Recent Good Reads.
Essential reads:
- State of the species.
- Pro Publica on what data brokers know about you.
- Great article from 2011 about decision fatigue.
- Murakami’s open letter to Boston after the marathon bombing.
- What if we never run out of oil?
- Ken Brennan is the man. If that wasn’t proof enough.
- The curse of reading and forgetting.
- A history of blue jeans.
- Buzz Bissinger is a total weirdo.
Great reads:
- Being Jewish in state prison.
- The strange case of the Super Mario Bros. movie.
- Fact-checking at The New Yorker.
- How Raymond Davis helped turn Pakistan against the U.S.
- Felix Baumgartner profile in Vanity Fair.
- Learning from Los Gatos. Peer progressives not libertarians!
- The definitive Daft Punk RAM review.
- Inequality and the modern culture of celebrity.
- Jared Lanier on how the Internet is destroying the middle class.
- Marc Maron’s hunt for the perfect pants.
- Great profile on J. Crew’s Jenna Lyons.
- The history of baseball stadium nachos.
- What should Obama do about Syria?
- NYT profile of Y Combinator.
- How I lost $500K for love.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Charles Bukowski
“How’s That” by Twigs
David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech. Chills.
ASTR: Operate
Early Processing experiments. So fun. #hax
Atoms for Peace - Amok (Live). Wow.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege.
Purity Ring - Lofticries.
Not sure how I missed this one last year. Awesome video.
