Things I Like
Published: 2018-03-21 • Last updated: 2021-02-19
Table of Contents
A list of things that I like, in no particular order. This is a living document.
# Life, Meaning, Character, and Work
- Joe Rogan:
- JRE #877: Jordan B Peterson 1
- JRE #958: Jordan B Peterson 2
- JRE #1070: Jordan B Peterson 3
- JRE #1139: Jordan B Peterson 4
- JRE #1208: Jordan B Peterson 5
- JRE #975: Sebastian Junger 1
- JRE #1034: Sebastian Junger 2
- JRE #1081: Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
- JRE #1041: Dan Carlin 3
- JRE #1124: Robert Schoch
- JRE #1169: Elon Musk 1
- JRE #1609: Elon Musk 3
- JRE #1278: Kevin Hart
- JRE #1428: Brian Greene
- JRE #1543: Brian Muraresku & Graham Hancock
- JRE #1518: David Choe
- JRE #1577 Terry Virts
- JRE #1234 David Sinclair
- AoM:
- Say yes to life: an accessible primer on Nietzsche’s big ideas
- Are you missing the forbidden city?
- Podcast #78: The myth of following your passion
- Podcast #168: The value of deep work in the age of distraction
- How to really avoid living a life of quiet desperation
- More load on the arch
- You can’t return to Eden
- Against the cult of travel, or what everyone gets wrong about The Hobbit
- The power of conversation: a lesson from CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien
- Got Sisu? Essential guerrilla tactics from the Finnish Winter War
- Want people to hear your message? Let them overhear it
- 30 prompts for reflection on your integrity
- Benjamin Franklin’s 13 virtues
- Get 1% better every day: the kaizen way to self-improvement
- Podcast #358: The stranger in the woods
- Turn your excuses into action: the “do what you can” guide from the blind, teenage leader of the French Resistance
- Podcast #342: Why boredom is good for you
- What do you want to want?
- Be less disciplined in the new year
- Don’t just lead well, follow well
- Your new, New Year’s resolution: harness the life-altering power of Eternal Return
- A Primer on Friedrich Nietzsche: his life and philosophical style
- What can men learn from wolves?
- The power of secrets in a transparent world
- Applying the ethos of the craftsman to our everyday lives
- There is no indespensable man
- Sources of existential angst
- The myth of scarcity: 12 stupidly easy things that’ll set you apart from the pack
- The libraries of famous men: Bruce Lee
- Podcast #479: Becoming a Digital Minimalist
- Against Little Red Hen culture
- Don’t be authentic; be artificial
- Podcast #505: A man’s need for ritual
- Podcast #506: How to improve your speaking voice
- The underrated excitement of moderation
- How not to be disappointed with your friends
- The birthday empathy test
- Podcast #515: Aristotle’s wisdom on living the Good Life
- Tending over weeding
- Plans are useless, but …
- Podcast #541: The art of noticing
- What would my best self do?
- Stop living life “paycheck to paycheck”
- Expect great things
- Don’t fight the last war
- A man’s guide to etiquette
- The weight of worthy work
- Put your Loves in order
- Wry Rules for navigating a flawed universe
- Foundations Magazine:
- The School of Life:
- Cal Newport:
- Have we lost our tolerance for a little boredom?
- Is allowing your child to study while on facebook morally irresponsible?
- Quit social media
- The danger of the dream job delusion
- How to reduce stress and get more done by building an autopilot schedule
- If you’re nervous about quitting your boring job, don’t do it
- Are passions serendipitously discovered or painstakingly constructed?
- Beyond passion: the science of loving what you do
- The myth of the big break
- Would Lincoln have become president if he had email?
- The Steve Martin method: a master comedian’s advice for becoming famous
- The grandmaster in the corner office: what the study of chess experts teaches us about building a remarkable life
- Open offices make you less open
- Jerry Seinfeld’s closed door
- On digital minimalism, loneliness and the joys of true connection
- Reflections on the disconnected life
- Barbell Logic:
- Nassim Taleb: Commencement speech at American University of Beirut
- David Foster Wallace: Commencement speech at Kenyon University
- Isaac Asimov: The relativity of wrong
- Bronnie Ware: Top 5 regrets of the dying
- Paul Graham:
- The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe:
- The Moment with Brian Koppelman:
- How I Built This: 5-Hour Energy: Manoj Bhargava
- Coding Horror: Quantity always trumps quality
- Brainpickings:
- How we spend our days is how we spend our lives: Annie Dillard on choosing presence over productivity
- Friedrich Nietzsche on why a fulfilling life requires embracing rather than running from difficulty
- Seneca on the shortness of life
- Thoreau on hard work, the myth of productivity, and the true measure of meaningful labor
- Leisure, the basis of culture: an obscure German philosopher’s timely 1948 manifesto for reclaiming our human dignity in a culture of workaholism
- 20-year-old Hunter S. Thompson’s surprisingly sage advice on how to find your purpose and live a meaningful life
- Young Tolstoy’s diaries: time, moral development, and the search for self
- 10 learnings from 10 years of brain pickings
- Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
- Frugalwoods: How I let go of caring what people think
- PragerU: Fix yourself
- Dr. Jordan Peterson:
- Michael Shermer:
- The Rubin Report:
- Deep South Ventures:
- What would you do?
- Dr. Jordan Peterson: Psychological significance of the biblical stories series:
- Introduction to the idea of God
- Genesis: chaos and order
- God and the hierarchy of authority
- Adam and Eve: self-consciousness, evil, and death
- Cain and Abel: the hostile brothers
- The psychology of the flood
- Walking with God: Noah and the flood
- The phenomenology of the divine
- The call to Abraham
- Abraham: father of nations
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- The great sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac
- Jacob’s ladder
- Jacob: wrestling with God
- Jacob and the coat of many colors
- The death and resurrection of Christ: a commentary in five parts
- AoM: Soul training series:
- AvE:
# Strength Training
- Mark Rippetoe:
- Matt Reynolds: Barbell Safety
- Barbell Logic: Episode #27: Embracing the grind
- Andy Baker: Basically any article or video by him
- Alan Thrall:
- Greg Nuckols:
- Dan John: Minimalist training
- AoM:
- Beast Skills: Tutorials
- Joe Rogan: JRE #989: Dorian Yates
- Barbell medicine: 3 doctors respond to CrossFit’s Instagram Post: Coke, health, and orthorexia
- The JuggLife:
- Jonathon Sullivan: Barbell training is big medicine
# Manhood
- Roy Baumeister: Is there anything good about men?
- AoM: Manhood series:
- AoM:
# Theology and Evolution
- C.S. Lewis:
- Sarah Coakley:
- BioLogos: common questions
- How is BioLogos different from Evolutionism, Intelligent Design, and Creationism?
- Why should Christians consider evolutionary creation?
- Are science and Christianity at war?
- Can science and Scripture be reconciled?
- How have Christians responded to Darwin’s “Origin of Species”?
- What is evolution?
- What is the evidence for evolution?
- Is evolution a “theory in crisis”?
- How are the ages of the Earth and universe calculated?
- Can evolution generate new information?
- What does the fossil record show?
- How can evolution account for the complexity of life on Earth today?
- Does thermodynamics disprove evolution?
- How did life begin?
- Does the Cambrian Explosion pose a challenge to evolution?
- Is historical science reliable?
- How should we interpret the Bible?
- How long are the days of Genesis 1?
- How was the Genesis account of creation interpreted before Darwin?
- How should we interpret the Genesis flood account?
- Is Genesis real history?
- Does modern science make miracles impossible?
- Are gaps in scientific knowledge evidence for God?
- What do “fine-tuning” and the “multiverse” say about God?
- On what grounds can one claim that the Christian God is the creator?
- What created God?
- Were Adam and Eve historical figures?
- What is the genetic evidence for human evolution?
- How could humans have evolved and still be in the “Image of God”?
- Did death occur before the Fall?
- The Liturgists Podcast
- If the world began again, would life as we know it exist?
# Money and Frugality
- Frugalwoods:
- Dave Ramsey:
- Foundations Magazine: Elbert Hubbard: Let thrift be your ruling habit
- Mr. Money Mustache:
- Betterment:
- Bogleheads: Investment philosophy
- William Bernstein: If You Can
- Gates Notes: Warren Buffett’s best investment
- How I Built This:
- Stuart Diamond: Getting More: How you can negotiate to succeed in work and life
- DHH: The day I became a millionaire
- Reddit personal finance:
# Mental Resilience
- AoM: Depression series:
- Leashing the black dog: my struggle with depression
- Leashing the black dog: the history of depression
- Leashing the black dog: what causes depression?
- Are you depressed? The symptoms of male melancholy
- A realistic, encouraging, compassionate, no-nonsense, research-backed, action-oriented guidebook to managing your depression
- Jordan B Peterson: Quora answers:
- Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability
- Mr. Money Mustache: How big is your circle of control?
- Invisibilia:
- Jennifer Sowle: The Everything Guide to Codependency
- David Puder and Amul Shah: The prescription of strength training for treating depression and optimizing cognitive performance
- AoM: Podcast #440: The 3 great untruths that are setting up a generation for failure
# Relationships
- Esther Perel: Where should we begin?
- AoM: Relationship Bank Account series
- AoM:
- Patricia McGerr: Johnny Lingo’s eight-cow wife
- Smart marriages: Marriage quotes
- How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations
- Dax Shepard, Armchair Expert:
- When you get home to your spouse, put a smile on. It doesn’t matter how crummy your day went
# Personality
- 16 personalities
- Understand myself
- The SAPA project
- Personality Hacker:
- Typology: Episode #17: Take five! A panel of 5s with Lori Chaffer, Kenny Benge, and Joel Miller
# Tools
- Strength standards
- TDEE calculator
- Self authoring
- Personal capital
- Dave Ramsey investment calculator
# Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fun
- Isaac Asimov: The last question
- Arthur Clarke: The star
- Unexplained:
- 2AM: The smiling man
- S Town
- Harry Potter
- Perry Bible Fellowship Comics
- xkcd
- Ether podcast by Tricia and Chris Tollins
- Dax Shepard, Armchair Expert:
- True facts by zefrank1:
# Fables and Fairy Tales
# Nature
- Planet Earth:
- Alone in the Wilderness
- Microcosmos
- Ask a Mathematician / Ask a Physicist:
# Political
- The political compass test
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr: Harrison Bergeron
- Jordan B Peterson:
- Camille Paglia: Modern times
- An incendiary discussion at Ryerson U
- Jordan Peterson’s Rules for Life with Richard Fidler
- Lafayette College – The Mill Series
- Warren Farrell – The absolute necessity of fathers
- Australia’s John Anderson & Dr. Jordan B Peterson: In Conversation
- The Great Ideological Lie of Diversity
- Joe Rogan:
- More Perfect: Citizens United
- AoM: Podcast #334: When violence is the answer
- Jack Donovan: Violence is golden
- The Rubin Report: Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro
- PragerU: Was the civil war about slavery?
- Rebel Wisdom:
# Art and Photography
- Wikimedia commons:
- Simon Stålenhag
- John James Audubon
- Alessandro Sanna
- Dawid Planeta
- Zdzisław Beksiński
# Films and TV Shows
- The Siege of Jadotville
- The Big Short
- The Accountant
- Unbroken
- Daredevil
- Gladiator
- Batman Begins
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
- Wonder Woman
- The Avengers
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Captain America: Civil War
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Junkyard Wars
- Survivorman
- How It’s Made
- Never Back Down
- The Prestige
- Shot Caller
- Cloud Atlas
- Parenthood
- This Is Us
- Moana
- The Incredibles
- The Incredibles 2
- The Land Before Time
- Courage the Cowardly Dog
- Samurai Jack
- Wallace and Gromit
- Chicken Run
- Looney Tunes
- Justice League (TV series)
- A Goofy Movie
- Gumby
- The Book of Eli
- Fury
- Old Yeller
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
- Braveheart
- Law Abiding Citizen
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- District 9
- Interstellar
- The Martian
- World War Z
- Good Will Hunting
- The Age of Adaline
- True Detective (season 1)
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- 9
- Elysium
- The Bourne Identity
- The Bourne Supremacy
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- The Last Samurai
- Nightcrawler
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Spectral
- Ozark
- The Cloverfield Paradox
- August Rush
- A Quiet Place
- The Hundred-Foot Journey
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Hitch
- The Lost City of Z
- Spotlight
- The Fundamentals of Caring
- Father of the Year
- The Ritual
- Extinction
- The Sinner
- Whiplash
- Dracula Untold
- Upgrade
- Room
- Holes
- Bird Box
- Avengers: Endgame
- Dark
- Big Little Lies
- Nate Bargatze: The Tennessee Kid
- The Boys
- The Standups: Beth Stelling
- Joe Rogan: Strange Times
- The Departed
- The Mandalorian
- The Witcher
- Dr. Seuss' The Grinch
- Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America
- The Pharmacist
- The Other Guys
- Castlevania
- Little Fires Everywhere
- Extraction
- Inception
- Into the Grand Canyon
- The Devil All the Time
- Blood of Zeus
- Trash Truck
- Mindhunter
- The Polar Express
- The Midnight Sky
- Surviving Death: Episode 1: Near-Death Experiences
- Downton Abbey
# Video Games
- Arcade:
- Atari:
- PC:
- NES: Duck Hunt
- SNES:
- Nintendo 64:
- Gameboy Advance:
- PlayStation:
- PlayStation 2:
- Xbox:
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Star Wars: Republic Commando
- Star Wars: Battlefront
- Star Wars: Battlefront II
- Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
- SSX 3
- Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath
- ATV Quad Power Racing 2
- Burnout 3: Takedown
- Crash Nitro Kart
- MechAssault
- Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
- NCAA Football 07
- NASCAR 07
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
- NBA Street Vol. 2
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
- Spider-Man
- The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
- Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX 2
- Xbox 360:
- iOS: Clash Royale