# Likes

> Things I enjoy, admire, and draw inspiration from.

## Books

- The Name of the Wind
- Dune
- Malazan Book of the Fallen
- The Hobbit
- The Three-Body Problem
- The Left Hand of Darkness
- The Expanse
- The Stormlight Archive
- Discworld
- The Wheel of Time

## Games

- Elden Ring
- Hollow Knight
- The Witcher 3
- Disco Elysium
- Celeste
- Dark Souls
- Slay the Spire
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Persona 5
- Hades
- The Legend of Zelda
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Stardew Valley
- Portal 2
- Undertale
- Minecraft
- Firewatch
- Journey

## Blogs

- Wait But Why
- Paul Graham Essays
- Overreacted
- Stratechery
- LessWrong
- Farnam Street
- Joel on Software
- Seth's Blog
- Nikita Voloboev
- Julia Evans

## Podcasts

- Darknet Diaries
- Lex Fridman Podcast
- The Knowledge Project
- Revisionist History
- Radiolab
- 99% Invisible
- The Daily
- Acquired
- The Tim Ferriss Show
- Song Exploder

## Music

- Radiohead
- Pink Floyd
- Daft Punk
- Hans Zimmer
- Ludovico Einaudi
- The Beatles
- Kendrick Lamar
- Arctic Monkeys
- ODESZA
- Bonobo

## Films

- Inception
- Spirited Away
- The Godfather
- Blade Runner 2049
- Parasite
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Dark Knight
- Whiplash
- Arrival
- The Matrix

## Tools

- VS Code
- Notion
- Obsidian
- Figma
- Zotero
- Git
- Raycast
- Arc Browser
- Tailscale
- Alfred
- Python
- React
- Tailwind CSS
- Linux

## Quirks

- Collecting Notebooks
- Synthwave Playlists
- Speedrunning Wikipedia
- Making Spreadsheets for Fun
- Tracking Habits
- Trying New Fonts
- Organizing Bookmarks
- Learning Keyboard Shortcuts
- Customizing Dotfiles
- Building Personal Dashboards

## Humans

- Paul Graham
- Elon Musk
- Marie Curie
- Ada Lovelace
- Alan Turing
- Richard Feynman
- Steve Jobs
- Grace Hopper
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Carl Sagan

## Organizations

- OpenAI
- NASA
- Mozilla
- EFF
- Wikipedia
- Khan Academy
- FreeCodeCamp
- Linux Foundation
- Creative Commons
- Internet Archive

## Ideas

- Effective Altruism
- Open Source Everything
- Remote Work
- Digital Minimalism
- Universal Basic Income
- Decentralization
- Lifelong Learning
- Interdisciplinary Thinking
- Science Communication
- Personal Knowledge Management
- Growth Mindset
- First Principles Thinking
- Antifragility
- Stoicism
- Systems Thinking
- Beginner's Mind
- Moonshot Thinking
- Serendipity
- Radical Candor
- Deep Work

## Talks

- How Great Leaders Inspire Action
- The Power of Vulnerability
- Do Schools Kill Creativity?
- Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are
- Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator
- The Puzzle of Motivation
- The Art of Stillness
- The Surprising Science of Happiness
- What Makes a Good Life?
- The Power of Introverts

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Last updated: 2026-10-31