Making Media
Episode 23 Top Content of 2023
Making Media

Episode 23: Top Content of 2023

Making Media

Episode 23

Top Content of 2023

Web Barr is an award-winning producer. We cover his discovery process for great content, our favorite media of the year so far, and lessons from great personalities in art and business.

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(00:03:06) - (First question) - How Web curates his media for recommendations

(00:04:21) - Web’s previous recommendation to read the screenplay for Get Out
(00:05:58) - Web explains why he enjoys reading screenplays eg. Interstellar and Everything Everywhere All At Once   

Podcasts

(00:07:19) - Web: Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin. Guest: Jimmy Iovine

(00:13:19) - Dom: One Perfect Story: Wright Thompson on Writing about Michael Jordan

(00:17:16) - Matt: The Rewatchables: Whiplash with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessy

Books

(00:22:00) - Web: The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew

(00:27:48) - Dom: Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

(00:30:18) - Matt: Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maitre D’

Movies

(00:34:24) - Web: BlackBerry

(00:38:25) - Dom: Ed Sheeran: The Sum of it All
Articles

(00:44:26) - Web: How Much More Netflix Can the World Absorb

(00:50:07) - Dom: I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Factory

(00:52:37) - Matt: The Return of James Cameron, Box Office King

Top Content of 2023

Introduction

Matt
All right. Welcome back to Making Media. We're back sharing some of our favorite content. This is going to be an episode with a similar structure to what we did with Packy McCormick. You remember, a couple of months ago, we ranked our favorite business essays of all time. This go around, we're actually getting more current rather than going deep into the archives and basically running through our favorite content across various mediums that we've consumed this year.

Joining us today is Mr. Web Barr. I like to say that we all live in an echo chamber. I see the same books, the same movies, the same articles referenced over and over. And then late last year, I found Web and I found Web's blog that -- he doesn't write on too often but when he does, it's loaded with suggestions. I found Web's Twitter profile. And Web basically unloads countless options for content to consume that you're not seeing elsewhere. So with that grand entrance, Web, thank you for joining us.

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