2022 favorites to date
Last updated 2022-12-05
This is stuff I consumed in 2022, not necessarily stuff released in 2022.
Books
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
- The End of Solitude, William Deresiewicz
- Talent, Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
- How to Change, Katy Milkman
- The Fifties, David Halberstam
- Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen
- From Front Porch to Back Seat, Beth Bailey
- A Widow for One Year, John Irving
- The Last Days of Roger Federer, Geoff Dyer
- Of Boys and Men, Richard Reeves
- Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, Katherine Rundell
- The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
- The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman
- The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles, Jon Bois
- The Score Takes Care of Itself, Bill Walsh et al.
Audiobooks
- The Pragmatic Programmer, Thomas & Hunt (narr. Katarina)
- Software Engineering at Google, C. Titus Winters et al.
- A Way With Words II: Approaches to Literature, Michael D.C. Drout
Podcast / YouTube episodes
- UChicago Aims of Education 2022, Agnes Callard
- Two products that cannot be equal, Timothy Gowers
- How to score 10 runs in the first inning and lose
- Roland Fryer on Educational Reform, EconTalk
- Doug Polk Podcast: Poker Pro to Full-Time Trading (with Jason Strasser)
- Reconcilable Differences #179: I Believe in the System... Kind Of
- The Morning Shakeout: Kate Grace
- Causality 16: Tenerife
- Remembering Michael K. Williams, WTF with Marc Maron
- Indie Hackers (various episodes)
- An Interview With Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman About the Democratization of AI, Stratechery
- Solving Wordle using Information Theory, 3Blue1Brown
- Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital (Conversations with Tyler E143)
- Lecture 3: Robert Frost (Modern Poetry, Langdon Hammer)
- Living in an Internet Age (Meditations with Zohar S1E1)
- Tips to be a better problem solver, 3Blue1Brown
- Reconcilable Differences #173: The Chicken Project
- 'See Me After Class,' with Jason Snell (The Talk Show E337)
- The Moment with Brian Koppelman: Gillian Jacobs
- Minimum Viable Continuous Delivery, Coding Blocks
- The Tim Ferriss Show: Mark Zuckerberg
- Under the Radar #241: Farewell, Feed Wrangler
- The Tim Ferriss Show: Cal Newport
Blog posts / articles
- Art is for Seeing Evil, Agnes Callard
- A Simple Theory of Culture, Marginal Revolution
- Cocktail party ideas, Dan Luu
- On Not Drinking the Kool-Aid, William Deresiewicz
- On the Bobos, William Deresiewicz
- Covid 6/30/22: Vaccine Update Update, Zvi Mowshowitz
- Why did Comedy Die?, Misha Saul
- Context is that which is scarce, Marginal Revolution
- Things You're Allowed To Do, Milan Cvitkovic
- Culture Shock, Obvious Bicycle
- Digital Advertising in 2022, Stratechery
- Is Old Music Killing New Music?, Ted Gioia
- Data and Definitions, Stratechery
- On the use of a life, Colin Percival
- Academic Publishing and the Death Instinct, Ted Gioia
- Impressions of Every US State, Obvious Bicycle
- Instilling Novel Thought Patterns and Making Your Long-Term Memory Accountable with Anki, Alexey Guzey
Operas about Richard Nixon
- Nixon in China, John Adams