the good stuff
Canon
Books, comics, thinkers, TV and one podcast that shaped how I think. From Kahneman to Knight Rider. Not a best-of list, just what stuck.
Books
- Bobiverse · Dennis E. Taylor
- The Expanse · James S.A. Corey
- The Three-Body Problem · Liu Cixin
- Made to Stick · Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Influence · Robert Cialdini
- The God Delusion · Richard Dawkins
- The Culture Map · Erin Meyer
- Off to Be the Wizard · Scott Meyer
- Algorithms to Live By · Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
- Freakonomics · Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- The Egg · Andy Weir
- Project Hail Mary · Andy Weir
Listened to the audiobook multiple times. Beautiful story, and the alien bromance was a great unexpected plot surprise (in the book at least).
Growing up
- Suske en Wiske · Willy Vandersteen
- Donald Duck
- De Schippers van de Kameleon · Hotze de Roos
Thinkers
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Robert Cialdini
- Daniel Kahneman
- Simon Sinek
Explainers
- Frans Verstraten
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Randall Munroe
On screen
- Marvel's Avengers saga · Phases 1 to 3
- Ghostbusters II · 1989
- Knight Rider
- Airwolf
- The A-Team
- MacGyver
- The X-Files
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- The Matrix · 1999
- Jurassic Park · 1993
- Silicon Valley
- The Expanse · TV series
- Project Hail Mary · 2026