My room
Opening the room
Books
The bookcase
- Thinking in BetsAnnie Duke
A former poker player on deciding with incomplete information, and on not judging a decision by how it turned out.
See the book (opens in a new window) - Clean ArchitectureRobert C. Martin
Where to draw the boundaries of a system so it stays cheap to change.
See the book (opens in a new window) - The Almanack of Naval RavikantEric Jorgenson
Naval Ravikant's tweets, podcasts and interviews on wealth and happiness.
See the book (opens in a new window) - Poor Charlie's AlmanackCharles Munger
Charlie Munger's talks, his mental models, and a checklist for deciding.
See the book (opens in a new window) - The Elements of InvestingBurton Malkiel and Charles Ellis
Saving, indexing and leaving it alone, in a very short book.
See the book (opens in a new window) - The Art of WarSun Tzu
An ancient Chinese treatise on strategy in thirteen chapters, attributed to the general Sun Tzu.
See the book (opens in a new window) - 1984George Orwell
Orwell's 1949 novel: a man who rewrites history for the Party, and the surveillance state he secretly rebels against.
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Music
The record crate
- Walking with ElephantsTen Walls · 2014
A house track by Lithuanian producer Ten Walls. It reached No. 6 on the UK singles chart.
Listen (opens in a new window) - PizzaMartin Garrix · 2017
A progressive house single, first played as the closing track of his Tomorrowland 2017 set.
Listen (opens in a new window) - AviciiArtist
Tim Bergling (1989–2018), the Swedish DJ and producer behind Levels and Wake Me Up.
Listen (opens in a new window) - Lana Del ReyArtist
American singer-songwriter who broke through with Born to Die in 2012.
Listen (opens in a new window) - Frank SinatraArtist
American singer, conductor and actor (1915–1998).
Listen (opens in a new window) - OasisArtist
Manchester band of brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, formed in 1991. Their debut, Definitely Maybe, came out in 1994.
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Films
The projector and its cans
- InterstellarChristopher Nolan · 2014
Astronauts travel through a wormhole to find a new home as a failing Earth nears collapse.
About the film (opens in a new window) - The Lord of the RingsPeter Jackson · 2001–2003
Three films from Tolkien's novel, shot at the same time in New Zealand.
About the film (opens in a new window) - Margin CallJ. C. Chandor · 2011
Twenty-four hours inside a Wall Street bank that finds out its mortgage holdings could sink it, as the 2008 crisis begins.
About the film (opens in a new window) - The Big ShortAdam McKay · 2015
From Michael Lewis's book: the investors who saw the US housing bubble coming and bet against it.
About the film (opens in a new window) - The Dark Knight TrilogyChristopher Nolan · 2005–2012
Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.
About the film (opens in a new window) - Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryGareth Edwards · 2016
The rebels who steal the plans for the Empire's superweapon, just before the 1977 Star Wars.
About the film (opens in a new window) - OppenheimerChristopher Nolan · 2023
The physicist who led Los Alamos through the first atomic bombs, and his 1954 security hearing.
About the film (opens in a new window) - The Fast and the FuriousRob Cohen · 2001
An undercover police officer joins a crew of Los Angeles street racers. The first of the series.
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TV
The tapes under the set
- True Detective, season 1Nic Pizzolatto · 2014
Two Louisiana detectives look back at a 1995 murder when new evidence reopens it in 2012.
About the show (opens in a new window) - ShogunRachel Kondo and Justin Marks · 2024
An English sailor and a Japanese lord in Japan in 1600, from James Clavell's novel.
About the show (opens in a new window) - The WireDavid Simon · 2002–2008
Baltimore, seen through its drug trade, port, city government, schools and newspaper.
About the show (opens in a new window) - The SopranosDavid Chase · 1999–2007
A New Jersey mob boss starts seeing a psychiatrist.
About the show (opens in a new window) - DarkBaran bo Odar and Jantje Friese · 2017–2020
Children vanish in a German town, and four families find a time-travel conspiracy across generations.
About the show (opens in a new window) - ChernobylCraig Mazin · 2019
The 1986 nuclear disaster and the response to it, in five episodes.
About the show (opens in a new window) - Better Call SaulVince Gilligan and Peter Gould · 2015–2022
How con artist Jimmy McGill becomes the lawyer Saul Goodman. A prequel to Breaking Bad.
About the show (opens in a new window) - SuccessionJesse Armstrong · 2018–2023
The Roy family fights over control of their media company as its founder's health fails.
About the show (opens in a new window) - Top GearClarkson, Hammond and May · 2002–2015
The BBC's motoring show, in the years Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May presented it.
About the show (opens in a new window) - The Grand TourClarkson, Hammond and May · 2016–2024
The same three, with producer Andy Wilman, after leaving the BBC. On Amazon Prime Video.
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Cars
The toys on the tall table
- McLaren MP4/4McLaren · 1988
With Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost it won 15 of the 16 races of 1988.
About the car (opens in a new window) - Ferrari F40Ferrari · 1987
Built for Ferrari's 40th anniversary, and the last Ferrari Enzo Ferrari approved himself.
About the car (opens in a new window) - Mercedes-AMG GT RMercedes-AMG · 2016
Developed at the Nürburgring. Its matte AMG Green Hell Magno paint is named after the Nordschleife's nickname.
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Games
The game shelf
- Elden RingFromSoftware
A fantasy action RPG set in the Lands Between.
About the game (opens in a new window) - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Sandfall Interactive
A turn-based RPG with real-time combat mechanics.
About the game (opens in a new window) - Rome: Total WarCreative Assembly
Empire building and real-time battles in the ancient world. The original game.
About the game (opens in a new window) - Sea of ThievesRare
A shared-world pirate adventure on the open sea.
About the game (opens in a new window) - Call of Duty 4: Modern WarfareInfinity Ward
The 2007 first-person shooter, with a modern military campaign and multiplayer.
About the game (opens in a new window) - Spartan: Total WarriorCreative Assembly
A 2005 hack-and-slash spin-off of Total War: one Spartan against Rome's invasion of Greece.
About the game (opens in a new window) - Call of Duty: Black Ops IITreyarch
The 2012 first-person shooter, with a branching campaign that moves between the 1980s and 2025.
About the game (opens in a new window) - Battlefield 3DICE
The 2011 first-person shooter, known for large combined-arms battles, up to 64 players on PC.
About the game (opens in a new window) - League of LegendsRiot Games
Not a recommendation. Just where most of the hours went.
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Articles
The board on the wall
- How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with modelsFelix Rieseberg
Four kinds of ambition with a model: speed, altitude, depth and range, and how to get past the first one.
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AI skills
The disks by the computer
- Taste SkillLeonxlnx
Steers coding agents away from generic landing pages and towards professional sites.
Get it (opens in a new window) - security-auditCloudflare
Security guidance and vulnerability review for codebases, APIs and services, run by your agent.
Get it (opens in a new window) - standoutskwzMine
A design skill that makes pages look made rather than generated.
Get it - longtakeskwz, after onetakeMine
Motion videos made entirely in code. Adapted from onetake, free for noncommercial use.
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Services and apps
The phone beside the sofa
- Claude CodeAnthropic
Anthropic's AI coding agent, in the terminal, the IDE, Slack or the web.
Visit (opens in a new window) - TailscaleTailscale
Connects your devices and services across networks with encrypted connections, built on WireGuard.
Visit (opens in a new window) - Hermes AgentNous Research
A free, MIT-licensed AI agent with persistent memory and scheduled tasks, across chat apps and the desktop.
Visit (opens in a new window) - CloudflareCloudflare
A global platform for deploying code, with storage, AI and network services alongside it.
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Not affiliated with any of them.