Shelf

Books, movies, albums, podcasts, articles, and other things that gave something to my life.

Books

  • The Book of Elon — Eric Jorgenson — A compact collection of Elon Musk on work, companies and porpuse.
  • Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges — A foundational maze of stories about infinity, language, authorship, and reality.
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — Eric Jorgenson — A compact collection of ideas on leverage, judgment, wealth, and happiness.
  • The MANIAC — Benjamin Labatut — A feverish literary portrait of computation, genius, and the people around it.
  • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned — Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman — A sharp argument against overfitting life and research to fixed objectives.

Movies

  • Akira — Katsuhiro Otomo — A landmark cyberpunk anime with explosive worldbuilding and visual force.
  • Marty Supreme — Josh Safdie — A high-strung story about chasing greatness past the point of good sense.
  • Memento — Christopher Nolan — A fractured thriller about memory, identity, and self-deception.
  • One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson — A paranoid, kinetic reunion of ex-revolutionaries and unfinished history.
  • Punch-Drunk Love — Paul Thomas Anderson — An anxious, luminous romance about loneliness finding an exit.
  • The Truman Show — Peter Weir — A clean, unsettling fable about surveillance, performance, and escape.

Series

  • Better Call Saul — Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould — A patient legal tragedy about compromise, identity, and consequence.
  • Breaking Bad — Vince Gilligan — A ruthless transformation story with unusually precise escalation.
  • Mr. Robot — Sam Esmail — A cyberpsychological thriller about systems, control, and fractured identity.

Podcasts

Articles

  • 421 — Curated cognitive diet
  • Lifehacks — Alexey Guzey — A practical collection of small habits, tools, and tactics for living better.
  • Nada Respetable — Cultural criticism with art and paranoia as tools of resistance
  • On Learning How to Learn — Hasu — A useful essay on improving the way you acquire and compound knowledge.

Videos