All Timers / Influences

a.k.a. things I’ll happily shill to basically anyone

This is a non-exhaustive list of shit that I think is really good. I have forcefully recommended all of this stuff to many people.

Categories:

Text/Internet

Anatomy of Friendship

The Resilience of Costco and Costco Capitalism

How To Not Kill Yourself

Why Men Love War

Dan Harmon: Story Circles

I, Pencil

Why Not Socialism?

I Can Tolerate Anything But The Outgroup

Tynan's Blog

Liminal Index

Patio on Salary Negotiation

Palahniuk: Guts

Ribbonfarm (Maya Millennial, Gervais Principle, Gardens/Rituals by Sarah Perry, Tragedy of Wiio’s Law)

Samin Nosrat: Salt Fat Acid Heat

James Fadiman: Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide

Sasha Shulgin: PIHKAL

DFW (Consider the Lobster, Supposedly Fun Thing, The Depressed Person, Federer, Brief Interviews w/Hideous Men, etc.)

Van Neistat Zines

The Most Dangerous Writing App - great for stream-of-consciousness journaling

Libgen - free books

r/Vindicta - hot girl autism

Ratingraph - great site for movie and TV show ratings

Shroomery - OG mushroom cultivation forums

Erowid

Sci-Hub - free academic publications

YIFY torrents

MyFlixer - watch anything for free

Aurlien - Full screen color picker

Audio

David Choe on Joe Rogan (Choe is the best podcast guest, he also has excellent interviews with Rainn Wilson, David Chang, Steve-O, and Howard Stern)

MFM podcast - money, business, hustling

Pete Holmes Podcast - Millennial comedians talk show biz and get chummy

Bill Hader on Conan O'Brian Podcast - best episode of a generally quite good podcast

Jack Johnson Yellow Album - housekeeping music

Green Day American Idiot - nostalgia

Getz/Gilberto - relaxation

Vulfpeck - maximum funk

Daft Punk - groovy legends

The Strokes: Is This It

Parcels studio session

Maverick City Revelation 19:1

Sung Lee YouTube covers

Biko's Manna covers

Sunday Service

Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas

Video

The Midnight Gospel (especially Mouse of Silver)

Lord of the Rings

Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight

Godfather Trilogy

Girl movies trilogy: Bridesmaids, Mean Girls, Devil Wears Prada

ATLA

Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

Hamilton’s Pharmacopoeia

Letterkenny

The Office

Chungking Express

Huang’s World

Shrek 2

Girls

My Dinner With Andre

The Choe Show

The Usual Suspects

A Separation

RRR

Y Tu Mama También

A Separation

Community

Atlanta

Channel 5 Youtube

Thinking Basketball Youtube

Jacques Pepin Youtube

Humor

Aaron Chen

Daniel Simonsen

Shane Gillis

Chappelle

Middleditch and Schwartz

Activities

Powerlifting

Basketball

Rock climbing

Kettlebells

Vipassana

Psychedelics

Cooking

Ecstatic Dance

Salsa Dancing

Regular old club dancing