Stuff I Like

Books

• Finished (2026 List, Goal of 18 for year)

  • Tonight in Jungleland by Peter Ames Carlin

  • The World that we Knew by Alice Hoffman

  • Shadows in the Smoke by Tony Broadbent

  • The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore

  • Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen

  • Life After Cars by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, Aaron Naparstek

  • Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King by Preston Lauterbach

  • Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring

  • The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro

  • Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen

  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

  • Skinny Deep by Carl Hiaasen

  • Currently Reading

  • A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present by Howard Zinn

Podcasts

• 99% Invisible
• Accidental Tech Podcast
• Bill Simmons Podcast
• Bowery Boys
• Brian Windhorst Hoop Collective
• Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
• Dan Lebatard Show
• Decoder
• Effectively Wild
• Focused
• If Books Could Kill
• Intelligent Machines
• New York Times Books Review Podcast
• Pablo Torre Finds Out
• Puck Soup
• Search Engine
• Shutdown Fullcast
• Split Zone Duo
• The Rest is History
• The Poscast
• The Talk Show
• The War on Cars
• This American Life
• This Week in Tech
• Vergecast
• Zach Lowe Show
• Zero to Well Read

Newsletters

• New York Times - The Morning
• New York Times - The World
• New York Times - The Weekender
• The City - The City Scoop
• The Verge - Installer
• Molly White - Citation Needed
• Kottke Newsletter

Blogs

• 512 Pixels
• Oh Hello Anna
• Anil Dash
• Annie’s Blog
• Ben Werdmüller
• Birchtree
• Daring Fireball
• Ellane W
• FlohGro
• Glenn Fleishman
• Hey Dingus
• James’ Coffee Blog
• Merlin Mann
• Note to Self
• Pixel Envy
• Pluralistic
• Steph Ango
• The Dent
• Tim Nahumck
• Whatever