Movies + Media
Running top five movies
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson. Childhood favorite and core to my being. "The Two Towers" if pressed for a specific film.
- Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola
- The Shining, Stanley Kubrick
- Warrior, Gavin O'Connor
- The Northman, Robert Eggers
Runners Up
- Saving Private Ryan, Stephen Spielberg
- Forrest Gump, Robert Zemeckis
- The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme
- 1917, Sam Mendes
- Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino
- The Matrix, Lana and Lilly Wachowski
- The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola
- Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese
- Interstellar, Christopher Nolan
- Gladiator, Ridley Scott
- Whiplash, Damien Chazelle
- Joker, Todd Phillips
- Alien, Ridley Scott
- The Star Wars series, George Lucas
- Dune, Denis Villeneuve
Running top-five podcasts
- Hardcore History, Dan Carlin
- Conversations with Tyler, Tyler Cowen
- War on the Rocks, Ryan Evans
- Ukraine: The Latest, The Telegraph
- Naval, Naval Ravikant
Runners Up
- Modern War Institute Podcast, West Point
- The Fighter Pilot Podcast, Vincent Aiello
- The Afterburn, John "Rain" Waters
- Conversations with Coleman, Coleman Hughes
- Modern Finance, Kevin Rose
- 99% Invisible, Roman Mars
- This American Life, Ira Glass
Favorite email newsletters/blogs
- Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander): Rationalism, prediction markets, social commentary, libertarian-ish
- Platformer (Casey Newton): Technology news and analysis, funny tweets
- Lots of Links (Annie Rauwerda): Funny shit
- Embedded (Kate Lindsay, Nick Catucci): Technology, internet culture
- Blackbird Spyplane (Jonah Weiner, Erin Wylie): Hard to explain culture stuff
- Naval Ravikant: Life advice, technology, philosophy, libertarian-ish
- James Clear: Life advice, really good quotes, politics-free
- Semi-Rad (Brendan Leonard): Running, mountaineering, outdoor stuff
- Money Stuff (Matt Levine): Finance, public markets
- The Best of Journalism (Conor Friedersdorf): Deep-dives into fascinating and incredibly diverse topics. I pay for the yearly subscription and it's well worth it
- Wired Longreads: Deep-dives into tech things
- The Merge: Military news centering on the US Air Force and Pentagon stuff
- Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) newsletter: World military affairs from a British perspective
Favorite twitter thread
If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.
— Naval (@naval) May 31, 2018
Full archive of movies
Work in progress. I haven't tracked my movie watching as religiously as books and other aspects of my life. I've bolded ones that I'd especially recommend.
2022
- Triangle of Sadness
- Three Thousand Years of Longing
- The Northman (excellent)
- Guns Akimbo
- Everything everywhere all at once
- Fresh (Mimi Cave)
- Free Guy
- Kimi (meh)
- 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible
- Pig (Nicolas Cage)
- Don't Look Up
Before 2022
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Godfather Part II
- The Dark Knight
- Schindlers List
- Every Harry Potter film
- Inception
- Se7en
- The Green Mile
- Parasite
- Terminator
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- American History X
- The Departed
- Rear Window
- Django Unchained
- Inglorious Basterds
- Reservoir Dogs
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Kill Bill Vol.1
- Kill Bill Vol. 2
- Natural Born Killers
- Fight Club
- WALL-E
- Princess Mononoke
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Aliens
- Avengers: Endgame
- The Avengers
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Iron Man
- Iron Man II
- Iron Man III
- Black Panther
- Shang Chi: Legend of the 10 Rings
- The Incredible Hulk
- Thor
- Thor: Ragnarok
- American Beauty
- Toy Story
- Toy Story II
- Toy Story III
- Braveheart
- The Patriot
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Requiem for a Dream
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Full Metal Jacket
- Amelie
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Die Hard
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Monty Python: Life of Brian
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Every Daniel Craig James Bond movie
- No Country for Old Men
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- The Seventh Seal
- The Truman Show
- Jurassic Park
- The Lost World
- Jurassic Park III
- V for Vendetta
- Bladerunner
- Bladerunner 2049
- Trainspotting
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Gran Torino
- Catch Me If You Can
- Room
- The Big Lebowski
- Logan
- Monsters, Inc.
- Into the Wild
- The Princess Bride
- Jumanji
- Rocky
- Nobody
- The Matrix Reloaded
- The Matrix Revolutions