2018: Best movies, TV shows, YouTube channels, blogs, comics, podcasts, Twitter people, and Quora writers

Inspired by Alexey Guzey’s post about his favorite movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, and music. 

In order of how much I enjoyed/learned from them:

Movies:

1. Back to the Future trilogy (yes, I watched it for the first time in 2018)
2. Ready Player One
3. The Imitation Game
4. Stand and Deliver
5. Hidden Figures
6. The Matrix trilogy (yes, I watched it for the first time in 2018)
7. The Man who knew infinity
8. Idiocracy
9. A beautiful mind
10. GATTACA

TV:

1. Genius TV show Season 1
2. Halt and Catch Fire Season 1
3. Silicon Valley Season 5

YouTube channels:

1. Bill Wurtz. Recently discovered this channel and absolutely love it. It’s very weird and eccentric. The History of the entire world video is one of my favorites. 
2. CrashCourse. Chemistry and Biology playlists are amazing. 
3. MIT OCW
4. freeCodeCamp. Nice Python video.
5. 3blue1brown 
6. acapellascience. Molecular Shape of you is my favorite.
7. Julia Galef. Love her videos explaining rationality and different paradoxes. 
8. Simone Giertz
9. The Organic Chemistry Tutor. Helped me practice for the SAT. 
10. Domain of Science. 
11. Breakthrough 
12. Ray Wenderlich
13. Deanna See
14. Raspberry Pi YouTube channel
15. Marginal University
16. engineerguy. I watched The Chemical History of Candle series when making candles for Christmas with my friend. 
17. TED, TEDx, and TEDEd channels are pretty good

Blogs/newsletters:

1. Marginal Revolution
2. Uri Shaked’s 
3. Aaron Swartz. Fav post: Be more productive. 
4. Logan Collins 
5. freeCodeCamp Medium publication 
6. Alexey Guzey. Fav posts: What should you do with your life?, Research Ideas, and Where does talent come from? 
7. NeuroTechX
8. Nadia Eghbal 
9. Peter Norvig. Teach yourself programming in 10 years. 
10. CoMotion
11. Devon Zuegel
12. Michael Nielsen
13. Quanta Magazine
14. Nintil
15. WaitButWhy. Fav posts: Neuralink, Elon Musk series, and Cryonics
16. LessWrong 
17. Spencer Greenberg. Fav post: Making hard decisions. 
18. Jake Seliger
19. Medium’s personalized weekly newsletter. 
20. Benjamin Reinhardt 

Comics:

1. Existential Comics
2. Saturday Morning Breakfast Comics
3. xkcd
4. Hyperbole and a half 
5. Dilbert

Podcasts:

I love listening to podcasts when commuting or in flights or eating. Learning is so much fun!

1. Neural Implant podcast. 
2. Conversations with Tyler. Fav episodes: Peter Thiel and Patrick Collison. 
3. a16z 
4. Rationally Speaking. Fav episodes: Ed Boyden and Spencer Greenberg. 
5. David Perell. Fav episodes: Daniel Gross, Tyler Cowen, and Michael Nielsen. 
6. Anatomy of Next. Fav episodes: Biotech 

Twitter people:

People on Twitter whose tweets I learned the most from: 

1. Patrick Collison
2. Tyler Cowen
3. Saku P
4. Michael Nielsen
5. Alexey Guzey 
6. Ed Boyden
7. Daniel Gross
8. Laura Deming
9. Noah Tye
10. Star Simpson
11. Adam Marblestone 
12. Nick Arner
13. Joshua Browder
14. Athena Kan
15. Will Manidis
16. Balaji Srinivasan
17. Nadia Eghbal
18. NASA
19. MIT CSAIL
20. Ishabazz
21. Existential Comics (although most of the content is satire)
22. CTRL Labs
23. Jose Artir
24. freeCodeCamp
25. Florent Crivello
26. Nat Friedman

Quora Writers:

1. Yohan John
2. David Seidman
3. Travis Addair
4. Kay Aull
5. Vladimir Novakovski
6. Dima Korolev
7. Tom Higgins
8. Tikhon Jelvis
9. Geffen Avraham
10. Yishan Wong
11. Brian Bi
12. Chomba Bupe