2022 in lists

A recap of my year, done in list format. Bold means strong recommendation. There is probably some recency bias in some of these.

Places I went

• Miami (Jan)

• Austin (Jan)

• New York City (Mar)

• Los Angeles (Mar)

• Palm Springs (Mar)

• Austin, again (May)

• Lisbon (May, Jun)

• New York City, again (July)

• Austin, again (Aug)

• Boston (Sep)

• Austin, again wtf (Nov)

• New York City, again (Dec)

• Caribbean (Dec)

Book I read

• The Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi

• Open by Andre Agassi

• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis

• Anything You Want by Derek Sivers

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

• Yearbook by Seth Rogen

• God’s Debris by Scott Adams

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel (reread)

• Exhalation by Ted Chiang

• Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman

• The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff andJonathan Haidt

• Cumulus by Eliot Peper

• Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

• The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

• We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu

• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

• My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

• The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker

Movies I watched

• Spider-Man: No Way Home, dir. Jon Watts

• Another Round, dir. Thomas Vinterberg

• Coherence, dir. James Ward Byrkit

• The Last Duel, dir. Ridley Scott

• Begin Again, dir. John Carney

• The Forgotten Battle, dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.

• King’s Man, dir. Matthew Vaughn

• Always Be My Maybe, dir. Nahnatchka Khan

• Batman, dir. Matt Reeves

• The Hundred-Foot Journey, dir. Lasse Hallström (rewatch)

• Everything Everywhere All at Once, dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

• Uncharted, dir. Ruben Fleischer

• Sicario, dir. Denis Villeneuve (rewatch)

• Sicario: Day Of The Soldado, dir. Stefano Sollima

• Palm Springs, dir. Max Barbakow (rewatch)

• World War Z, dir. Marc Forster

• Creed, dir. Ryan Coogler

• Creed II, dir. Steven Caple Jr.

• Hustle, dir. Jeremiah Zagar

• Triple Frontier, dir. JC Chandor

• Shinjuku Incident, dir. Derek Yee

• Spiderhead, dir. Joseph Kosinski

• Moneyball, dir. Bennett Miller (rewatch)

• The Gray Man, dir. Russo Brothers

• Wrath of Man, dir. Guy Ritchie

• Bullet Train, David Leitch

• Coin, dir. Greg Kohs

• 38 at the Garden, Frank Chi

Podcast episodes I starred

• Pod of Jake, “#104 - HASEEB QURESHI”

• All-in, E93

• My First Million, “Sara's List Hostile Takeover and The App that Made $1M In Ten Days”

• Acquired, “Benchmark Capital”

• The Trojan Horse Affair, the whole series

• Serial, seasons 1 and 3

Blog posts I favorited

• Hyperstructures by Jacob

• intellectual malleability by Isabel Hazan

• Violence and the Sacred: College as an incubator of Girardian terror by Dan Wang

• Tweets, Awkward Suits, and Hustle by Blake Robbins

• How To Make Friends 2.0 by Nikhil Krishnan

• Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by Sahil Lavingia

• Making energy too cheap to meter by Benjamin Reinhardt

• Musings by Nick Chow

• The Families We Choose by Helena Fitzgerald

• commitments by Molly Mielke

• why is modern dating so hard? by Isabel Hazan

• coming full circle by Nancy Zuo

• "am I wasting my 20s?" by Nix

• Fuck Your Miracle Year by Roger’s Bacon

• so how was visiting schools? by Jessica Dai

• Tokengated Commerce by Packy McCormick and Alex Danco

• How Tech Hype is Ruining College Students in Tech by Sarvasv Kulpati

• A Speech I would Like To Give Undergrads by Judah

Songs on repeat

• “Rainbow” by Casey Musgraves

• “Magnolia” by Laufey

• “Japanese Denim” by Daniel Caesar

• All of Benson Boone’s songs

• “The Way I Talk” by Morgan Wallen

• “Sand In My Boots” by Morgan Wallen

• “Are You Satisfied?” by MARINA

• “Waves” by Fiji Blue

• “Only Love Can Hurt Like This” by Paloma Faith

• “Angeleyes” by ABBA

• “To a T” by Ryan Hurd

• “Nights” by Frank Ocean