Favorites
Obviously, it's impossible to definitively rank anything once and for all. There are simply too many factors: the context of my experiences, the high-dimensional nature of things, the inherent subjectivity of my preferences, the fact that they change over time, etc. There's also recency bias, social desirability bias, confirmation bias, and all sorts of other biases.
With that being said, I think it's fun to rank stuff (to a certain extent). I also think it's fun to learn about people through their preferences, so in case you're curious, here are some of mine. Again, there are tons of factors at play, so please don't take any of this seriously (especially if your preferences are different from mine).
Board games
Less complex
Favorites
More complex
Favorites
Books
Fiction
Favorites
Honorable Mentions
- A Little Life
- A Separate Peace
- Anxious People
- Circe
- City of Thieves
- Fahrenheit 451
- Little Fires Everywhere
- Nothing to See Here
- Revival
- Siddhartha
- Station Eleven
- The Art of Fielding
- The Color Purple
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Plot
- The Rosie Project
- The Silent Patient
- The Three-Body Problem
- The White Tiger
Nonfiction
Favorites
Honorable Mentions
- A Body, Undone
- Bullshit Jobs
- Fist Stick Knife Gun
- Four Thousand Weeks
- Fun Home
- How to Be Perfect
- How to Live a Good Life
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Man's Search for Meaning
- On Writing
- Predictably Irrational
- Range
- Shoe Dog
- Shop Class as Soulcraft
- Team of Rivals (abridged)
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Case Against Education
- The Common Good
- The Dawn of Everything
- The Ethical Algorithm
- The Internet of Us
- The Road to Character
- This Common Secret
- What the Best College Teachers Do (review)
- When Breath Becomes Air
Fruits
Favorites
Movies
Favorites
Honorable Mentions
- 21
- 25th Hour
- A Serious Man
- Arrival
- Cars
- Children of Men
- Django Unchained
- El Camino
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Everything, Everywhere All at Once
- Ex Machina
- Fargo
- Get Out
- Good Will Hunting
- Gone Girl
- Goodfellas
- Inglorious Basterds
- Joker
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Minority Report
- Nightcrawler
- Rush Hour
- Stand by Me
- Taxi Driver
- The Dark Knight
- The Godfather
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Truman Show
- Toy Story 2/3/4
- Up
Podcasts
Favorites
Honorable Mentions
- Bon Appétit Food People
- Conversations with Tyler
- Deep Questions with Cal Newport
- FiveThirtyEight Politics
- Freakonomics
- Freakonomics, M.D.
- Hidden Brain
- How I Built This with Guy Raz
- How To!
- Know Your Enemy
- Lex Fridman Podcast
- Longform
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Moral Maze
- No Stupid Questions
- Now & Then
- Offline with Jon Favreau
- People I (Mostly) Admire
- Sudhir Breaks the Internet (What happened?)
- The Glenn Show
- The Jordan Harbinger Show
- The Tim Ferriss Show