My Favorite Things

Articles:

• All of Haley Nahman’s Maybe Baby weekly newsletter
• Chasing a Job with Purpose
• I Miss It All: running, friends, and tenderness
• The Crane Wife: solo travel, leaving a draining relationship
• The Sucker, The Sucker!: octopi

Books:

• Cities
  • From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement
  • The Death and Life of American Cities
  • The Power Broker
• Environment/Climate
  • All We Can Save
  • Braiding Sweetgrass
  • Parable of the Sower
  • The Drawdown
  • The Ministry for the Future
  • The Sense of Wonder
  • This Changes Everything
  • Weather
• Finance
  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich
  • Quit Like a Millionaire
  • The Simple Path to Wealth
• Love and Friendships
  • Attached
  • Breakup Bootcamp
  • The Art of Gathering
  • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
  • Tiny Beautiful Things
  • Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
  • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
• Self-Help
  • Digital Minimalism
  • Designing Your Life
  • Do What You Love and Other Lies About Success and Happiness + Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
  • Nonviolent Communication
  • Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
  • The Defining Decade
  • The Four Agreements
  • The Gift of Fear: Survival Skills that Protect Us From Violence
• Spirituality
  • Inner Engineering
  • The Power of Now
  • Women Who Run With the Wolves
  • When Half is Whole
  • When Things Fall Apart (Pema Chodron)
• Uncategorized Fiction/Nonfiction Favs:
  • A Tale for the Time Being
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad
  • Blockchain Chicken Farm
  • Born to Run
  • Crying in H Mart
  • Dune
  • Infinite Jest
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
  • Milk Fed
  • Nomadland
  • The Last Samurai
  • The Idiot / Either/Or by Elif Batuman
  • The Paper Menagerie (Ken Liu)
  • Why Fish Don’t Exist

Places (including some Google Maps lists):

• Costa Brava region of Spain
• Oaxaca City, Mexico: spent 5 weeks here
• Ravello and Capri, in the Amalfi Coast of Italy
• San Francisco, USA: lived here on and off in 2019-2022

Podcasts:

• Friend Crush: this podcast’s host Amber Akilla is a rad Australian born Chinese DJ who I originally found on TikTok. She’s taught me so much about friend breakups, practicing love, and having high standards.
• My Climate Journey: Deep-dive conversations with climate, science, and technology leaders.
• The Ezra Klein Show: Loved this episode on gamification of life that Megha recommended
• The Rich Roll Podcast: my pal Veronica Kim put me onto this. Rich is a “vegan ultra-endurance athlete” and amazing interviewer, and his episodes have taught me about changing my brain, the gut microbiome, and sleep as a superpower.

Youtube (YT) & TikTok (TT):

• Alexander Dishes (YT): just a guy washing some dishes
• Bird Slut: my bird-oriented TT hehe
• Hitomi Mochizuki (YT)
• Leah’s Fieldnotes (YT)
• Malama Life (YT)
• Sigh Swoon (TT)