Adam Stoner
Recommendations from 2020
I’ve collated my favourite albums, books, podcasts, TV shows and things I’ve purchased in 2020 all in one place.
Favourites from 2020:
Music
- Notes on a Conditional Form by The 1975
- Petals for Armor by Hayley Williams
- Folklore by Taylor Swift
- In The Darkest of Nights, Let The Birds Sing (EP) by Foster The People
- McCartney III by Paul McCartney
There’s loads more music recommendations in this Apple Music playlist I’ve made.
Books and audiobooks
- Warhol: A Life As Art by Blake Gopnik
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelis
- The Monocle Book of Gentle Living by Monocle
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games series) by Suzanne Collins
Podcasts – I’m a little biased here; I work on most of these.
- Activity Quest from Fun Kids
- Stuck at Home from Fun Kids (Season 1 in the Activity Quest feed)
- The Globalist from Monocle 24
- The Week Junior Show from Fun Kids and The Week Junior
- The Minimalists Private Podcast from The Minimalists ($2 USD per month on Patreon)
TV shows and movies – I don’t watch a lot of stuff so not all of these things were released in 2020, just the first three
- Criminal (Netflix Original)
- 60 Days In (via Apple TV)
- I Am Greta (via Apple TV)
- Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame (via Disney+)
- The Imitation Game (via Netflix)
Products
- iPhone 12 Mini (Product RED)
- Apple Watch Series 6 (Product RED)
- BRÄDA laptop stand from IKEA (and a pack of velcro, to attach my many Samsung T5 SSD hard drives to it)
- iPhone SE (Product RED) – I swapped this for the iPhone 12 Mini in November
- Rozu Eau de Parfum by Aesop
Digital products and subscriptions
- Avid Pro Tools
- Ghost(Pro) – the very thing adamstoner.com is hosted on
- Podcast.co – also where I host my podcast
- Apple One (Apple Music, TV+, News+, Fitness+, Arcade and 2TB of iCloud storage)
- Tresorit
24 Dec 2020