My Current Media Diet - January 2019

January 5, 2019

Mike Flynn

In the vein of the wonderful and prolific Jason Kottke, I’d like to start sharing my current media diet on my blog. I’m not going to keep track of everything I read, watch, or listen to, but I do think a general review of what I’m consuming would be interesting to others and myself in the future.

Movies

I’m slow on movie intake these days, but we did take the whole family to “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and I throughly enjoyed it. Very funny, the art direction was amazing, and loved the focus on Miles. I can’t wait for the many sequels. I think Sony as finally done something interesting with their Spider-Man license. (To be fair, 2004’s Spider-Man 2 was pretty good, but that whole trilogy has been hopelessly tainted by the atrocious Spider-Man 3)

TV

Outside of “The Office” reruns, I have watched half of the third season of “Daredevil” on Netflix but stalled out over the holidays and then watched the entirety of “Bodyguard” which was really awesome. Best show I’ve watched in a while.

YouTube

As of this moment, I’m tracking some YouTube creator drama, checking out the world of mechanical keyboards and watching people fix old Hot Wheels.

Books

I’ve stalled a bit on my Audible queue in favor of Podcasts, but I’ve started “Countdown to Zero Day” (interesting but pretty dry) and “The Coming Storm” (same).

Games

I beat Far Cry 4 in early December and moved in to Spider-Man on the PS4. On mobile, I’m playing a lot of Alto’s Odyssey while waiting in line or while watching TV.

Podcasts

My usual weekly roster applies:

Music

Current Go-To Spotify Playlists or Albums:

Into the Spider-Verse Soundtrack
90s R&B
The Greatest Showman Soundtrack (played by my family but on my Spotify account)

Media

The Movie Hackers is 20 Years Old and I Still Love It

Every day there’s a new post on Reddit / Hacker News / Twitter / Bloop / Slammy / Buzzfeed about how some thing that we all loved has a nice round birthday and today it was “Hackers”. The cult class is 20 years old. Crazy. I’ve probably watched that movie 100+ times over the last 20 years.

My Current AI Workflow

Sometimes, after rebutting someone’s extreme exuberance over AI or cracking a joke, I feel like people may assume that I don’t like AI or I never use it. That’s not the case at all! I do use it and I integrate it (or advocate for its use) in my CTO role at Ten2 and when consulting but I do take care to use it in situations that make sense, such as text generation, and not places where it doesn’t make sense, such as decision-making.

Social Media

LinkedIn is Going Great

🚨🔥AI will obviously solve everything because hype is never ever wrong. Do you want to know a thing that will help you?! I have an AI thing that does stuff like, I don’t know, let’s say sales or marketing…whatever. It’s amazing though and it won’t be replaced in a matter of days by a new model.