Here I’ve been gathering books, movies and other content which inspired me or I’ve learned a lot from.
Books
- Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen Book by Donald Miller
- Never Split The Difference – Chris Voss
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Influence by Robert Cialdini
- Mind Over Matter: Why Intellectual Capital Is the Chief Source of Wealth by Ron Baker
- Originals by Adam Grant
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Spin Selling by Neil Rackham
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science by Jonathan Haidt
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The Mom Test: How to Talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everybody is lying to you by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker
Podcast episodes
- The Duncan Trussell Family Hour (especially 314: Damien Echols – (via Midnight Gospel)
- Joe Rogan Experience #956 – Guy Ritchie
- 20:VC
- Elements AI
- Unlocking Us
- The Diary Of A CEO by Steven Burnett
- Andrew Huberman
- Joe Rogan Experience #1309 with Naval Ravikant
- Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life, and Leadership (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
- Damien Echols on Midnight Gospel
Movies
- The Boondock Saints
- Baby Driver
- Nobody
- Back To The Future I, II, III
- Birdman
- Fight Club
- Requiem for a Dream
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Kill Bill
- Amores Perros
- Matrix
- Memento
- The Gentlemen
- Rock’n’Rolla
- Whiplash
- Sorry to bother you
- Tick, tick….boom
- Another Round
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
Series
- Black Mirror
- Breaking Bad
- Planet Earth
- River
- Scenes from a Marriag (2021 version)
- The Boys
- The Kaminsky Method
- Westworld
- Old Man
- Ozark
Ted/Conference talks
- We need to talk about injustice by Bryan Stevenson
- The 6 Year Overnight Success by Julie Nolke for TEDxIIITA – brilliant talk on the overnight success mirage
- Fasting For Survival Lecture by Dr Pradip Jamnadas
- 1% Better Each Day by James Clean
- Alain de Botton on Sex
- After a Lifetime of Being Looked At, Supermodel Paulina Porizkova Wants You to Listen
- Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance | Lex Fridman Podcast – on unlocking creativity (not only on psychedelics)
Movies
- The Boondock Saints
- Baby Driver
- Nobody
- Back To The Future I, II, III
- Birdman
- Fight Club
- Requiem for a Dream
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Kill Bill
- Amores Perros
- Matrix
- Memento
- The Gentlemen
- Rock’n’Rolla
- Whiplash
- Sorry to bother you
- Tick, tick….boom
- Another Round
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
Series
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- Black Mirror
- Breaking Bad
- Planet Earth
- River
- Scenes from a Marriage (2021 version)
- The Boys
- The Kaminsky Method
- Westworld
- Old Man
- Ozark
Best places I’ve been and why
- Ilha Grande; Brazil (wild nature, no cars)
- Baalbeck; Lebanon (ruins!)
- Fernando De Noronha; Brazil (swimming with sharks)
- Nara, Japan (public baths – onsen, especially Yurara-no-yu)
- Echizen; Japan (drinking sake with sushi masters in a small local izakaya)
- Pozo Negro, Fuerteventura (very secluded, while living and working in a van for a month)
- Paje, Zanzbiar (this moonlight and thousands of white crabs moving around – spooky)
- Koh Chang, Thailand (wild nature, sunsets)
- Koh Tao, Thailand (wild nature, sunsets)
- Cartagena, Columbia
- Ikaria, Greece
- Naxos, Greece
- Diani, Kenya
- Napoli, Italy (its people, food)
- London – my home
- Panama, San Blas Islands
Favourite words and concepts
- Kaizen
- Kintsugi
- Shuhari
- Transcendence
- Mischievous