Q:Favorite books, podcasts, movies, etc.

• Peixoco, where you can eat the best choco-frito in Portugal.
• NPR Tiny Desk, because music is life.
• And being in nature, always.

I’m a person of simple pleasures, and that’s where most of my inspiration comes from: quiet moments, good food, good sound, and the world outside a screen.

Movies:

• Noi the Albino
• The Band's Visit
• Gummo

Books:

• “In the Land of White Death” by Valerian Albanov and David Roberts
• “An Incomplete Education” by Judy Jones and William Wilson
• “A Pattern Language” by Christopher W. Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein
• “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams – c’mon!

• “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick
• Blade Runner

Podcasts:

• 99% Invisible
• Team Deakins
• Go Creative Show

Books:

• “Red Rising” series by Pierce Brown
• “Revelation Space” by Alastair Reynolds

Movies:

• Incendies
• Last Year in Marienbad

I’ll name a few recent reads (and re-reads) that stuck with me:

• “Good Material” by Dolly Alderton
• “The Tartar Steppe” by Dino Buzzati
• “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963” by Susan Sontag
• “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” by Richard P. Feynman
• “1913: The Year Before the Storm” by Florian Illies

And two films that really stayed with me recently:

• Sing Sing
• The Holdovers

• “What Narcissism Means To Me” by Tony Hoagland (his poems hit)
• Lex Fridman Podcast

Visit as many museums around the world as you can, and learn how to engage in dialogue with them. Museums are the highest form of cultural organization — they embody current trends, innovative solutions, and global vision. If you can interpret that experience in your work or for your clients, you’ll always stay one step ahead.

• “Dirty Gens” by Ben Lynch
• “Atomic Habits” by James Clear
• “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens
• #безфильтров

“The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self” by Martha Beck

“The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood”, a book by James Gleick; 3Blue1Brown, YouTube channel covering different math topics.

Podcasts:

• Почему мы еще живы
• У холмов есть подкаст

Books:

• “A man called Ove” by Fredrik Backman.

Movies:

• Dune, Dune 2
• Snatch
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Harry Potter — always believe you are special, “Quantum Warrior” by John Kehoe — all is possible if you train your mind.

I’d recommend every entrepreneur read these two books: “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work” by Basecamp founder Jason Fried, and “How to Be Bored” by Eva Hoffman.

Movies about badass women who inspire to pave your way:

• Erin Brockovich
• Legally Blonde
• Sex and The City