Movies
- Past Lives
- Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse
- The Prestige
Books
- Project Hail Mary // Andy Weir
- The Bonfire of the Vanities // Tom Wolfe
- The Overstory // Richard Powers
New Music
- Further Joy // The Regrettes
- Diamonds and Dancefloors // Ava Max
- Wet Tennis // Sofi Tukker
- The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND // Pup
- Past Lives // L.S. Dunes
- So Much (For) Stardust // Fall Out Boy
- Mega Man II // Bit Brigade
- Gag Order // Kesha
- New Ruin // The Flatliners
- Guts // Olivia Rodrigo
Old Music
- The Artist in the Ambulance // Thrice
- Wet from Birth // The Faint
- The Downward Spiral // Nine Inch Nails
New Songs
- What I Want // Muna
- Ratata // Skrillex
- Above Me // Rufio
- Salt // The Devil Wears Prada
- Holiday // Confidence Man
- Our Song // Silverstein
- Reverie // Polyphia
- Only Problem // Pale Waves
- Permanent Rebellion // L.S. Dunes
- It Takes Times // L.S. Dunes
- Waiting // PUP
- Show Me You Want Me // The Regrettes
- La Di Da // The Regrettes
- BURN THE WITCH // Pinkshift
- Summer in New York // Sofi Tukker
- Swing // Sofi Tukker
- Ringless // Sofi Tukker
- You’re So Fucking Pretty // The Regrettes
- Totally Fine // PUP
- Nowhere // The Regrettes
- Date Night // White Lung
- 757 // 100 Gecs
- Hollywood Baby // 100 Gecs
- Heartbreak Feels So Good // Fall Out Boy
- Dr. Wily’s Castle // Bit Brigade
- Welcome to the DCC // Nothing but Thieves
- Second Chance // Peter Bjorn and John
- Weapons // Ava Max
- Erase // Brooks Aleksander
- Tunnels // Bicep
- Feed Them to the Pigs // Parkway Drive
- Love Tonight // David Guetta
- Are You Dead Yet? // Children of Bodom
- Living in my Head // Kesha
- all-american bitch // Olivia Rodrigo
- Phototroph // Moon Tooth
- Speed Drive // Charli XCX
- Sugar Babies // Spoon
Old Music
- M.U.S.I.C // Nid & Sancy
- Desperate Guys // The Faint
- Welcome to Horrorwood // Ice Nine Kills
- Obstacle 1 // Interpol
- 7empest // TOOL
- Tesla // Corvad
- Devil Don’t Know // A Wilhelm Scream
- Awe at all Angles // Moon Tooth
- Reptilia // The Strokes
Ideas
- I see seven buckets where one expends energy: (1) romantic relationship (2) parenthood (3) friendships (4) fitness/health (5) interests (6) knowledge (7) career. And since everyone has limited time, excelling in all seven categories is all but impossible due to ever-present tradeoffs.
- Four levels of thinking:
- Regurgitation
- Error Detection
- What Matters
- Proposing Proper Strategy
- Try playing with not being immediately identified as the thing you most like being identified as. If your identity is true – you like being seen as smart and you are indeed smart – it will be revealed in time. By getting there RIGHT NOW, you (a) close off the possibility of being other things and (b) pay less attention to your surroundings.
- It’s easier to get over things when there isn’t anger tied to the thing.
- Unless you buy face value, don’t buy any ticket to anything until a minimum of 36 hours before the show
- A more malleable variable is the simple fact that we tend to turn less excitable in age. And it is excitement that undergirds playing – you play because you are excited to play.
- Doing something new often yields easy gains at first (i.e., low-hanging fruit). If the gains don’t become harder over time you are either a prodigy or not actually progressing due to insufficient willingness to challenge oneself.
- It’s easier to be angry than sad.
- The less likely honesty is to be expressed in a situation, the more valuable it becomes. Said differently: the more nervous you are about speaking honestly, the more you should.
- When you are tempted to lie about a personal fact, you are likely carrying shame about that fact. Said differently: if you are lying about your net worth, your sexual conquests, your bench press max, your etc., true self-confidence is lacking.
- Hence the phenomenon of I can’t even follow my own advice! Obviously. Standing between advice and execution is emotion. If you can ignore the emotion and altogether avoid action, the pipeline to “answers” is clean. This reality tends to leave the advice-receiver (AR) in a doubly uncomfortable position.