Updated on 16 Apr 2026. Hooray for star rankings!
Items that I rank <4 stars not included.
music
artists
★★★★★ · The 1975
★★★★★ · bbno$
★★★★★ · Bleachers
★★★★★ · Daft Punk
★★★★☆ · Avicii
★★★★☆ · Billy Joel
★★★★☆ · Charli xcx
★★★★☆ · Djo
★★★★☆ · Kygo
★★★★☆ · Kubbi
★★★★☆ · Paul Simon
★★★★☆ · Pitbull
albums
★★★★★ · Being Funny In A Foreign Language - The 1975
★★★★★ · Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
★★★★★ · Graceland - Paul Simon
★★★★★ · Closer - Better Than Ezra
★★★★★ · The Crux - Djo
★★★★☆ · BRAT - Charli xcx
★★★★☆ · bag or die - bbno$
songs
★★★★★ · Happiness - The 1975
★★★★★ · The Sound - The 1975
★★★★★ · Basic Being Basic - Djo
★★★★★ · I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers
★★★★★ · Claire Del Lune - Claude Debussy, The Philadelphia Orchestra
★★★★★ · Where The Streets Have No Name - U2
★★★★★ · Graceland - Paul Simon
★★★★☆ · Genghis Khan - Miike Snow
★★★★☆ · edamame - bbno$, Rich Brian
★★★★☆ · Waiting For Love - Avicii
★★★★☆ · Love Me To Heaven - Jonas Brothers
★★★★☆ · tv off - Kendrick Lamar, Lefty Gunplay
★★★★☆ · Mean girls - Charli xcx
★★★★☆ · Potion - Djo
★★★★☆ · Contact - Daft Punk
★★★★☆ · Touch - Daft Punk, Paul Williams
★★★★☆ · Cherry - Harry Styles
★★★★☆ · Missed Calls - Mac Miller
movies
★★★★★ · Good Will Hunting (1997)
★★★★★ · Rush Hour (1998)
★★★★★ · Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
★★★★☆ · Casino Royale (2006)
★★★★☆ · Inception (2010)
★★★★☆ · Interstellar (2014)
★★★★☆ · Penguins Of Madagascar (2014)
★★★★☆ · Despicable Me 3 (2017)
★★★★☆ · Little Women (2019)
★★★★☆ · Parasite (2019)
★★★★☆ · No Time To Die (2021)
★★★★☆ · The Holdovers (2023)
★★★★☆ · Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
books
★★★★★ · The Stand (expanded edition) - Stephen King
★★★★★ · The Martian - Andy Weir
★★★★★ · The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
★★★★★ · Remembrance of Earth’s Past (trilogy) - Cixin Liu
★★★★☆ · Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
★★★★☆ · Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
★★★★☆ · The Great Gatsby - J.D. Salinger
★★★★☆ · Failure Is Not An Option - Eugene Kranz
★★★★☆ · The Long Walk - Stephen King
★★★★☆ · The Running Man - Stephen King
★★★★☆ · Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
★★★★☆ · Liar’s Poker - Michael Lewis
★★★★☆ · What If? - Randall Munroe
★★★★☆ · How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie
★★★★☆ · The Apollo Murders - Chris Hadfield
games
board games
★★★★★ · Chess
★★★★★ · Catan
★★★★★ · Ticket To Ride: Europe
★★★★☆ · Azul
★★★★☆ · Pandemic
★★★★☆ · Ticket To Ride
★★★★☆ · Avalon
★★★★☆ · Root
★★★★☆ · Splendor
★★★★☆ · Villagers
video games
★★★★★ · Minecraft
★★★★★ · Tetris
★★★★★ · A Dark Room
quotes
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. —Robert A. Heinlein
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it. —Einstein
Comparison is the thief of joy. —Theodore Roosevelt
I’m playing the best hand I can with the cards I’ve been dealt. —Unknown
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. —Macbeth
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2 + 2 = 5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one. —Mikhail Tal
If you can’t handle a 50% drop [in your investments], you deserve a mediocre result. —Charlie Munger
If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport. —George Stigler