21: Notes To Self (”Best Of” Edition)

Yo, it’s Luke!

This edition is a little different. I just recapped my year and wanted to share the best things I found in 2023.

There’s a lot of good rabbit holes in here. 59 to be exact. Hope you click & explore some of them!

1. Books (in order of favorite)

• Think On These Things (life)

• Tuesday’s With Morrie (life)

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (life / business)

• Greenlights (biography, listen to the audiobook)

• Anything You Want (Life / Business)

• The Third Door (non-fiction / business)

• Dark Matter (sci-fi)

• Project Hail Mary (sci-fi)

• The Little History of Religion (history / religion)

• A Guide To The Good Life (philosophy / life)

• Machinery of Life (biology)

• The Creative Act (life / artist)

2. Essays

• New Ways of Thinking About Depression, Anxiety, & Burnout

• How The World Currently Incentivizes Bunting

• You, Inc. - Getting Into Business

• Effortless Personal Productivity

• The Case For Travelling More

• Growth Without Goals

3. Videos

• Sundae Conversation w/ Josh Allen

• Beaver Lodge Construction Squad

• FKJ on the Salt Flats of Bolivia

• Jon Snow Mini Movie

4. Podcasts

• Million Dollar Egg Carton Business on MFM

• Derek Sivers on The Knowledge Project

• Jeremy Giffon on Invest Like The Best

• Kevin Kelly on Invest Like The Best

• Bill Gurley On Regulatory Capture

• Joshua Waitzkin on Tim Ferriss

• Glennon Doyle & Brene Brown

• Chris Sacca on Tim Ferriss

5. Movies

• Everything Everywhere All At Once

• About Time

6. Thinkers (in order of favorite)

• Jiddu Krishnamurti

• Derek Sivers

• Isabel Unraveled

• Shaan Puri

• Jesse Itzler

• Nathan Barry

• David Foster Wallace

• Molly Mielke

• Kevin Dahlstrom

7. Music

• Bon Iver’s Best Album

• FKJ Instrumentals

• Un Verano Sin Ti

• Tony Ann Piano

• Calm Down

• La Canción

• Caamp

• Jorja

8. Purchases

• Cold plunge

• OneSec (app blocker)

9. Habits (in order of impact)

• Don’t check phone for first hour of the day

• Daily unstimulated time to think / chill

• Putting only 3 big things on my task list each day

• Journaling to recap life stories / themes and unravel my internal state (minimum once a month)

• Planning adventures for the week on Sundays

• Practicing & studying meditation using Waking Up app

• Starting lots of books and dropping them if I lose interest

• Eating my 1st meal at noon

Thanks for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday! If you liked this edition, send it over to a friend who would like it too 🤝 

Cheers,

Luke

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