Here is another roundup of the best reads, podcasts, internet people + projects, and anything else I’ve discovered the past month. This one is a tad late because I GOT MARRIED at the start of this month. It was the best week imaginable.
Podcast Recommendations
1.) Paul Graham – The Social Radars
Paul has been such an influential voice to so many people trying to build things the world might want. His essays are consistently cited as a huge source of inspiration by people I admire, and I myself have found them extremely valuable (and recommended several in these Roundups). In this episode, Paul talks with his wife Jessica and Carolynn Levy about how he got started building things people want.
2.) Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel and Tech – Conversations with Tyler
As always, Tyler Cowen is able to take this conversation with a very known and very interesting person into new deeper waters.
Reading Recommendations
As always, you can keep up with what I am reading here. You can also check out my Reading This page to see the five things I am currently recommending.
1.) readsomethingwonderful.com – Matter
I’ve written about using Matter to save interesting essays and articles I want to read for later. It is my go to reading hub and designed very well. They’ve just released this delightful website where there are countless “timeless” reading recommendations available. This is their attempt to prevent the bias of reading exclusively new material that so many of us fall into. There are some fantastic essays in here. Some I have read and loved, but there are many more I have never even heard of. I’ve saved a dozen or so already to read later. Right now I am half-way through this one by Brian Eno about the strange world of smells.
Twitter, Cool People + Projects
Here is my most popular Tweet from the past few weeks, about some valuable questions I stumbled upon that I’ve found more helpful than simply trying to ask yourself “what should I do?” or “what do I want?” This was in response to Visa Veerasamy’s Tweet about how many people don’t actually know what they want. There he says “wanting is not an intellectual act to be known with the mind. wanting is felt”.
Next up is cool people and projects.
1.) Infinite Mac by Mihai Parparita
Infinite Mac is a collection of classic Macintosh system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a (modern) web browser. Basically you get to click around on old Macs from your browser. It is super cool and scratching the itch of archives I’ve had lately.
2.) Mobile Phone Museum by Ben Wood, Matt Chatterley, and team
This is such a pleasing catalogue of mobile phone designs. Very nostalgic and educational.
Personal Updates
As I mentioned at the top of this roundup, I recently got married to the greatest human I know. We had the best possible week imaginable and are still riding the high from being surrounded by the people we love most, celebrating our beautiful relationship. I am debating writing a longer piece about it, but am unsure if I want to share that all or keep it for ourselves. For now I will leave it at this!
I also wanted to share that I’ve given myself a challenge that I am now in the midst of. I call it the 30 Days of Creative Programming Challenge. I am attempting to make one video a day for 30 days about Creative Programming and my process designing and programming websites. Here are two of the projects from the first 7 days that I am proud of: MonoChrome CV and Janet Rules. I will have more to say on this (I am currently on day 8), but you can learn more about Creative Programming and follow along here.
That’s all for now, see ya next month!
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