Recommendations
A few things worth your time, with a short note on why.
Articles 3
The Tail End — Wait But Why
A sobering post on staying present — don't forget to enjoy life as best you can, while you can.
Books 6
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Developer's Hegemony — Erik Dietrich
A perspective-shifting read for software engineers, but it applies to knowledge workers in general in the modern age.
Flatland — Edwin Abbott
Short, but it captures the tension between individual experience and societal norms, expectations, and "common knowledge" better than most things twice its length.
Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm — George Orwell
1984 — George Orwell
The Lessons of History — Will & Ariel Durant
Comics 1
Calvin and Hobbes
Games 8
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Fantastic production and supply-chain game set in the 1800s.
An amazing source of historical and strategic learning.
Beautiful space immersion. Expansive.
Great space exploration.
Solid medieval first-person sim, more casual.
Solid medieval first-person sim, more combat-focused.
Solid medieval top-down sim.
Well-done ancient-era tribal sim, top-down.
Movies 41
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Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
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Hope and Glory (1987)
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Far and Away (1992)
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A Knight's Tale (2001)
Good (2008) — with Viggo Mortensen
Fired Up! (2009)
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Truman Show (1998)
In Bruges (2008)
October Sky (1999)
Margin Call (2011)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
The Game (1997)
The Firm (1993)
Chef (2014)
Stardust (2007)
Little Women (2019)
Idlewild (2006)
Plays 1
The Importance of Being Earnest
Poems 10
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Invictus — William Ernest Henley
If — Rudyard Kipling
Auguries of Innocence — William Blake
The Raven — Edgar Allan Poe
Ozymandias — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Road Not Taken — Robert Frost
Annabel Lee — Edgar Allan Poe
The Tyger — William Blake
The Female of the Species — Rudyard Kipling
All the World's a Stage — William Shakespeare
Restaurants 6
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Casper Fermentables (Austin, TX)
Fantastic sourdough bakery and bagel shop.
Stouthaus Coffee (Austin, TX)
Great coffee and a solid remote-work spot, right next to Casper Fermentables.
Golden Hour Cafe (Austin, TX)
Great coffee, a good remote-work spot, solid food, and a wine bar in the evening.
Spokesman — coffee/bar
Good atmosphere — occasional grind/roasts fill the air with coffee aromas.
Wham Bam Bagels — food truck
Across the street from Spokesman. Solid bagels.
Great food, traditional pub atmosphere.
Tools / Software 2
Great note-taking app — local-first and private.
A solid browser. Built on Firefox but with more modern features.
TV Shows 11
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Fun, silly, sitcom detective show.
Dark, ethereal, dreamy.
The 10th Kingdom (2000, mini-series)