My 2022 Favorites
This is the Friday Finds end of year recap for 2022. It includes my favorite YouTube video, YouTube channels, podcasts, articles, books, music, and websites.
Best YouTube Videos
Finance Videos
- The 2022 Housing Crash
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
- Howard Marks Interview
- Why Bitcoin is the Best Monetary Network with Lyn Alden
- Index Funds Are The Biggest Bubble Of Our Time
Career Videos
- If You Want To Be a CEO Become An Engineer First
- If I Was Making 75k per Year I'd Do This by Alex Hormozi
- What Predicts Career Success?
- Robert Greene on Power, Seduction, War, and Human Nature
- Success Has Ingredients: Garbage In Garbage Out by Sam Ovens
Business Videos
- Get Rich in the New Economy by Alex Hormozi
- Elon Musk Interview With Ron Baron
- How This Harvard MBA Bought A $50 Million Dollar Business For $0
- Million Dollar Businesses with 0 Employees
- How to Build a Business Empire by Felix Dennis
International Relations Videos
- Are we running out of resources?
- The Rules for Rulers
- First 6 days of War in Ukraine through my eyes.
- The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war Lecture by John J. Mearsheimer
- We Are In A "FOURTH TURNING," What Does That Mean?
Other Videos
- Dostoevsky - Never Lie to Yourself
- This is How Easy It Is to Lie With Statistics
- Atomic Habits by James Clear Animated Summary
- Great Classical Books for Busy People by Tracy Lee Simmons
- Salvador Dali's 'The Persistence of Memory': Great Art Explained
Entertainment Videos
- Free Climbing with Alex Honnold **Insane experience**
- Surviving Snake Island (Venomous Snakes Australia)
- Dialogue Dive: The Writing of Joker's Deleted Scene
- SNEAKING Into KSI's Boxing Match (In the ring)
- I interned for Kelly Wakasa to steal his secrets
Best YouTube Channels
- EPB Research (High quality macroeconomic analysis)
- The Real Investment Show (Macroeconomic analysis)
Best Podcasts
- Pfeffer on Power Podcast (Career success strategy)
- Blockworks Macro Podcast (Macroeconomics commentary)
- Blockworks Empire Podcast (Crypto commentary)
- Blockworks Bell Curve Podcast (Crypto commentary)
Best Articles
What is Money, Anyway?
How People Get Rich Now
An MBA in 3 Minutes
The 8 essential steps to making a successful business.
Top 5 Predictors of Career Success
What are the top predictors of career success?
Common Plots of Economic History
Complicated stuff can stem from a handful of common roots.
Navigating the Fed’s Pivot and Recession: A Comprehensive Guide
When will the Fed pivot? Next month? Next year? In 3 years?
Tough Love
The 66 Best Business Books
The best business books covering topics from marketing to finance to productivity.
The 28 Best Books on Finance and Investing
The best books on finance and investing, covering topics from personal finance to cryptocurrencies to tax strategy.
The 55 Best Books on Human Nature
The best books on human nature, covering topics from psychology to philosophy to literature.
The 25 Most Practical STEM Books
The best books on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
What Are The Big 5 Personality Traits?
The Big 5 Personality Traits can be thought of as an updated and improved version of the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.
How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time
If you are an average 30 yr old engineer, let’s say you want to retire reasonably by the time you are 60. A year wasted at a poor job or role is equivalent to you throwing away 3.3% of your career. The older you get, the steeper your loss is.
Russia is considering selling its oil and gas for bitcoin as sanctions intensify from the West
Russia might accept bitcoin as payment for its oil and gas exports as Western countries stiffen their sanctions on Moscow.
Russia Close To Legalizing International Trade In Bitcoin, Crypto: Head Of Finance Committee
The head of the State Duma finance committee reportedly said Russia will legalize the use of cryptocurrency for international trade in January 2023.
Best Books
- Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer
- The Princeton Companion to Mathematics by Timothy Gowers, et al.
- The Daily Laws by Robert Greene
- The School of Life by Alain de Botton
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
- How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
- The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
- Tax-Free Wealth by Tom Wheelwright
Best Songs
- Two Menuets by Toshifumi Hinata (Classical)
- Kill Bill by SZA (R&B)
- Merry Go Round of Life - Slowed (Piano)