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


Videogames

Framed


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


Browser-based tools

Micro Digital Tools
Web based digital tools that work inside your browser.

TinyPNG
Smart WebP, PNG and JPEG compression

Adobe Express Quick Actions Fast and free editing for images, videos, and documents (sign-up required)


Designers

CW&T

Industrial Facility