Content Curation. In this section of .handbrained, I’ve curated some content I found interesting to share with you. audiobooks, blogs, aud movies, podcasts, videos, and Youtube channels. Enjoy!
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.musicular is .handbrained‘s playlist, a curated choice of albums I’ve been listening to.
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Audiobooks
2022
Fiction
- Don’t Cry for Me by Daniel Black
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
- The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
Non-Fiction
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
- Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
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Blogs
- OneCameraOneLens by Mark G Adams – Documentary Photography, Blogs & Fuji Recipes
- OneCameraOneLens by Mark G Adams – Documentary Photography, Blogs & Fuji Recipes
- Downshiftology | Healthy eating, living and travel – Another blog with healthy dishes I recently found and started exploring
- Pick Up Limes – An online place with delicious recipes “to nourish the cells and the soul”
- The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss – Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Workweek and Lifestyle Design Blog.
- Joe McNally’s Blog – The blog of the superstar photographer. One of a kind in the area
- Brain Pickings – One of the most beautiful and interesting blogs I know. Worth subscribing to the newsletter
- GatesNotes– The Blog of Bill Gates
Movies
- Battleship Potemkin (1925) by Sergei M. Eisenstein
- The Great Dictator (1940) by Charles Chaplin
- Rope (1948) by Alfred Hitchcock
- Straw Dogs (1971) by Sam Peckinpah
- Main Streets (1973) by Martin Scorsese
- Midnight Express (1978) by Alan Parker
- The Deer Hunter (1978) by Michael Cimino
- The Killing Fields (1984) by Roland Joffé
- Shoah (1985) by Claude Lanzmann
- Down by Law (1986) by Jim Jarmusch
- The Killer (1989) by John Woo
- Bad Lieutenant (1992) by Abel Ferrara
- C’est arrivé près de chez vous (1992) by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel & Benoît Poelvoorde
- Reservoir Dogs (1992) by Quentin Tarantino
- Coffee and Cigarettes III (1993) by Jim Jarmusch – Link to the full film. One of the most hilarious shorts I’ve ever watched.
- Chungking Express (1994) by Kar-Wai Wong
- Clerks (1994) by Kevin Smith
- The Addiction (1995) by Abel Ferrara
- Dead Man (1995) by Jim Jarmusch
- The Brave (1997) by Johnny Depp
- Hana-bi (1997) by Takeshi Kitano
- Pi (1998) by Darren Aronofsky
Podcasts
- On Purpose with Jay Shetty by Jay Shetty
- North Star Podcast by David Perell
- Sway The New York Times Opinion
- Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Question
- The Quest by Justin Kan
- Renegades: Born in the USA – an incredible but serious conversation between Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
- Speak Up Storytelling by Matthew and Elysha Dicks
- The Tim Ferriss Show by Tim Ferriss
- Not Overthinking by Ali and Taimur Abdaal
- A Bit of Optimism by Simon Sinek
- Brand Master Podcast by Stephen Houraghan
- The Michelle Obama Podcast
- Filmspotting: Reviews & Top 5s
Videos
- How to Live More Intentionally by Ali Abdaal
- The Right Way to Do Work-Life Balance by Simon Sinek
- Why You Never Have Enough Time by Nathaniel Drew
- How to turn a group of strangers into a team TEDTalk by Amy Edmondson
- The Real Secret of Productivity by Ali Abdaal
- The Internet’s Original Sin | Renee DiResta at MozFest 2018 by Renée DiResta
- Why Your Job is Just “Fine” by Simon Sinek
- How to Navigate Post-COVID Life: Two Tactics to Increase Your Well-Being and Happiness by Tim Ferriss
A Quick Way to Find Your Why by Simon Sinek
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster – Here, instead of a single video, I’m sharing all the playlist of videos related to Bill Gates‘s last book.
Honesty is not a Value by Simon Sinek
The Future of Remote Work by Simon Sinek
Grit: The power of passion and perseverance TEDTalk by Angela Duckworth
This Is Why You Don’t Succeed – Simon Sinek on The Millennial Generation
The Most Toxic Person In The Workplace by Simon Sinek
Practice Empaty by Simon Sinek
Facebook’s role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy TEDTalk by Carole Cadwalladr
Dear Facebook, this is how you’re breaking democracy TEDTalk by Yaël Eisenstat
Why COVID-19 is hitting us now — and how to prepare for the next outbreak TEDTalk by Alanna Shaikh
Why good leaders make you feel safe TEDTalk by Simon Sinek
YouTube Channels
For the VIP Community
The Blind Life – Sam and his YouTube channel gave me the motivation to try to provide to a more European VIP Community some advice on how to use new technologies in their benefit to make their quality of life a bit better
Books
Motivation & Inspiration
Productivity, creativity, and Tech
- Linking Your Thinking
- harshibar
- Shu Omi
Thomas Frank – If you are interested in Notion, Thomas is probably one of the most knowledgeable persons I know on the internet. He just launched a Notion Fundamentals free course.
Christopher Lawley – This channel is amazing, mainly if you are into shortcuts and automations for iPad and iPhone