2025 Wrapped

A recap of the movies, books, music, and ideas I loved in 2025

Helloooo

2025 was a year of stories, on screens, in books, in podcasts, and in late-night rabbit holes. Some made me think, some inspired me, and others simply kept me company. Here are the films, shows, books, blogs, and artists that shaped my year… and maybe they’ll shape yours too.

Movies:

• Kaasav (2017)

• Blood Diamond (2006)

• Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)

• Meiyazhagan (2024)

• The Imitation Game (2014)

• Godavari (2021)

• Kishkindha Kaandam (2024)

Series:

• Ted Lasso (I have yapped about this series so much)

• 3 Body Problem (I have some thoughts about the Quantum Entanglement concept here, but fine)

• Pluribus (Too early to comment on this one)

Books:

• Love in the Time of Cholera

• Angles and Demons

• To Kill a Mockingbird

Documentaries:

• The Thinking Game

• The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Blogs, Articles, Newsletters:

• Finshots - something that I start my day with

• Quanta Magazine - I have no words for this

• Ness Labs - Fantastic stories by Anne

• AI by Hand - Thanks Prof. Tom Yeh for this masterpiece

• Understanding AI - My first Substack article that I read was by Timothy B. Lee

• Interconnects - love it Nathan Lambert

• Gwern’s Blog

• pudding.cool

• Paul Graham’s essays

• latent.space

Podcasts and YT channels:

• All in Podcast

• Dwarkesh Patel

• Sabine Hossenfelder

• Townsends

• Technology Connections

• Arvin Ash

Music Artists:

• ROLE MODEL

• Ethel Cain

• Hanumankind

• Fred Again

• Taba Chake

• Reble

And, that’s a wrap for today.

To a peaceful year ahead. And many more to come.

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Have a Good one💖