2019 list - read, watch, listen, learn more

New year resolution to read, listen, learn more. Keeping record of it, as a way to keeping a commitment. Hope to keep this updated.

Books read

1. Milkman – Anna Burns. 3 / 5
2. All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven. 3.5 / 5
3. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson. 4 / 5 
4. A Contract with God - Will Isner. 3.5 / 5
5. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi - 4 / 5
6. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return - Marjane Satrapi - 3.5 / 5
7. The Best We Could Do - Thi Bui - 4 / 5 
8. A Man of the People - Chinua Achebe - 3 / 5
9. Sabrina - Nick Drnaso - 3.5 / 5
10. Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupéry - 4 / 5
11. Normal People - Sally Rooney - 4 / 5
12. The Vegetarian - Han Kong - 3.5 / 5
13. Jazz - Tony Morrison - 3.5 / 5
14. Sula - Tony Morrison - 3.5 / 5 
15. Maus - Art Spiegelman - 4/ 5 
16. Khasakkinte Itihasam - O. V. Vijayan (Malayalam) - 4 / 5
17. Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James - 3 / 5
18. Looking for Alaska - John Green - 4 / 5
19. The Women's Courtyard - Khadija Mastoor - 4 / 5
20.  Aarachar - K.R. Meera (Malayalam) - 4 / 5
21. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri - 4.5 / 5 
22. Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney - 4 / 5
23. A gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles - 4.5 / 5
24. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman - 4 / 5
25. Influence: the psychology of persuasion – Robert Cialdini - 4 / 5

Podcasts, Listened

1. Winning at the Great Game: My Interview with Adam Robinson (Part 2) [The Knowledge Project Ep. #48]
2. Winning at the Great Game: My Interview with Adam Robinson (Part 1) [The Knowledge Project Ep. #47]
3. James Clear on Rich Roll Podcast - Why habits are the compound interest of self improvement
4. The Dying Art of Conversation: My Interview with Author and Speaker Celeste Headlee
5. This is Water - David Foster Wallace
6. Inventing the Future: My Interview With Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe 
7. The Evolutionary Angel, Naval Ravikant - Tim Ferris Show
8. The Moth Radio Hour: Occasional Magic
9. Thich Nhat Hanh, Cheri Maples, and Larry Ward — Being Peace in a World of Trauma
10. #353: Patrick Collison — CEO of Stripe - Tim Ferris Show
11. #1309 - Naval Ravikant - The Joe Rogan Experience
12. The Moth Radio Hour: A Flight Attendant, A Refugee, and A Preacher
13. The Moth Radio Hour: Brains, Beauty, and Brawn: Stories of Girlhood
14. Tales from the Emerald Isle: Michael Devlin, Claire Nevin & Paul Doran
15. John O'Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
16. Joe Rogan Experience – John Carmack
17. The Knowledge Project with Share Parrish - Leading Above the Line with Jim Dethmer
18. On Being with Krista Tippett - Jericho Brown — Small Truths and Other Surprises
19. On Being with Krista Tippett - Mary Oliver — Listening to the World
20. On Being with Krista Tippett - Seth Godin — Life, the Internet, and Everything
21. On Being with Krista Tippett - Mahzarin Banaji — The Mind Is a Difference-Seeking Machine
22. Software Engineering Daily - Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck
23. Shonda Rhimes on How to Create Stories (and Products) People Want
24. The Knowledge Project with Share Parrish - #69 Stephen Schwarzman: What It Takes
25. The Knowledge Project with Share Parrish - #68 Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice
26. Invest like the best - Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger – How to Build a Great Product
27. The Knowledge Project with Share Parrish - #70 Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink

Movies 
1. Andhadhun - Hindi - 7 / 10
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 8/10
3. Roma - 8/10
4. Vijay Superum Pournamiyum - 5 / 10 
5. Bohemian Rhapsody - 7.5 / 10
6. 20th Century Women - 7 / 10
7. Kumbalangi Nights - 7.5 / 10 
8. Free Solo (documentary) - 8 / 10
9. Lady Bird - 6.5 / 10 
10. If Beale street could talk - 6.5 / 10
11. Manmarziaan - 6.5 / 10
12. Coração de Cowboy - 6 / 10
13. The Lincoln Lawyer - 6 / 10
14. Blackklansman - 6.5 / 10
15. The Green Book - 7 / 10
16. The shoplifters - 6.5 / 10
17. The way we were - 6.5 /10 
18. June (Malayalam) - 6 / 10
19. Gone Girl - 6 / 10
20. Secret in their eyes - 5 / 10
21. Annie Hall - 7 / 10
22. The English Patient - 7.5 / 10
23. Molly's Game - 5 / 10
24. God's Own Country - 6 / 10
25. The Descendants - 7 / 10
26. Uyare - 7 / 10
27. The last king of Scotland - 7 / 10
28. Varathan - 7 / 10
29. Iyyobinte Pusthakam - 7 / 10 
30. Carol - 7 / 10
31. Brooklyn - 6.5 / 10
32. One Day - 6.5 / 10
33. God's Own Country - 6 / 10 
34. Never Let Me Go - 7.5 / 10
35. The Spectacular Now - 7 / 10
36. The Light between Oceans - 6.5 / 10
37. Argentina Fans Kattoorkadavu - 6 / 10
38. Athiran - 6 / 10
39. Uyare - 7.5 / 10
40. And the Oscar goes to.. - 5.5 / 10
41. Assassination of Jesse James by coward Robert Ford - 7  10
42. American Women - 6 / 10
43. Tamasha - 6.5 / 10
44. Once upon a time in Hollywood - 7 / 10
45. Chekka chivantha vaanam - 6 / 10
46. Yesterday - 7.5 / 10
47. Sicario - 6.5 / 10
48. John Wick 1, 2, 3 - 6.5 /10
51. Marriage Story - 8 / 10
52. The Deer Hunter - 7.5 / 10
53. Ishq - 6 / 10
54. The irishman - 8 / 10

New Music discoveries 
1. Prateek Kuhad - Cold/Mess
2. Phum Viphurit - Paper Throne
3. Tonina Saputo - Historia du an Amor
4. LP - Lost on you
5. LP - Muddy Waters
6. Kumbalangi Nights - Uyiril Thodum 
7. Tonina Saputo - Quizas, Quizas, Quizas

Poems
1. Today , Wild Geese, Journey, The Summer Day, This talking about Love, The fourth sign of zodiac, For Example, Softest of mornings, Black oaks, The poet dreams of the mountain, The Fire, When I am among the trees - Mary Oliver 
2. Don't go far off, Sweetness, Always, I Like for You to be Still - Pablo Neruda
3. A red, red rose - Robert Burns
4. Yesterday, Black Cherries - W. S. Merwin
5. The colonel - Carolyn Forche
6. Melancholy - Ruben Dario
7. How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
8. Give All to Love - Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Kindness - Naomi Shihab Nye
10. The More Loving One - W. H. Auden
11. At The Last Watch - Rabindranath Tagore
12. At a Window - Carl Sandburg
13. A Prayer, Dark days, Desiderata - words for life  - Max Ehrmann
14. somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond - E. E. Cummings
15. Loneliness - Katherine Mansfield
16. For The Sake Of Strangers - Dorianne Laux
17. Today - Thomas Carlyle
18. The Rebel (Bidrohi) - Kazi Nazrul Islam
19. Offering and Rebuff - Carl Sandburg 
20. Poem for everyone - John Wood 
21. Buoyancy, Poems of Passion - Rumi
22. After a while - Veronica Shoftshall
23. Blessing the boats - Lucille Clifton
24. Alone - Georges Rodenbach
25. Moonlight Sleeps Within Your Heart - Jean Lahor
26. The Coming of Light - Mark Strand
27. I Feel Sorry For the Stars - Fernando Pessoa
28. Digging - Seamus Heaney
29. To my beloved: With my soul in my lips - Medardo Ángel Silva
30. A Decade - Amy Lowell
31. Wisdom , I am not Yours - Sara Teasdale 
32. Her Beauty - Max Plowman
33. The Oblation - Algernon Charles Swinburne
34. In an Artist's Studio - Christina Rossetti35. Democracy - Langston Hughes
36. Possibilities, The onion - Wislawa Szymborska
37. Slow Dance - David L. Weatherford
38. Moment, Aspiration - Mario de Andrade
39. The Voice - Shel Silverstein 
40. They sit together on the porch - Wendell Berry
41. Gulmohar - jndmello 
42. Before Quiet - Hazel Hall
43. Mad girl's love song - Sylvia Plath
44. Mimesis - Fady Joudah 

45. These poems - June Jordan
46. I have no power - Nizar Qabbani
47. Spring in Nairobi - Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
48. The Dove - Leonard Cohen
49. The peace of wild things - Wendell Berry
50. Jerusalem - Naomi Shihab Nye
51. A morning offering - John O'Donohue
52. Eating the bones - Ellen Bass
53. Faint music - Robert Hass 
54. Everything is going to be alright - Derek Mahon
55. Happiness - Jane Kenyon
56. The Rainy Day - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Others, watched and liked 
1. Inventing on principle - Bret Victor
2. Dreaming Murakami 
3. Systems Thinking
4. My year reading a book from every country in the world
5. Stop Drawing Dead Fish - Bret Victor 
6. How to start a startup
7. Greatness - David Marquet
8. Emergence and Complexity
9. Chaos and Reductionism
10. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
11. Russell Ackoff - From Mechanistic to Systemic Thinking
12. Systems Thinking Speech by Russell Ackoff
13. Robert C Martin - The Land that Scrum Forgot
14. Scott Hanselman - "it's not what you read, it's what you ignore"
15. Scott Hanselman - Scaling Yourself 
16. Spotify Engineering Culture

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