Stuff I highly recommend

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Books

Some of the books that I enjoyed immensely:

Poor Charlie's Almanack; the beginning of infinity: how to lie with statistics; bad science; Economics in one lesson; Antifragile; The mind body problem by Rebecca Goldstein; Something incredibly wonderful happens by K.C Cole; How to live by Derek Sivers; Benjamin Franklin: an american life; True recall: My unbelievably true life story; The psychology of money; Turtles all the way down; My name is red; A strangeness in my mind; Einstein: his life and universe; The kite runner; Gölgesizler(not available in english)

More here: Library

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TV series

The leftovers (2014); The originals(2013); Downton Abbey; Misfits (2009); Nathan for you; The life and times of Tim; Inside No.9; Superjail(2007); the shivering truth(2018); Undone(2019); Ugly Americans (2010); Blackadder(1986); A bit of Fry and Laury(1987) Futurama(1999)

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Youtube

The youtube channels below are so close to my heart:

CGP Grey; the Nerdwriter; Vsauce; Vlogbrothers; Smarter everyday; every frame a painting.

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Documentaries

Grizzly man (2005)
Senna(2010)
The salt of the earth(2014)
Cosmos: A spacetime odyssey
Planet earth II (2016)
Indie game(2012)
Kumare(2011)
Jiro dreams of sushi
Bill Cunnigham: New York(2010)
The great hack
Three Identical Strangers
The Up series
Cave of Forgotten dreams
Free Solo
The story of India (2007)
Abstract: the art of design
The social dilemma
Jodorowsky's Dune
Samsara
The farthest(2017)
Tower(2016)
The century of the self
Dear Zachary
Alive inside: A story of music and memory (2014)
BBC: the pleasure of finding things out
BBC: the fantastic Mr Feynman
Speilberg 2017
The kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Living in the age of Airplanes(2015)
Notes on Blindness
Pina (2011)
Inside Bill's brain: Decoding Bill Gates
Bitter lake (2015)
Do you trust this computer
Tim's vermeer(2013)
The price of everything
Alphago
Miss Americana
How buildings learn (1997)
the dissident
Between the folds (2008)
Vitamania: the sense and nonsense of vitamins (2019)
Becoming Warren buffet
Baraka(1992)
The work(2017)
David Attenbourough: A life on our planet
An inconvenient truth
This film is not yet rated
Koyaanisqatsi(1982)
We live in public (2009)
Life in a day (2011)
The price of everything
Merchants of doubt
Man with a movie camera (1929)
The last man on the moon
The crash reel(2013)
Mission control: the unsung heroes of Appolo (2017)
Jim and Andy: the great beyond(2017)
Turn every page: the adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Icarus
The true cost (2015)
Tony Robbins: I am not your guru(2016)
Transcendent man (2009)
Speedcubers
Salam (2018)
The Rise Of Jordan Peterson
Fyre (2019)
Comedian (2002)
The human face (2001)
For Sama (2019)
One child nation (2019)
Foosballers
One strange Rock (2018)
White light/Black light: the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Exit through the gift shop (2010)
Man on wire (2008)
The secret life of the cruise (2018)
Chasing happiness (2019)
the business of being born
who killed the electric car
Revenge of the electric car
looking for Richard (1996)
Blackfish(2013)
Sherpa(2015)
Helvetica
Folklore
On any Sunday (1971)
Buck(2011)
The red pill (2016)
Capital in the 21st century (2019)
Apollo 11
Aliens of the deep ( 2005)
Into eternity: A film for the future(2010)
Chernobyl(2019)
Our planet (2019)
Blue planet II (2017)
Project Nim (2011)
world's biggest and baddest bugs( 2009)
Return to space(2022)
Benjamin Franklin (2022)
We work: or the making and breaking of a 47 billion unicorn (2021)
Mike Wallace is here
Hypernormalisation
20,000 days on earth (2014)
Maidentrip (2013)
The triumph of the will(1935)
Homecoming: A film by Beyonce(2019)
David Bowie: the last 5 years
Four hours at the capitol (2021)

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movies

Movies I like:

Being John Malkovich
Run Lola Run
Monty Pyton and the holy grail(1975)
The Return(2003)
Force Majeur
Departures(2008)
Atonement
Enter the void(2009)
Angst(1983)
Battle Royale(2000)
Baahubali2: The conclusion(2017)
The man from earth(2007)
A moment to remember(2004)
The birds(1963)
Planet of the apes (1963)
Troy(2003)
A history of Violence(2005)
Dancer in the Dark(2000)
before sunrise(1995)
watchtower(2012)
The darjeeling limited(2007)
Pacific rim(2013)
A Taxi driver(2017)
the insult(2017)
Sorry to bother you(2018)
Story of Ricky(1991)
Winter sleep(2014)
S1mOne(2002)
12 anngry men
The pledge(2001)
I,tonya(2017)
Big Eyes(2014)
Children of heaven(1997)
Frances Ha(2012)
Dreams(1990)
The secret world of Arrietty
The one I love(2014)
Hardware(1990)
Sonbahar/Autumn(2008)
The sunset limited(2011)
Wild Tales(2014)
The bandit(1996)
The iron Giant(1999)
Time to hunt(2020)
The small Town(1997)
District 9 (2009)
Journey to Agartha(2011)
The breakfast club(1985)
Timelapse(2014)
NightCrawler
The Raid:redemption(2016)
Carnage(2011)
Pleasantville(1998)
Spirited Away
Before we go(2014)
Get out(2017)
Nausicca of the valley of wind
Mommo(2009)
Phonebooth(2002)
Hero(2002)
Me,Earl, and the Dying girl(2015)
Waking life(2001)
Gattaca(1997)
Sound of metal(2019)
The best Offer(2013)
Captain Fantastic
A Promising young woman(2020)
A clockwork Orange(1971)
Pretty Woman(1990)
Memento(2000)
Lost in Translation(2003)
Capernaum(2018)
Speed(1994)
A tale of two sisters
The princess and the warrior(2000)
Nocturnal Animals
Knives out(2019)
Galaxy Quest(1999)
Mr. Nobody(2009)
The game(1997)
Your Name(2016)
Blackadder(1982-1983)
Legends of the fall(1994)
Moneyball(2011)
The big Short(2015)
The thing(1982)
The Apartment
Limitless(2011)
Requiem for a dream
Full metal Jacket(1987)
El cuerpo/the body (2012)
Office space(1999)
Good will hunting
Under siege(1992)
The scent of a woman
Big(1988)
Rise of the planet of the Apes(2011)
The painted veil(2006)
Once upon a time in Anatolia(2011)
the sticky fingers of time(1997)
The art of racing in the rain(2019)
Midnight in Paris(2011)
Winter Sleep(2014)

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Podcasts

I have been traveling a lot so I had the chance to listen to a ton of podcasts. Here are my absolute favorites (listened to pretty much every single episode):

Convos with Tyler; Econtalk, the social radars; The morgan housel podcast; Plain English with Derek Thompson; Founders; Indie Hackers; The Ezra Klein show; Radiolab; Oddlots.

Honorable mentions( these are really good but I don't listen to every single episode, only the ones that pique my interest):

Talks at google; 99% invisible; This American life; Making sense; MOZ; ALL-IN pod; Planet money; Honestly with Bari Weiss; In good company with Nicolai Tangen; Flightless bird

I collect the eps I enjoy in the playlist below:

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miscellaneous

Best website on the internet: https://gwern.net/

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Music

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