Ken Zinser

Favorites

Updated

Some of my favorite people, places, and things. Or, things with the greatest influence on my personality and perspective.


Blogs

Daring Fireball

Brand New

kottke.org

Seth Godin’s Blog

Austin Kleon’s Blog

Rands in Repose

The Marginalian

I use Reeder to manage my RSS feed subscriptions. (What is a feed?) I like the fact that it has a built-in read later service too. NetNewsWire is also great.

Books

The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien

Space Station Seventh Grade
Jerry Spinelli

1Q84
Haruki Murakami

Night
Elie Wiesel

Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist
Peter Hall, Michael Bierut

Several short sentences about writing
Verlyn Klinkenborg

Good Services: How to Design Services That Work
Lou Downe

Stop Stealing Sheep: Find out how type works
Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger

See also Reading list

Podcasts

Back to Work

Roderick on the Line

Reconcilable Differences

The Ezra Klein Show

Radiolab

99% Invisible

Music

Alice in Chains, Jar of Flies

Gorillaz, Demon Days

El Ten Eleven, El Ten Eleven

Radiohead, In Rainbows

Elbow, Giants of All Sizes

Chemical Brothers, No Geography

Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures

The National, Boxer

Video games

Legend of Mana

Shadow of the Colossus

Final Fantasy X

NHL 99

Golden Sun

Grandia II

Spyro the Dragon

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2

SimCity 3000

Kid Chameleon

Advance Wars

Pokémon Blue Version

Myst

Fonts

Franklin Gothic

IBM Plex

iA Writer Quattro

Inter

Apps and services

iA Writer

Deliveries

Everlog

Reeder NetNewsWire

Notes

Overcast

Paper

Reminders

Sublime Text

Blot

Bluehost

GitHub

Hover

iCloud

VoIP.ms OpenPhone

Stuff

Pilot G2 Gel Pen, Fine Point (0.7mm), Blue

Gramco Composition Book, Black Marble Cover, Unruled

Post-it® Super Sticky Notes, 3 in x 3 in, Electric Yellow

Anson Calder Card Wallet with Cash Slot

Movies

Ocean’s 12

Helvetica

Waking Life

Shaun of the Dead

Donnie Darko

The Bourne Identity

See also Letterboxd

TV Shows

Spaced

Frisky Dingo

Legend of Korra

Love on the Spectrum

e² | the economies of being environmentally conscious

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

Beast Wars