Things I Like

Published: 2018-03-21 • Last updated: 2021-05-03

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:
- Elbert Hubbard: Initiative and a message to Garcia
- Elbert Hubbard: Get out or get in line
- Wisdom: The interval between the notes
- Bob Welch: If you could see us now, Pop Youngberg
The School of Life:
- In praise of the quiet life
- Why small pleasures are a big deal
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:
- Episode #23: Voluntary hardship
- Episode #26: Training to survive cancer with John Wilson
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 age of the essay
- Life is short
- The acceleration of addictiveness
- The top of my todo List
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe:
- Podcast #2: He had it all
- Podcast #18: The toymaker
- Podcast #30: The demoted deserter
The Moment with Brian Koppelman:
- Andrew Zimmern
- John Grisham
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:
- The master and his emissary: Dr. Iain McGilchrist
- Susan Blackmore – Do we need God to make sense of life?
Michael Shermer:
- Giving the Devil his due: why freedom of inquiry in science and politics is inviolable
- The Evolution-Creationism controversy as a test case in equal time and free speech
Deep South Ventures:
- I sell onions on the internet
What would you do?
- Mother can only afford one meal to share with her family
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:
- Training the soul
- An introduction to the spiritual disciplines
- The spiritual disciplines: study and self-examination
- The spiritual disciplines: solitude and silence
- The spiritual disciplines: simplicity
- The spiritual disciplines: fasting
AvE:
- Summary of every Self-Help Book EVER

Strength Training

Mark Rippetoe:
Matt Reynolds: Barbell Safety
Barbell Logic: Episode #27: Embracing the grind
Andy Baker: Basically any article or video by him
- How to press (overhead…)
- How to deadlift: Starting Strength 5 step deadlift
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:
- Dr. Mike Israetel: Training & nutrition for beginners
- Fitness myths with Dr. Mike Isratel
Jonathon Sullivan: Barbell training is big medicine

Manhood

AoM: Manhood series:
AoM:
- A call for a new strenuous age
- Podcast #335: Exploring archetypes with Jordan B Peterson
Roy Baumeister: Is there anything good about men?

Theology and Evolution

BioLogos: Common Questions
C.S. Lewis:
- Mere Christianity
- The Screwtape Letters
Sarah Coakley:
The Liturgists Podcast

Money and Frugality

Frugalwoods:
Dave Ramsey:
- The 7 baby steps
- The Total Money Makeover
Foundations Magazine: Elbert Hubbard: Let thrift be your ruling habit
Mr. Money Mustache:
Betterment:
- Safety net funds: why traditional advice is wrong
- Long-term returns have a cost, and it’s well worth the price
Bogleheads: Investment philosophy
William Bernstein: If You Can
Gates Notes: Warren Buffett’s best investment
How I Built This:
- Mark Cuban
- Drybar: Alli Webb
Stuart Diamond: Getting More: How you can negotiate to succeed in work and life
DHH: The day I became a millionaire
Reddit personal finance:
- Aren’t you embarrassed?
- Your parents took decades to furnish their house

Mental Resilience

AoM: Depression series:
Jordan B Peterson: Quora answers:
- What are the most valuable things everyone should know?
- Existentialism: how to overcome a compulsive sense of despair?
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
- Why the secret of a happy, successful marriage is treating it like a bank account
- The best ways to fund your relationship bank account
AoM:
- Love is all you need: insights from the longest longitudinal study on men ever conducted
- Marriage isn’t a game of Russian Roulette
Patricia McGerr: Johnny Lingo’s eight-cow wife
How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations
Dax Shepard, Armchair Expert:
- Esther Perel
- John Gottman
When you get home to your spouse, put a smile on. It doesn’t matter how crummy your day went

Personality

Tools

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:
- Bret Weinstein
True facts by zefrank1:

Fables and Fairy Tales

Nature

Planet Earth:
- Planet Earth
- Planet Earth II
Alone in the Wilderness
Microcosmos
Ask a Mathematician / Ask a Physicist:
- Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole? What are we even looking at?

Political

The political compass test
Kurt Vonnegut Jr: Harrison Bergeron
More Perfect: Citizens United
AoM: Podcast #334: When Violence Is the Answer

Art and Photography

Films and TV Shows

Video Games

Arcade:
Atari:
- Pong
- Tanks
- Pitfall!
- Donkey Kong
- Galaga
- Pac-Man
- Tetris
PC:
NES: Duck Hunt
SNES:
Nintendo 64:
Gameboy Advance:
PlayStation:
PlayStation 2:
- Champions of Norrath
- Champions: Return to Arms
Xbox:
Xbox 360:
iOS: Clash Royale