2025 Log

January

• Book | There is Always This Year | Hanif Abdurraqib | ✔️

• Article | The Quiet Web | birankoberlein.com | ✔️

• Article | Technical Writing in 2049 | passo.uno | ✔️

• Article | Make Better Documents | Anil Dash | 🏆

• Article | Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does | Anil Dash | 🏆

• Article | Technical vs. serious in writing | jamesg.blog | ✔️

• Article | Planning for momentum | Increment | 🏆

• Article | Why time seems to pass faster as we age | Inverted Passion | 🔥

• Article | DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS | media.defense.gov | ✔️

• Article | The Character Building Toolkit | David Brooks | 🔥

• Film | The Brutalist | Brady Corbert | 🔥

• Film | A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg | 🔥

• Series | Silo - Season 2 | Apple TV | 🔥

• Series | Bad Sisters - Season 2 | Apple TV | ✔️

February

• Article | Product Quality Through Change Management | Richard Brooksby | 🏆

• Article | Advice to a friend that wants to start a blog | Escaping Flatland | ✔️

• Film | Last Stop at Yuma County | Francis Galluppi | ✔️

• Film | Conclave | Edward Berger | 🏆

• Film | Banshees of Inisherin (rewatch) | Martin McDonagh | 🔥

March

• Film | Transit | Christian Petzold | ✔️

• Film | Lincoln (rewatch) | Steven Spielberg | 🏆

• Book | Where are You, Beautiful World | Sally Rooney | ✔️

• Article | Why We’re Still Not Done with Jesus | Adam Gopnik | 🔥

• Article | Six Meditations on the Phone | Fydor | 🏆

• Article | The Ultimate Guide to Hosting World Class Dinner Parties | Auren Hoffman | ✔️

• Article | How to Host an Intellectual Dialoging Dinner | Fabrice Grinda | ✔️

April

• Article | Marseille | Aysegul Savage | ✔️

• Article | Marseille | Aysegul Savage | ✔️

• Series | White Lotus - Season 3 | Max | ✔️

• Series | Only Murders in the Building - Season 4 | Hulu | ✔️

• Film | The Apprentice | Ali Abbasi | 🔥

May

• Film | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | 🏆

• Series | Friends and Neighbors| Apple TV | ✔️

• Article | People are Losing THeir Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies | Miles Klee | ✔️

• Series| Four Seasons | Netflix | 🔥

• Article | Why Even Try if You Have A.I. | Joshua Rothman | 🏆

June

• Film | Black Bag | Stephen Soderbergh | 🔥
• Book | Traveling Mercies | Anne Lemont | ✔️
• Film | The Program | James Fox| 🔥

July

• Film| Friendship | Andrew DeYoung | ✔️

• Article | How to Create a Qualitative Codebook | Delve | ✔️

• Article | 1on1 Guide | Corentin Trebaol | ✔️

August

• Film | F1 | Joseph Kosinski| ✔️

• Article| Friending | No Mercy No Malice | 🔥

• Article | The Supreme Contradiction of Simone Weil | The New Yorker | ✔️

• Article | Summer Heatray Days | 🔥