cking World

The Crown (Season 2)

>_ MUSIC

Top Artists: Nils Frahm, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Nine Inch Nails, Hans Zimmer
Favorite Song: Thom Yorke – Black Swan

Feb 01, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Life Event: Turned 30 Today

Jan 27, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Media Consumption (December ’17)

>_ SUMMARY

Read (parts of) 3 books (410 min, +925%) and 33 long-form articles (-20%).
Listened to 646 songs (-6%), 3 audiobooks (547 min, +8%) and 7 podcasts (197 min, -13%).
Watched 5 movies (+67%), 3 soccer matches (-40%) and 0 TV episodes (same).

>_ Books:

Leonardo da Vinci (Walter Isaacson)
░░░░░░░░░▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 60-100%

Cryptoassets (Chris Burniske)
░▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 5-40%

Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-12%

Akira, Vol. 1 (Katsuhiro Otomo)
▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-30%

Utopia for Realists (Rutger Bregman)
▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-3%

The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin)
▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-11%

>_ RECOMMENDED ARTICLES

I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (Slate Star Codex)

How to Hire Fake Friends and Family (The Atlantic)

What You Can’t Say (Paul Graham)

Disney and Fox (Stratechery)

The App That Reminds You You’re Going to Die (The Atlantic)

He Stole $100 Million From His Clients. Now He’s Living in Luxury on the Côte d’Azur. (Bloomberg)

The Danger of President Pence (New Yorker)

Why Cryonics Makes Sense (Wait But Why)

>_ RECOMMENDED PODCASTS

Tim Urban, Wait But Why (Kevin Rose Show)

Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space (Conversations With Tyler)

>_ MOVIES
Movies from IMDB Top 250 list: 3

American Beauty (Rating: 3/5)

The Shawshank Redemption (Rating: 5/5)

Old boy (Rating: 5/5)

Gangster Squad (Rating: 2/5)

Swiss Army Man (Rating: 4/5)

>_ MUSIC

Top Artists: Portugal. The Man, Philip Glass, Radiohead, The National, Franz Ferdinand
Favorite Song: Moby – Like A Motherless Child

Jan 05, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Life Event: Moved to Berlin today

Jan 02, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Hamburg – Berlin

Mode of Transport: Bus
Distance: ~300km
Duration: 2:55h
Activity: Audiobooks

Jan 02, 2018  ×  ?

List of Things I Want to Do in 2018

  • Improve my swim skills
  • Go for a swim at least once per week
  • Swim more than in 2017 (101km)
  • Meditate at least 5 times per week
  • Finish and launch prototype of █████
  • ███████████████
  • ██████████████
  • Read at least 15 books
  • Read/watch more Manga/Anime
  • Write 12 long-form blog posts
  • Update design of this blog
  • Move to Berlin
  • Do a total of 10950 push-ups
  • Watch 50 movies from the IMDB Top-250 list
  • Eat less sugar
  • Limit meat consumption to 24 meals
  • Write more lists
  • Visit a country I’ve never been to before
Dec 31, 2017  ×  Hamburg, DE

Basel – Hamburg

Mode of Transport: Train
Distance: ~800km
Duration: 6:30h
Activity: Read & Sleep

Dec 29, 2017  ×  ?

Göttingen – Basel

Mode of Transport: Train
Distance: ~600km
Duration: 4:30h
Activity: Audiobooks

Dec 10, 2017  ×  ?

Hamburg – Göttingen

Mode of Transport: Train
Distance: ~290km
Duration: 2:15h
Activity: Read

Dec 07, 2017  ×  ?

IST ✈ HAM

Distance: 1980km
Duration: 3:15h
CO2 Emissions: 485kg
Airline: AtlasGlobal
Activity: Sleep

Dec 06, 2017  ×  
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