Best of 2026
Books
Pico Iyer, Aflame, 2025 (Non-Fiction: In a series of meditative vignettes drawn from decades of retreats to a Benedictine hermitage above the Pacific, Iyer reflects on silence as a lens for seeing more clearly what it means to live, to attend to others, and to accept mortality with a kind of lucid tenderness. The book is a string of luminous reliquaries, inviting the reader to linger, slow the pulse, and consider how much of modern life is a distraction from the few things that actually matter.)
Movies
Is This Thing On, 2025
Find Me Guilty, 2002 (see also Cinemastix review)
Series
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Music
Olivia Dean, The Art of Loving, 2025
2026 Mix (Ongoing Spotify mix of various songs across decades and genres)
Videos and Channels
Channel: Platon Photo (short dialogues: example)
Video: The New Yorker. “Retirement Plan.” 2026
Video: 164Luke. “I Quit My Job To Do This - The Hot Wheels Custom.” 2026
Video: Psychology Simplified. “Psychology of Gen X.” 2026
Poems
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Apps
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Quotes
Information without action is entertainment. There’s nothing wrong with entertainment, but don’t confuse it with research. If you read something and it doesn’t make you think or cause you to change something in your life, it’s entertainment. Be honest about which one you’re doing. —Zeneca, “Weekly Nugget of Wisdom #45,” email newsletter, February 26, 2026.