Wednesday, August 1, 2018

My Content Repo for the Aspiring Polymath (2018)

In three recent conversations I've had (with different people), new ideas and book references were being shared so rapidly that we decided to:

  1. PAUSE;
  2. Screen capture our Audible and Podcast Lists from our phones;
  3. Send to each other;
  4. CONTINUE CONVERSATION
When LinkedIn was still open to partner applications (circa 2012-13), content sharing was easier to do with peers with the Amazon Reading List application on your profile. LinkedIn killed it and killed the means to rapidly share a content list.

I do use Goodreads and Amazon to track my content lists, but rarely decide to share from there as I just don't use the application enough. I absolutely love it when Bill Gates and others release their recommended Summer Reading List, but I do find that people pursuing solutions in a same problem set as I am have much more relevant content ideas for me to look at (like my brother Jonathan).

Here is my Content Repo that goes back in time a bit. It isn't quite comprehensive, but thorough for example, I consume a ton of content from YouTube and Apple News - both of which are very good at recommending things I'd like to learn about. Here's the list.

Categories include:
  • Books
    • Business
    • Economics/Finance
    • Engineering
    • Biographies & Historical
    • Leadership
    • Education
    • Service, Stewardship, Self-Improvement
    • Fiction
  • Magazines/Media
  • YouTube Channels
  • Podcast
  • Blogs & Websites
  • Thought-Leaders I Follow

Business Books
Economics & Finance Books
  • Factfulness: 10 Reasons We're Wrong About the World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling
  • Freakonomics - Levitt, Dubner
  • Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Engineering Books
  • Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down - JE Gordon
  • Stuff Matters - Mark Miodownik
  • Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
  • Python for Everybody - Charles Severance
Biographies & Historical Books
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX...
  • Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson​
  • Benjamin Franklin - Walter Isaacson
  • The Innovators - Walter Isaacson
  • Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
  • Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance
  • The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
  • His Excellency: George Washington - Joseph Ellis
  • The Dead Hand - Hoffman
​Leadership Books
Education Books
Service, Stewardship, Self-Improvement Books
Fiction Books
  • Turtles All the Way Down - John Green
  • Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
  • Ready Player One - Cline
  • Armada - Cline
  • (Far too many to list here, so I've kept the list 
Magazines & Media
  • The Economist (monthly subscriber since 2006)
  • WSJ
  • Entrepreneur 
  • Mashable
  • Business Insider
  • The Motley Fool
  • Recode
  • Electrek
  • The Verge
  • Wired
YouTube Channels
  • Bloomberg Markets & Finance
    • The David Rubenstein Show
  • TED and TEDx Talks
  • Recode
  • Tech Insider
  • Big Think
  • Bill Gates
  • CGP Grey
  • Real Engineering
  • Mental Floss
  • Principles of Ray Dalio
  • It's Okay to be Smart
  • Vsauce
  • AskGaryVee
  • Smarter Everyday
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • DeepMind
  • The Artificial Intelligence Channel
  • Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell
  • Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • CrashCourse
  • minutephysics
  • Learn Engineering
  • PragerU
  • Vlogbrothers
  • ReasonTV
Podcasts
  • HBR Ideacast
  • Business Wars
  • Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
  • Freakonomics Radio
  • Exchanges at Goldman Sachs
  • How I Built This
  • Manager Tools
  • Jocko Podcast
  • LITES.org
  • Legends & Losers
Blogs & Web Applications
  • Wait but Why (blog)
  • Khan Academy
  • LinkedIn Learning (purchase of Lynda.com and growing)
  • Coursera (co-founded by Andrew Ng)
Thought-Leaders I Follow (Apple News or elsewhere)
  • Andrew Ng
  • Elon Musk
  • Jeff Bezos
  • Ray Dalio
  • Bill Gates
  • Robert F. Smith
  • Condoleezza Rice
  • Warren Buffett
  • Masayoshi Son
  • Tim Cook
  • Satya Nadella
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