1. Love Like There’s No Tomorrow by The War and Treaty
2. Factfulness
3. Maps
4. Map-based board games: Ticket to Ride, Catan, Pandemic… not Risk
6. Baymax
7. Growing Up by Run River North
8. My Osprey AETHER Backpack (And the POCO AG version for carrying a baby around)
10. Just Mercy/Bryan Stevenson/The Equal Justice Initiative
11. Improv
12. Cape Town
13. Xiao Long Bao
14. Salar de Uyuni
15. Iceland
16. Baobab trees
17. Psych
18. Maple Trees
19. Boxers & Saints
21. The National & St. Vincent’s cover of Sleep All Summer
22. Marylinne Robinson’s Gilead
23. Great Pyrenees
24. Up
25. Brad Montague’s story about a balloon
26. Manifesto: Mad Farmer’s Liberation Front by Wendell Berry
27. Reforestation
28. Café du Monde in New Orleans
31. These San Diego Breweries: Modern Times, Second Chance, Belching Beaver
34. Mezcal
35. The Big Sick
37. The Creative Pep Talk Podcast
38. Geography Quizzes on Sporcle. Especially this one, this one, and this one.
39. Good Eats
40. The Patagonia Nanopuff Jacket
42. Codenames
43. Alpacas
44. Ethiopia
45. Procreate
46. Yasmin Newman’s 7,000 Islands
47. Ben Howard’s Old Pine. And the rest of his Every Kingdom album.
48. Trevor Noah
50. Gallant’s cover of Sufjan Stevens’ Blue Bucket of Gold
51. The Swedish Chef
52. Pub Trivia
53. Kevin Love’s article: Everyone Is Going Through Something
54. Pixar’s Recipe for Good Storytelling
55. Arrival
56. Patagonia. The place, but the brand is nice too.
57. Thomas Merton
58. The Children of Blood and Bone series
59. Nikkolas Smith’s illustrations
60. Mitch Hedberg
61. Pop Chart Co.
63. Italy
64. Mostra Coffee in San Diego
66. My Ice Cream Trinity: Salt & Straw, Jeni’s, McConnell’s
67. Akimbo
69. Amsterdam
71. Growlithe
72. A Map of Salt And Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
73. Malaysian Food
74. Andrew McCutchen
75. Oatmilk… particularly Planet Oat
76. Dunbar’s Number
77. Vampire Weekend
78. Desmond Tutu
80. Dee Gordon’s home run after Jose Fernandez’s death
81. Enneagram 8s. (I’m a 7, but I think healthy 8s are my favorite)
82. Project Drawdown
83. Mangoes. Mango Sticky Rice. This café in San Diego called MNGO.
85. This guide to the depths of the ocean
86. Vermont
87. Pho
89. El Camino de Santiago (bucket list item for sure)
90. Father Greg Boyle / Homeboy Industries / Tattoos on the Heart
92. Coco
93. The Canon M50 mirrorless camera
94. The World Cup
95. Jane Goodall
96. Dan Harmon’s Story Circle (The Hero’s Journey, basically)
97. Blue Star Donuts in Portland
98. This Philosophical Dichotomy Test
100. Commonplace Books in Oklahoma City
101. Yerba Mate
102. This letter from John Steinbeck to his lovesick teenage son.
103. The Book of Common Prayer
104. Montreal
105. New Zealand
106. Pico Iyer’s TED Talk
107. Dave Chang (His podcast, Ugly Delicious, and Breakfast Lunch & Dinner)
108. Pre-SNL stuff from The Lonely Island
109. If the world were 100 people
110. The Dissect Podcast; especially their Kendrick Lamar seasons
111. Ken Griffey Jr. & Ichiro
112. The Tick
113. The Skinny Pancake in Montpelier
114. Public Speaking
115. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
116. Leland Melvin
117. Sufjan Stevens
118. Dwayne Wade (and this commercial celebrating his retirement)
119. This list of 100* ideas from the worlds of philosophy, sociology, economics, and psychology
120. The Oregon Ducks
121. Preemptive Love Coalition
122. The UNESCO Cities of Gastronomy
123. Boyhood
125. The Good Newspaper
126. Pizzeria Magnifica in Rome (arugula, bresola, & burratta pizza)
127. Jurassic 5
128. James Clear (Great on Twitter, via Newsletter, and Atomic Habits)
130. Travel Is No Cure For The Mind by More to That (and this response by Trevor Huffman)
131. Roy Halladay
132. Maptia
133. One Tree Planted
134. CreativeMornings
136. Large live-edge dining tables
137. Reconciliation stories from Rwanda
139. Surprise Yourself by Jack Garratt (and its music video)
140. Philippine Eagles
142. These African culture emojis
143. That thing Ira Glass said about taste and creativity
144. The KBO (Korean Baseball) & NPL (Japanese Baseball)
145. Chopped
146. The Interfaith Rainforest Initiative
147. The Sierra Nevadas
148. North Cack by G. Yamazawa (for running, workouts, & such)