Top Reads, Listens & Follows of 2023

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The top five books, articles, podcasts and other content from 2023 that stood out to me. Presented below in no particular order. My favorite was A Land Remembered.

Hope you enjoy.

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Books:

A Land Remembered by Patrick D Smith

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

How The World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos by Walter Isaacson

Tanking to the Top by Yaron Weitzman

Articles:

Forecasting Follies by Bob Seawright (here)

The New Yorker on The Titan Submersible (here)

Jamie Dimon’s $4 Trillion Machine (here)

American Nightmare, an Iraq war torture whistleblower undone by his mind (here)

Payoff-based College Admissions (here and here)

Listens: 

Special Situations in Private Markets with Jeremy Giffon (here)

Kyle Boddy, founder of Driveline Baseball, on pitching, baseball & gambling (here)

Sarah Moore on how she bought a multi-million dollar egg carton business (here)

Brett Adcock is the next Elon Musk? (here)

Nick Kokonas, co-founder of 3 of the best restaurants and bars in America (here)

Follow, Watch & Other great content:

America and the Taliban by PBS FrontLine (parts one and two)

Miami Dolphins on Hard Knocks (here)

100 Foot Wave, Season 2 (trailer here)

Full swing (trailer here)

The Retrograde (trailer here, watch on Hulu)