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
- Elige tu Propia Aventura — A podcast about choosing paths, stories, and ideas with curiosity.
- Tecnología Informal — A conversational technology podcast worth keeping close.
- Círculo Vicioso — Society and Culture
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
- How to Live an Asymmetric Life — Graham Weaver — A useful lecture on choosing paths with asymmetric upside.