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1. Maruja Mallo is good. (20th century Spanish painter.) 
2. Neri Oxman (MIT Media Lab designer) is good
3. Mariko Mori (contemporary Japanese sculptor) is good
4. The Joshua Mays murals in Oakland are good
5. Ernst Haeckel (illustrations) and the Blaschka brothers (glass models) are good
6. DeWain Valentine (California Light And Space Movement artist) is not only good but extremely handsome
7. Ports are good.
8. Serious Eats seriouseats.com is a great online cooking resource.
9. Ruth Reichl is *so* good and her memoirs were my inspiration to finally Git Gud in the kitchen.
10. Latcho Drom is probably my favorite movie, measured by number of times I’ve watched it. No dialogue, just music from Roma people around the world.
11. Watching world-class people’s learning process is good. Here’s Yitzhak Perlman learning a new piece of music in a new-to-him genre:
12. Tabla Beat Science is good.
13. Thelonious Sphere Monk is my favorite jazz pianist. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
14. It is physically impossible to be sad while listening to son jarocho:
15. My 2yo’s interest in trucks turned me on to a whole genre of music glorifying truckers. Truck songs are Good.
16. Medical how-to YouTube videos are great for understanding procedures — and often have a bit of black humor. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
17. This ICU nurse’s (defunct) blog endofshiftreport.com/?m=1 is the perfect blend of horrifying, hilarious, and informative.
18. My guilty pleasure is funny true stories of the general public being unbelievably stupid. clientsfromhell.net and shitmystudentswrite.tumblr.com regularly get me laughing out loud.
19. Nature documentaries are generally Good, but this one made me appreciate just how tight the energy margins reptiles have to work in:
20. Bustelo instant coffee is *qualitatively* different from all other coffee — less bitter, more smooth. Love it.
21. I’m hard on bags, and my Shinola is impressively durable for something so pretty. Also fits a laptop! shinola.com/womens/handbag…
22. Copic markers make drawing a joy. copic.jp/en/product/ske…
23. The glitter of cottonwoods in the sunlight.
24. Walking along the Embarcadero always makes me happy.
25. The classic Microsoft Space Cadet pinball is the only computer game I’ve really loved. classicreload.com/win9x-3d-pinba…
26. Big fan of this translation of Rimbaud. poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/R…
27. The Seminary Coop bookstore in Chicago was a magical place. I miss it. semcoop.com
28. Used book fairs are so good. Helps you mix up your reading and not get stuck in the present.
29. Sci-hub.tw is life and love.
30. amazon.com/American-Girls… amazon.com/American-Boys-… Books of kids’ activities from a century ago; I’m hoping to do these when my kid’s older.
31. Jackson Crawford’s videos about Norse mythology & language are super charming and informative.
32. Luca Turin essentially invented perfume reviewing, and the arch, bitchy, erudite collection of reviews he wrote with his wife Tania Sanchez is both hysterical and an education. amazon.com/Perfumes-Z-Gui…
33. káposztás tészta (though we just called them cabbage squares in my family) is the tastiest 15-minute dish nobody knows about. It’s just sautee’d cabbage and onions, egg noodles, and sour cream.
34. wildflowersearch.org is a very effective way to identify your local wildflowers.
35. This Old Tony is great for learning about machining and how things are made. youtube.com/c/ThisOldTony
36. JOVE is video demonstrations of laboratory protocols. Super valuable. jove.com
37. John Coulthart’s blog johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/ turned me on to illustrative and fantastic art.
38. The Saskiad is my favorite contemporary novel nobody’s heard of. amazon.com/Saskiad-Novel-…
39. When I was a kid I was obsessed with this book amazon.com/Elements-Style… and spent many mornings drawing Art Nouveau doors and windows.
40. A fun language learning exercise is to take a book you know super well (like the Bible) and try reading it in the new language, using your knowledge to fill in the unfamiliar words. My dad & I used to do that together.
41. The Emberverse books amazon.com/Emberverse-11-… are my comfort reading. Alternate-history adventures with a ton of research on the details.
42. Little Free Libraries are good. They have them all over Berkeley. littlefreelibrary.org
43. The Portofino Shirt is the ultimate comfortable business casual blouse. It's drapey chiffon. I have several.
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44. The Big Night is a very cute movie about two brothers trying to save their Italian restaurant. amazon.com/Big-Night-Marc…
45. Biomorphic architecture is good. (clockwise: Antti Lovag, Javier Senosiain, John Covert Watson, Oscar Niemeyer.)
46. Grand Central Station is good.
47. If you eat a grapefruit with your morning coffee it is MORE STIMULATING because grapefruit inhibits cytochrome p450
48. Shrubs and infused syrups are super fun to make, and are great in cocktails and homemade sodas. thespruceeats.com/what-is-a-shru… Blueberry-tarragon-cider-vinegar is a winner, as is ginger-lemon.
49. Ecstatic dance is a lot of fun. I used to go on Sunday mornings in Oakland. It’s free-form and there’s no wrong way to do it; I always felt welcome even though there were also some really talented dancers.
50. The best free tool for making custom color palettes is color.adobe.com/create/color-w… . There are tons of “AI generated color palette” toys out there but the Adobe app is actually practical.
51. FRED is a real pal. fred.stlouisfed.org
52. Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is too real.
53. Jacques Cousteau & Louis Malle's The Silent World is a refreshing bit of midcentury Progress! inspiration.
54. Blue No. 1 is my favorite color.
55. The movie “Babies” is real popular with small children and is less painful to watch for adults than most content for that demographic
