My “Reading” List

Books, Podcasts, & Videos

Here is another update on what I have been reading, watching, and listening to the past few months. As you can see in the lists below, my research on (and for) humanity has continued, with a few interruptions to research and listen to multiple outlets about Covid19. I didn’t include all the content in my lists because there is SO MUCH! Below, I outlined the “other content” and “daily habits” that have me looking up articles and videos on a regular basis so I don’t have to list them all every month. If you want to find a podcast, video, or book I have specifically listed look them up using the title provided, sorry I didn’t included many links on this one.

Other Content

I do my best to stay in the loop everyday by watching and reading news from multiple sources. To get a full picture I’ll tune in to hear what the main media news sources are saying like CNN, FOX, BBC, etc, as well as local news and independent news sources. I show up to events (in-person or online) like town halls, debates, hearings, on a local, national, and global level. I also utilize information from independent content creators on blogs, podcasts, youtube, and more. Another channel for information and expression is news satire comedians and stand up comics.

Staying in tune to what is happening in my local community all the way to the global community is really important to me. Yes, it is a lot of content, but it allows me to see the bigger picture. It’s a more holistic look at what is going on, what is being said, and who is doing what. To get through so much content I multitask so I can be productive while listening, and I also change the playback speed to 2x+ so that everything I’m listening to takes half as long! Amidst it all, there are lots of great people doing great work to discover and share truths about our reality, solve problems, and improve quality of life.

Daily habits:

• Meditation
• Stretching
• Outdoor Exercise
• Physical Therapy (building the right muscles)
• Intermittent Fasting
• Vegan-ish

These daily habits equal daily content that I consume. Whether it’s doing a new guided meditation or finding a new physical therapy exercise video to help with my specific issues, or watching a video about proper stretching, or watching a guided yoga video. And being vegan-ish means I’m always looking up good vegan recipes.

There are apps that provide me with content too. I really enjoy the Waking Up App, Daily Guided Meditations by Sam Harris (and some by Annaka Harris too!) I’ve been doing this for a year now! I started by first doing the 50 days consecutively (more or less) to finish the beginner’s “curriculum”. This unlocks the daily meditations within the app. I really enjoy this basic, simple and almost scientific, guided meditation. There are so many flavors to accessing other states of consciousness. It’s been very intriguing researching them all and enjoying the proven health benefits.

Okay, on to the lists! I used numbered lists with no specific order just wanted to count them by month, working backwards from now as I write this on May 16th 2020. So below you will see May, April, March, February, January, and December 2019. Yeah, it’s been awhile seen this has been updated, haha. Thanks for reading! It’s been fun to document the different things that I get into! I probably missed a lot, but it’s fun to look back at the content I consume! I should have started taking note like this so much sooner, for my own benefit! And it helps answer questions like; “How do you know that??? Where did you hear that??” “How do you know so much about stuff?” I’m a life long learner with a passion for discovery and exploration into various topics! Thanks again for joining my journey!

May 2020

As of May 16^th 2020 / half of month

Books (Audiobooks)

1. Lost Connections -Johan Hari (finished it, 2^nd time- so good!)
2. Drawdown by Paul Hawken (in progress)

Podcasts & Videos

1. Spaceship Earth – Documentary about Biosphere 2
2. YangSpeaks – with Ian Bremmer
3. Joe Rogan Experience – with Dr. Rhonda Patrick
4. YangSpeaks – with Sam Harris
5. Az Small Business BootCamp Sessions/Videos (Resource made available during Covid 19 thru Az Commerce Authority)
6. YangSpeaks with Krystal Ball (I LOVED THIS ONE!!)
7. Bret & Heather Dark Horse Podcast Live Stream – Herd Immunity
8. Joe Rogan with Elon Musk
9. Regional Report Pivoting your Business Model – Phx Economic Council
10. Az Biz BootCamp – CashFlow – Cut Costs
11. Alex Kack’s Sorry for Rambling with Nomiki Konst
12. So many videos for physical therapy and meditation
13. Making Sense with Sam Harris – with Yuval Noah Harari
14. Mindscape (Sean Carroll) with Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science
15. 99% Invisible – The Natural Experiment (SO GOOD!)

News & Articles

• Too much to document.  Typically I start the day by reading several news articles in the morning and watch about 3-5 news segments. Plus everything I end up reading through social media platforms, and things my friends send me. See paragraph “other content” above…
• Here are a few articles I had read and saved by sending or getting from friends in the last week or so so you can get a glimpse, but just know that this is a sad small representation of the larger data set.
  • The Risks: Know them and Avoid them by Eric Bromage
  • The Sickness in our Food Supply by Michal Pollen on NYbooks.com
  • $2,000 per citizen monthly bill on Forbes
  • The Storm We Can’t See on Washington Post
  • What a Rigged Economy Looks Like on CommonDreams.org
  • Vitamin D and Covid 19 on Medical Express
  • Calling Me a Hero Only Makes You Feel Better on The Atlantic

April 2020

Books (Audiobooks)

1. Lost Connections by Johan Hari (re-read, in progress)
2. Lying by Sam Harris (finished)
3. Epigenetics by Richard C. Francis (in progress)
4. The Inflamed Mind by Edward Bullmore (in progress)

Podcasts & Videos

1. RadioLab – Atomic Artifacts
2. RadioLab – The Cataclysm Sentence
3. Sam Harris’s Making Sense #200 – Creatures of Habit a conversation with James Clear
4. Lots of physical therapy and pain management videos
5. Mindscape 94 Stuart Russell on Making Artifical Intelligence Compatible with Humans
6. Joe Rogan with Duncan Trussell
7. Mindscape 93 with Rae Wynn Grant on Bears, Humans, and Other Predators
8. Breathwork and meditation videos
9. Sorry for Rambling – Madeleine Roux
10. Sorry for Rambling – Jason Call
11. Bret & Heather Dark Horse Podcast – Live Q&A
12. Sorry for Rambling – Tokyo Sand
13. Sorry for Rambling – Morgan Freed
14. Mindscape 92 Kevin Hand on Life Elsewhere in the Solar System
15. H3 Podcast with Epidemiologist Dr Eric
16. Mindscape 91 Scott Barry Kaufman on the Psychology of Transcendence
17. Joe Rogan Experience with Eric Weinstein
18. Making Sense with Sam Harris – #195 Social Cohesion is Everything
19. Making Sense with Sam Harris #198 with Paul Bloom
20. Making Sense with Sam Harris #196 The Science of Happiness with Laurie Santos
21. Making Sense with Sam Harris #194 The Future of Work with Matt Mullenweg
22. Joe Rogan Experience with Lex Fridman
23. Sorry for Rambling Jen Perelman (passionate representative in florida)
24. Sorry for Rambling Joe Ferguson (local sheriff)
25. Sorry for Rambling with Majid Padellan / Brooklyn Dad Defiant
26. Sorry for Rambling with Fred Wellman
27. Videos from looking up how to use a neti pot correctly LOL SO SICK (march/April)
28. Bret & Heather Dark Horse on Vaccines and seasonality
29. Bret & Heather Dark Horse on Bio weapons, bats, and societal response (from an evolutionary biologist standpoint)
30. Mindscape #37 Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons…
31. Mindscape #90 David Kaiser on Science, Money, and Power.
32. Sorry for Rambling with Fred Karger
33. Economic Complexity by Dr. Cesar Hidalgo | Centre for Complex Systems Studies
34. Ted Talk by Cesar Hidalgo: A Bold Idea to Replace Politicians

March 2020

Books (Audiobooks)

1. Scale by Geoffrey West (finished SO GOOD!)

Podcasts & Videos

1. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean Carroll, Conservation
2. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean Carroll, Change
3. YangSpeaks – A Conversation with Andrew Yang
4. Mindscape #89 with Lera Broditsky on Language, Thought, Space…
5. Jurassic Art – 99% Invisible
6. Why Blue Whales Don’t Get Cancer – Peto’s Paradox |Kurzgesagt
7. City of Tucson Webinars & other resources
8. Mindscape Bonus with Tara Smith on Coronavirus, Pandemics and What We….
9. Bret & Heather Dark Horse Live stream 1- tests and masks
10. Making Sense #192 with Paul Bloom
11. Joe Rogan with Shannon O’Loughlin
12. Ancient Structures with Graham Hancock (from joe rogan experience #142)
13. Cahokia Mounds – multiple videos and lectures
14. The Myth of the Mound Builders
15. Mindscape AMA
16. Mindscape #88 Neil Shubin on Evolution, Genes, and Dramatic Transitions
17. Italians record messages for “themselves from 10 days ago” goes viral
18. The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace with Geoffrey B. West
19. Mindscape #5 Geffrey West on Netwoks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life.
20. Stoicism How Epictetus Keeps Calm
21. So many Physcial Therapy & Meditation Videos
22. Joe Rogan Experience #1439 with Michael Osterholm worked with CIDRAP / CDC etc
23. Joe Rogan Experience #1437 with Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics
24. Mindscape #15 David Poeppel on Thought, Language, and How to Understand the Brain
25. Mindscape #87 Karl Friston on Brains, Predictions, and Free Energy
26. Joe Rogan Experience #1436- Adam Curry
27. Mindscape #86 Martin Rees on Threats to Humanity, Prospects for Posthumanity…
28. Mindscape #84 Suresh Naidu on Capitalism, Monopsony, and Inequality.

February 2020

Books (Audiobooks)

1. How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan  (Finished)
2. The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman (Finished)
3. Scale by Geoffry West (in progress)

Podcasts & Videos

1. Mindscape #80 Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the….
2. Mindscape #85 L.A. Paul on Transformative Experiences and Your Future Selves
3. Joe Rogan Experience with Brian Greene
4. Mindscape #82 with Robin Carhart-Harris on Psychedelics on the Brain
5. Lots of meditation videos
6. Mindscape #38 Alan Lightman on Transcendence , Science, and a Naturalists Sense of…..

Not too much content for this month. Working on lots of projects and I got really sick end of January – into February! And then I took vacation!

January 2020

Books (Audiobooks)

1. How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan  (in progress)
2. The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman (in progress)

Podcasts & Videos

• Infinite I am Love Meditation | Steve Nobel
• Guided Yoga Nidra Videos | Multiple sources
• Abraham Hicks Fear is Telling You Something | Abraham Hicks Bliss
• Super Quick Alignment Meditation | Steve Nobel
• Abraham Hicks EVERYTHING is ALWAYS working out for me | dewdrop157
• Hasan Puts #YangGang to the Test | Deep Cuts Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
• Sara Imari Walker on Information and the Origin of Life | Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Episode 79
• #AmericaNeedsYang trends during debate without Yang on Stage | Multiple Videos
• Why SpaceX is Making Starlink | Real Engineering
• Abraham Hicks You Can’t Serve Two Masters | dewdrop157
• Affirmations I am a Starseed Magician | Steve Nobel
• Mindscape #81 with Ezra Klien on Polarization, Politics, and Identity

December 2019

Books (Audiobooks)

1. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch (finished)
2. DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Straussman (finished)
3. How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan  (in progress)
4. The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger  (finished)

Podcasts & Videos

1. Mental Models with Shane Parrish | Making Sense with Sam Harris Podcast #155
2. Psychedelic Science with Roland Griffiths | Making Sense with Sam Harris Podcast #177
3. The Reality Illusion with Donald Hoffman | Making Sense with Sam Harris Podcast #178
4. Highly Sensitive Entreprenuers | Growth Mindset Podcast Episode 76
5. Alan Lightman on Transcendence, Sciencce and a Naturalists Sense of Meaning | Mindscape Episode 38 (only got halfway through)
6. UBI FAQ – How do you pay for Universal Basic Income? | Andrew Yang for President 2020
7. Andrew Yang Post Debate Full Interview & Other clips
8. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah – Bernie and Rand Paul segments
9. Abraham Hicks Law of Attraction Guided Vortex Meditation | dewdrop157
10. Guided Yoga Nidra Videos