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  • Outlive by Peter Attia

    Rating: 5/10 Aiming to provide a comprehensive guide to longevity and personalised preventative health care, Outlive covers topics such as exercise, nutrition, general medical information, and — to a much lesser degree — sleep and emotional health. While Outlive is filled with gems of practical advice, it’s also consistently very technical and often repetitive. I…

  • The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger

    Rating: 10/10 From a nobody at ABC to CEO of Disney, Bob Iger has learnt a lot about business, managing people, and simply navigating a busy life. This book is incredibly readable. It distils Iger’s career, Disney’s resurrection, and his own professional and personal philosophies into a coherent and engaging story. For anyone looking to…

  • ‘Locked’ Value, and Paying for Everything Twice

    How to account for the true cost and value of our possessions? In the same vein as Thoreau, who wrote in Walden: “the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run”, David Cain suggests that everything…

  • How to Title Your Work

    Written as advice to visual artists (painters, sculptors, etc.), How to title your art is half rallying cry half tutorial on why and how you should give your art a title. As Claudia Dawson said in Recommendo, the guidance is useful for anyone who writes titles or headlines. Some points that stuck out for me:

  • Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

    Rating: 8/10 An eye-opening book about something we all do and, it turns out, really should do more and better. I made a lot of notes/highlights in this book, as you’ll see. All worthwhile. I always knew sleep was important, but now knowing just how important has really changed my views on my habits, the…

  • A Visual Technique Library for Film Shots

    From the common to the lesser-seen cinematographic techniques, Eyecandy is a “visual technique library” for film shots. A database of over 5,000 GIFs, organised into around 100 different techniques, you select the technique and you get a short description and a wall of example clips. While I love movies, I’m certainly a cinematography neophyte, so…

  • Video Clip Search Tool

    As both a movie lover and a Xennial, I still (unashamedly) send a lot of video clips and gifs when texting with friends. If nothing apt comes up immediately, there’s a couple of sites I use where I can enter any phrase and immediately get a clip of it being said in various films and…

  • Sets of Things

    Found while looking up information on various puzzle hunts is this long list of sets of things. That’s it. That’s all it is. Sets of different things, in a big list. Sorted by the number of things in that set. For some reason, I find myself coming back to this list to satisfy a curiosity…

  • Five Books: Books Reviews Through Expert Interviews

    Five Books has been a favourite reading discovery site of mine for a few years. Twice a week, an expert in a given field is asked to select five books on a related topic, and then explains that selection in an often-enlightening short interview. I’ve never failed to come away from an interview with some…

  • NPR’s Annual Book Concierge

    One of my favourite annual publications is NPR’s Book Concierge, released each December. After suffering from “an acute case of list fatigue”, NPR stopped producing year-end lists in 2012 and, from 2013 onwards, has instead elicited recommendations from NPR staffers and other critics to create this “interactive reading guide [that’s] more Venn diagram-y than list-y”.…