︎Books

Fiction

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  

• Empathy Exams by Lesley Jamison

• Exhalation by Ted Chiang

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

• The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

Nonfiction

• Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkel

• Everything I Need I Get from You by Kaitlyn Tiffany

• The Minto Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto

• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• Dataclysm by Christian Rudder

• Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible by Lisa Zunshine

• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

• The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky

• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

• The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny by William Strauss & Neil Howe

︎Articles

• Rediscovering Desire in a Panopticon of Virtual Pleasures by Dean Kissick

• On Availability Cascades by Marc Andreessen

• Why TV Has Resisted Disruption by Ben Thompson

• Hollywood on Strike by Ben Thompson

• The Uncanny Valley: The Original Essay by Masahiro Mori

• Squad Wealth by Sam Hart, Toby Shorin & Laura Lotti

• The Age of Instagram Face: How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a Single, cyborgian look by Jia Tolentino

• Quality’ Is a Distraction - If It Exists at All (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 6) by Matthew Ball

• We live in the era of mids by Jonah & Erin 

• The next big thing will start out looking like a toy by cdixon 

• The Great Online Game: How to Win the Internet by Packy McCormick

︎Film + TV

Movies

• Her by Spike Jonze

• The Truman Show

• Los Relatos Salvajes

• Moonrise Kingdom

• Almost Famous

• Midnight in Paris

• Ratatouille

TV

• Show about the Show (Season 1)

• Nathan for You (Fake Dating Reality TV Show Part 1 and Part 2)

• Love, Death, and Robots (Zima Blue episode)

• Black Mirror (Fifteen Million Merits episode)

• How to with John Wilson (Scaffolding episode)

• MTV’s Next

• Sex and the City