Top Reads, Listens & Follows of 2024

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The books, articles, podcasts and other content from 2024 that stood out to me - presented below in no particular order. My favorite was the documentary Ren Faire.

Hope you enjoy.

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Books:

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Who is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz

Articles:

How Larry Gagosian reshaped the art world by Patrick R. Keefe (here)

Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny by Tad Friend (here)

Joe Biden and the common knowledge game by Ben Hunt (here)

Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation by Adam Iscoe (here)

The ex-NYPD official trying to tame New York’s trash by Eric Lach (here)

Listens:

Jeff Bezos, from Amazon to Space (here)

Brett Adcock on My First Million (here)

How I Built This: Athletic Brewing (here)

Jared Kushner - The Mechanic (here)

PayPal Intern to 4x Billion-Dollar Companies, Joe Lonsdale (here)

Frank Blake - Leading By Example (here)

Gabe Whaley - Building MSCHF (here)

Follow, Watch & Other great content:

Ren Faire on HBO (trailer here)

Stopping The Steal on HBO (trailer here)

The Blue Angels on Amazon Prime (trailer here)

How Mossad tricked Hezbollah into buying explosive pagers (here)

Hopeful Syrians look toward a future without Bashar al-Assad (here)