Articles, podcasts & talks I've enjoyed

The essays, podcasts, talks, and articles I've consumed with staying power. ⭐️ for my all-time favorites.

2024

• Alice Munro’s Passive Voice by Rachel Aviv ⭐️

• Revision by Daisy Hildyard

• Repair and Remain by Kurt Armstrong

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion ⭐️

2023

• What I Wish Someone Had Told Me by Sam Altman

• Why Mow? by Michael Pollan

• White Angel by Michael Cunningham ⭐️

• The Shawl by Louise Erdrich

• The Invitation by Barry Lopez

• Solitude and Leadership by William Deresiewicz ⭐️

• California Scheming ⭐️

• Why Judaism by Antonio Garcia Martinez

2022

• Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford ⭐️

• A mental model for combatting climate change ⭐️

• Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem

• Timber CEO Wants to Reform Flawed Carbon-Offset Market

• Floating Upstream with John Markoff and Stewart Brand

• Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? by John Mearsheimer

• A Big Little Idea Called Legibility ⭐️

2021

• There I Almost Am

• How the bobos broke America by David Brooks

• What It Means to be Kind in a Cruel World with Ezra Klein & George Saunders

• A Chemical Hunger ⭐️

• Be Bad at Something, It’s for Your Own Good with Ezra Klein & Jeff Tweedy ⭐️

• The Lab-Leak Hypothesis ⭐️

• The Case of the Missing Hit — Reply All

• What I Worked On by Paul Graham

2020

• This Changed How I Think About Love with Ezra Klein & Alison Gopnik ⭐️

• Know What You Are Selling with Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Nick Kokonas ⭐️

• Spaced repetition memory systems make memory a choice

• We Don't Just Feel Emotions, We Make Them with Ezra Klein & Lisa Feldman Barrett

• Everything You Think You Know about Addiction is Wrong

• The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake by David Brooks ⭐️

• Trumpism never existed with Ezra Klein & Julius Krein ⭐️

• Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor

2019

• How to solve climate change and make life more awesome with Ezra Klein & Saul Griffith ⭐️

• Having Kids by Paul Graham

• When doing the right thing makes you a criminal with Ezra Klein & Wayne Hsiung ⭐️

• The loneliness epidemic with Ezra Klein & Vivek Murthy

• The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

• Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle with Ezra Klein & Anne Helen Petersen

• How to Blog by Tom MacWright ⭐️

2018

• A mind-expanding conversation with Ezra Klein & Michael Pollan ⭐️

Earlier

• This Is Water by David Foster Wallace

• The Voyeur's Motel

• The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist

• Steve Jobs' talk at WWDC 1997