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Media Consumption (August 2018)

>_ Summary

Read 2 books (285 min, -52%) and 24 long-form articles (-37%).
Listened to 1301 songs (+98%), 2 audiobooks (769 min, +1%) and 10 podcast episodes (482 min, +132%).
Watched 3 movies (+200%), 3 soccer matches (-70%) and 2 TV episodes (same).

>_ Books

High Growth Handbook (Elad Gil)
░░░▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░ Progress: 20-47%

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Harari)
▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-20%

Conspiracy (Ryan Holiday)
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 0-100%

Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 0-100%

>_ Recommended Articles

Is Facebook causing anti-refugee attacks in Germany? (Marginal Revolution)

Why “hearables” are finally tech’s next big thing (Fast Company)

The Power User Curve (Andrew Chen)

>_ Recommended Podcasts

Thinking About Thinking (The Knowledge Project)

>_ Movies

Movies crossed off the IMDB Top 250 list: 0

The Martian (Rating: 3/5)

Isle of Dogs (Rating: 5/5)

Toni Erdmann (Rating: 4/5)

>_ Music

Top Artists: Max Richter, Death Cab for Cutie, Zoot Woman, Deichkind, Element of Crime

Sep 01, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Media Consumption (July 2018)

>_ Summary

Read 2 books (590 min, -40%) and 38 long-form articles (+3%).
Listened to 657 songs (-1%), 2 audiobooks (760 min, +355%) and 8 podcast episodes (208 min, -61%).
Watched 1 movie (same), 10 soccer matches (-33%) and 2 TV episodes (-67%).

>_ Books

1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
░░░░░░░░▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 51-100%

Debt (David Graeber)
░▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 8-12%

Bad Blood (John Carreyrou)
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 0-100%

High Growth Handbook (Elad Gil)
▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-20%

>_ Recommended Articles

Why were early psychedelicists so weird? (Slate Star Codex)

What Happens When a Computer Runs Your Life (Future Human)

How Technology Grows (Dan Wang)

While We Sleep, Our Mind Goes on an Amazing Journey (National Geographic)

On Radical Markets (Vitalik Buterin)

The Twitch Streamers Who Spend Years Broadcasting To No One (The Verge)

How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions (The Daily Beast)

>_ Recommended Podcasts

Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything (Conversations with Tyler)

>_ Movies

Movies crossed off the IMDB Top 250 list: 0

Der Knochenmann (Rating: 4/5)

>_ Music

Top Artists: Nine Inch Nails, Max Richter, Paul Kalkbrenner, Rin, Kings of Convenience

Aug 11, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Media Consumption (June 2018)

>_ Summary

Read 3 books (990 min, +113%) and 37 long-form articles (+247%).
Listened to 661 songs (+21%), 2 audiobooks (167 min, +∞) and 8 podcast episodes (540 min, -8%).
Watched 1 movie (-50%), 15 soccer matches (+750%) and 6 TV episodes (-25%).

>_ Books

The Elephant in the Brain (Kevin Simler,‎ Robin Hanson)
░░░░░░░░░░▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 65-100%

Finite and Infinite Games (James Carse)
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 0-100%

In Praise of Shadows (Junichiro Tanizaki)
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 0-100%

1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-51%

Debt (David Graeber)
▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-8%

>_ Recommended Articles

Computing in Concert (MG Siegler)

Alexa, Please Send This To My Screen (Jan König)

Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality? (New Yorker)

Why We Need Web Brutalism (Imaginary Cloud)

Koks, the World’s Most Remote Foodie Destination (New Yorker)

How To Read (Robert Heaton)

>_ Recommended Podcasts

Identity & Honesty (Waking Up with Sam Harris)

>_ Movies

Movies crossed off the IMDB Top 250 list: 0

Beirut (Rating: 3/5)

>_ Music

Top Artists: Max Richter, Nine Inch Nails, Paul Kalkbrenner, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Kanye West

Jul 04, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Jun 15, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Media Consumption (May 2018)

>_ Summary

Read 2 books (465 min, +258%) and 15 long-form articles (-29%).
Listened to 545 songs (+2%), 0 audiobooks (same) and 10 podcasts (590 min, +228%).
Watched 2 movies (+100%), 2 soccer matches (-60%) and 8 TV episodes (+167%).

>_ Books

The Elephant in the Brain (Kevin Simler,‎ Robin Hanson)
░░░░▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░ Progress: 23-65%

Akira, Vol. 1 (Katsuhiro Otomo)
░░░░░░░▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 50-100%

>_ Recommended Articles

Why German companies fail at digital innovation (Handelsblatt)

Invisible asymptotes (Eugene Wei)

Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs (Slate Star Codex)

>_ Recommended Podcasts

Earning Your Stripes (The Knowledge Project)

Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Conversations with Tyler)

The Case Against Education (a16z)

Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American complacency (The Ezra Klein Show)

>_ Movies

Movies crossed off the IMDB Top 250 list: 0

Frost / Nixon (Rating: 4/5)

AlphaGo Documentary (Rating: 4/5)

>_ Music

Top Artists: The XX, Kanye West, Interpol, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails

Jun 03, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Media Consumption (Apr 2018)

>_ Summary

Read 1 book (130 min, -66%) and 21 long-form articles (-53%).
Listened to 531 songs (-33%), 0 audiobooks (0 min, -100%) and 3 podcasts (180 min, -60%).
Watched 1 movie (-67%), 5 soccer matches (-17%) and 3 TV episodes (-25%).

>_ Books

The Elephant in the Brain (Kevin Simler,‎ Robin Hanson)
▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-23%

>_ Recommended Articles

Do Androids Dream of Colossal Women? (Vulture)

Tokyo and Hong Kong in 2018 (haywirez)

>_ Recommended Podcasts

Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain (Conversations with Tyler)

Naval on Periscope
(Not really a podcast, but highly recommend watching this.)

>_ Movies

Movies crossed off the IMDB Top 250 list: 0

Okja (Rating: 2/5)

>_ Music

Top Artists: Max Richter, Queens of the Stone Age, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Cage the Elephant

May 01, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Media Consumption (Mar 2018)

>_ Summary

Read 2 books (385 min, +∞) and 45 long-form articles (+18%).
Listened to 787 songs (-14%), 3 audiobooks (647 min, -31%) and 7 podcasts (453 min, +159%).
Watched 3 movies (-40%), 6 soccer matches (-14%) and 4 TV episodes (-50%).

>_ Books

Cryptoassets (Chris Burniske)
░░░░░▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░ Progress: 40-65%

Tools of Titans (Tim Ferriss)
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░ Progress: 0-68%

Principles: Life & Work (Ray Dalio)
░░░░░░░░░░░░▓▓▓ Progress: 81-100%

The Complacent Class (Tyler Cowen)
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ Progress: 0-100%

Red Mars (Kim Robinsom)
▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ Progress: 0-10%

>_ Recommended Articles

The Commercial Zen of Muji (New Yorker)

Japan’s Gross National Cool (Foreign Policy)

Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous. (Bloomberg)

Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook Data Abuse Shouldn’t Get Credit For Trump (The Verge)

The Graph API: Key Points in the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Debacle (Jonathan Albright)

The Cyperpunk Sensibility (ribbonfarm)

>_ Movies

(Movies crossed off the IMDB Top 250 list: 1)

The Departed (Rating: 3/5)

The Outsider (Rating: 1/5)

The Post (Rating: 4/5)

>_ Music

Top Artists: Max Richter, Radiohead, Gas, James McAlister, Slut

Apr 02, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Bowls of ramen I had this year: 4

Mar 31, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Introducing monote

Today is a special day for me:
After 6 months of hard work I’m finally launching monote.

I quit my job in October last year to learn how to code and build something of my own and monote is the result of these last few months!

So what is monote?
I often stumble upon interesting products on the web, but then can’t find them again later. I used to be a heavy user of Svpply back in the day, but never found a good alternative when it was shut down (RIP). I’ve tried to use alternatives like Pocket, Pinterest or Kit but none of these tools ever really worked for me.

So I decided to built my own tool: monote is a bookmarking app for products. It’s a little Chrome Extension that lives in your browser and whenever you see something interesting you can quickly add it to your Wants.

Instead of just having one big wishlist, you can organize your products in different collections.

Here some of mine:

I also started using monote to keep track of how much stuff I own:

You can also build collections based on articles, videos, books or podcasts: I often find myself listening to podcasts or reading blog articles that mention a lot of products and wish there was a quick way to find and save them.

Here are a few examples:

I’m a total list junkie – so all collections on monote are also available as sortable lists.

Here is a collection of all products listed in Tools of Titans, for example. You can sort it alphabetically by product name, comment (the different interviewees in this case), product category, price or popularity (number of people on monote who Want the item).

I’m lousy coder and this is literally the first time I’m launching anything, so please excuse any bugs. This launch will hopefully give me some insight into what’s working and – more importantly – what isn’t. Once those things are fixed, I want to add some additional features. Here’s what’s on my to-do list:

  • Try to get the extension to work on all sites
  • Custom columns for collections
  • Search
  • Ability to Add/Want or Fork collections
  • Firefox support

Okay, enough chit-chat. Head over to monote and give it a spin!

Let me know what you think over at Twitter or add your feedback to this Product Hunt thread.

Mar 28, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE

Mar 20, 2018  ×  Berlin, DE
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