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I'm Justin Duke — a software engineer, writer, and founder. I currently work as the CEO of Buttondown, the best way to start and grow your newsletter, and as a partner at Third South Capital.

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The Club Dumas The Game The Outsiders Wake Up Dead Man A Few Good Men A Legacy of Spies A Necklace of Bees A Shadow Intelligence A Spy Among Friends A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Across the Spiderverse Attack on Titan (Season 2) Avengers: Endgame Avengers: Infinity War Bad Blood Being John Malkovich Big Night Black Panther Bojack Horseman The Bourne Legacy Brotato Cafe Society Cameraperson Captain America: Civil War Captain Marvel Chainsaw Man (Season 1) Chinatown Chrono Trigger Command Z Conclave Creed Croupier Death on the Nile Die Hard Diner Disco Elysium Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Dunkirk Earthbound Economic Fables F9 Fracture Frost / Nixon Go Hamnet Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix High Flying Bird Hijack Hocus Pocus 2 Hocus Pocus Homicide How I Met Your Father How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy I Am Not Your Negro I Served the King of England Idaho Industry (Season 2) Into the Spiderverse It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Kitchen Confidential Knives Out Late Developers Like a Beggar Man's Search for Meaning Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Medium Raw Michael Clayton Molly's Game Moneyball Moonlight Murderville Neuromancer (Sprawl, Night Moves No Filter No One Writes To The Colonel No Time To Die Norse Mythology Notes of a Native Son Oresteia Out of Sight Paddington 2 Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds Parasite Path to Power Piranesi Presumed Innocent Quantum of Solace Rabbit, Run Rashomon Red Sparrow Rounders Scott Pilgrim vs. The World See How They Run Shoe Dog Slacker Snow Crash So Sad Today Song to Song Spirited Away Star Wars: The Force Awakens Start Small, Stay Small State of Play Super Pumped Superforecasting Synecdoche, New York Team Tenet The Batman The Boys in the Boat The Candidate The Chapo Guide To Revolution The Colossus of New York The Cuckoo''s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage The Dark Knight Rises The Dark Knight The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me The Diamond Age The Diplomat The Elements of Color The Fire Next Time The Firm The Godfather The Gray Man The Great Beanie Baby Bubble The Ipcress File The Kingdom The MANIAC The Minstrel Show The Name of the Rose The Secret Life of Groceries The Song of Achilles The Spanish Prisoner The Stranger The Third Man The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch The Years of Rice and Salt Thor: Ragnarok Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) To Catch A Thief Tower Heist Traffic The Vinland Saga (Season 2) Waltz for Debby Watchmen We Are Your Friends Wild Things Wonder Woman X-Men: Days of Future Past Zodiac Eternity Attack on Titan (Season 3) BlackBerry Goldfinger Joker Killers of the Flower Moon Liberal Arts No Hard Feelings Oppenheimer The Super Mario Bros. Movie Vampire Survivors A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Leave the Bones The Conversation Gris Hunt the Slipper\t Casino Royale Don't Think Twice Fletch Gemini Rights Girt House of Games Impro Last Words from Montmartre Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack Paris, Texas Pentiment Phantom Thread Pillow Talk Primal Fear Russian Doll (Season 2) Second Place The American Friend The Importance of Being Earnest The Irishman The Killing The Master Trouble in Paradise Walking to Martha's Vineyard Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? You Can't Win Lanny Top Gun: Maverick The Bear (Season 2) The Cult of We My Dinner With Andre Rear Window Flash Boys Animal Man Basketball (and other Things) Big Sur Bodies Bodies Bodies Deep Work Drinking Buddies Lessons from the Titans Like That Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro Moral Mazes On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Seeing Like A State The City We Became The Killer The New York Trilogy The Other Guys St. Elmo's Fire The Loneliest Time Mountain Music The Prince The White Calf Kicks What Work Is Juvenile Klute Space Struck The Farmer's Hotel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy The Great Gatsby Champagne for Breakfast Circe Mob Psycho 100 (Season 3) The Emperor's Soul In The Mood for Love Some Like It Hot Challengers Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Touch of Evil The Poem of the Cid The Checklist Manifesto The Coming Storm Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Ripley The Age of Pleasure Seattle City of Literature Moonflower Murders Poker Face Paprika Dune If Beale Street Could Talk Designing for People Win It All Vertigo A Silence Shared Ducks, Newburyport Pale Fire The London Scene Baby Driver Scaling People Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers Carol Einstein's Dreams Obviously Awesome Life after Life The Aeneid The Castle Dept. of Speculation Good Services Cat's Cradle The Quiet American The Iliad Bright Dead Things The Circle Parnassus on Wheels Dim The Fluorescents Passage of Power Asteroid City Slaughterhouse-Five Anxious People Dune: Part 2 Breakneck In The Pockets of Small Gods The Next Loves The Green Knight Killing and Dying: Stories That! Feels Good! Charade Oddtaxi Player Piano Radical Markets American Beauty Calypso Grief is the Thing with Feathers Princess Mononoke Silverview The Pigeon Tunnel The Secret History The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Scaring the Hoes NBA Jam: The Book The Idiot Utopia of Rules Algorithms to Live By Mad Men Pnin The First Two Pages of Frankenstein The Need to Hold Still The Notebook The Score Takes Care Of Itself 1Q84 Between the World and Me Flood! Forty Stories Lover Come Back The End is Always Near The Favourite Three Days of the Condor When Harry Met Sally Breasts and Eggs Adam's Rib As Little Design as Possible Between the Lines Cadence & Slang Getting Things Done If On A Winter's Night A Traveler In The End It Always Does Konnichiwa Lady Bird Love Hard Money Plane Roman Holiday Strong Island The Hudsucker Proxy The In-Laws The Lobster The Odyssey The Rise of Skywalker The Storm Before The Storm Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould The Holdovers Barbie Before Sunrise Boom Town Bringing Up Baby Chess Story Coventry Do Revenge Four Thousand Weeks I Think You Should Leave (Season 3) Logan Mexico Set Modern Romance Music for Living Spaces On Bullshit Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood Reconstruction Site Solo The Clasp The Little Book of Hygge The Nice Guys The Shop Around The Corner The Tatami Galaxy The Tragedy of Macbeth The Woman in the Dunes Transit Visual Explanations 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers A Fish Called Wanda A Gentleman in Moscow A Glossary of Chickens A philosophy of walking A Rainy Day In New York A Spell of Songs A Wild Sheep Chase Air Ametora Amp It Up Are You Listening? Atomic Habits Austerlitz Bandit Bird by Bird Blue Jasmine Botchan Bright Size Life Broadcast News Building Stories Cable Cowboy Caffeine Capote Catch Me If You Can Clerks Cunk on Earth Dance Dance Dance Deathtrap Desk Set Dirty Dancing Do: Inhabit Drive My Car Duplicity Emma Entourage Envisioning Information Ethics in the Real World Every Day Is for the Thief Expecting Better Family Plot Final Fantasy IX Final Fantasy Tactics Final Fantasy VI Frieren: Beyond Journey''s End (Season 1) Game Night Garden State Ghost in the Shell: Solid State God-Level Knowledge Darts Godzilla Minus One Hannah and her Sisters Hit Man I Don't Give A Fuck About This Rap Shit Imma Just Drop Until I Don't Feel Like It Anymore In A Lonely Place Intolerable Cruelty Invisible Cities Isle of Dogs Key Largo Kids on the Slope Kiki's Delivery Service Killing Commendatore Kudos Levels of the Game Liberation Day Little Labors Love Deluxe Love Poems Lush Life Marriage Story Means of Ascent Much Ado About Nothing My Brilliant Friend Net Gains Never Let Me Go Night is Short, Walk On Girl North by Northwest Ocean's Eleven Ocean's Twelve Ogilvy on Advertising Only Yesterday Parenthood Party Down (Season 3) Patience Pattern Recognition Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Plainwater Profit-First Promare Roma Rope S. Saga Set It Up Shape Up Skin in the Game Snack Shack Sneakers So Shall You Reap Spy Hook Spy Line Steins;Gate: The Movie Summer Wars Sunday at the Village Vanguard Super Squats Tenth of December Thank You For Smoking That Thing You Do! The Art of Discarding The Beautiful Struggle The Big Sick The Castle of Crossed Destinies The City & The City The Devil Wears Prada The E-Myth Revisited The End of Policing The First Great Train Robbery The Fog Of War The Gentlemen The Good Soldier Svejk The Green Helmet and Other Poems The Holiday The Informant! The King In Yellow The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart The Last Wolf The Late Show The Man Who Wasn't There The Mezzanine The Mom Test The Murdering of My Years The Night Manager The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories The Phoenix Project The Postman Always Rings Twice The Remains of the Day The Screwtape Letters The Spy Who Came In From The Cold The Thirty-Nine Steps The Unicorn Project The Wise and Foolish Builders The Woman Called Fujiko Mine These Days They Came Together Thinking in Systems This is Personal Uncanny Valley Vectors Virtual Muse: Experiments In Computer Poetry Ways of Seeing Weathering With You Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Winners Take All Wolfs Wonder Woman 84 Work Clean Working Your Name Tabula Rasa (Vol. 1) After The Thin Man Against the Grain Arsenic & Old Lace Autobiography of Red Berlin Game Bringing up Bebe Confess, Fletch Days of Rage Desire Everybody Wants Some!! Everybody's in L.A. Ham on Rye Heaven Joy at Work Laugh Track Little Eyes London Match Marcovaldo Mr. and Mrs. Smith Novelist as a Vocation One Human Minute Sapiens Six Memos for the Next Millenium Slouching Towards Bethlehem Stardust Syriana The Anderson Tapes The Archive of Alternative Endings The Faraway Nearby The Flamethrowers The Friend The Meyerowitz Stories The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Parallax View The White Album The Year of Magical Thinking Thoughts on Design Varieties of Disturbance West Side Story What Money Can't Buy What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows Three Feet High and Rising 31 Poems Becoming Trader Joe Bestiary Blue Eye Samurai Devs HHhH It's a Wonderful Life No One Belongs Here More Than You No Way Out Sugar The Awful Truth The Signal and the Noise Ubik The Life and Death of Great American Cities Blitzed The Hunting Gun You Can't Take It With You Unreasonable Hospitality Cloud Atlas Infinite Jest Liar's Poker Lahai Logan Lucky Sleuth The Fall Guy East of Eden Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming South and West White Noise Cribsheet The Searcher Make Time Digital Minimalism Holiday Something Bright, Then Holes Ficciones Letters to a Young Poet Philomena Book of Men To the Lighthouse Le Samourai Sister Outsider Middlemarch Book of Clouds The Everything Store The Lego Batman Movie What Next, Old Knife? The Supper of the Lamb Selected Poems West The Only Rule Is It Has to Work Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Legend of the Galactic Heroes Legend of the Galactic Heroes Anais Mitchell Dune (2021) Juliana Madrid EP The Thomas Crown Affair Letters Breakfast of Champions Norwegian Wood The Case of the Golden Idol One Hundred Years of Solitude London Fields First Person Singular Topics of Conversation Dear Friend, from My Life I Write To You In Your Life Shortcomings The Story Of A New Name Palm Springs Trust Creation Lake Certified Copy Kokoro There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce The Philadelphia Story Attack on Titan (Season 4) HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Long Story Short My Neighbor Totoro No Sudden Move Top Gun Build Yourself a Boat Charmed Sense & Sensibility The Ghost 7 Powers The Social Network When My Brother Was an Aztec Belle Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Full Circle Lincoln in the Bardo Secret Mall Apartment The Caine Mutiny The Grinch Stories of Your Life and Others Working Backwards The Netanyahus American Cheese Bluets Nightly, At The Institute of the Possible The Night Manager A Moveable Feast I, Claudius Poirot and Me Murder, My Sweet This Side of Paradise The Three-Body Problem Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic It Happened One Night Clouds of Sils Maria Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor Licorice Pizza No One Walks Water The Farewell Transcription Glass Onion the record So We Read On Midnight in Paris 300 Arguments They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Where I Was From Black Bag American Gods Call Me By Your Name Ponyo Blue Hallelujahs Crooked House I Remember A Farewell to Arms Jury Duty What Are You Going Through Bullshit Jobs The Design of Everyday Things Whisper of the Heart The Goal From Up On Poppy Hill Break it Down The First Ninety Days A Serious Man Beowulf You Never Forget Your First Chop Wood, Carry Water Zero to One Kafka on the Shore Convenience Store Woman Waiting for Guffman Normal People Always Be My Maybe Making Work Visible A Visit From The Goon Squad softscars Status Anxiety The Swimmers Mob Psycho 100 (Season 2) The French Dispatch Case Histories Heat Small is Beautiful Mary, Queen of Scots Happy Endings Ikigai The Thin Man Look Alive Out There The Boys The Architecture of Happiness The Art of Travel Find Me Falling Love & Friendship Moby-Dick Postwar Tears of the Kingdom A Random Walk Down Wall Street Cousin The Princess Bride 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of... So Much (For) Stardust Nordic Theory of Everything The Jordan Rules An Absolutely Remarkable Thing Halloweentown The Decline And Fall Of Practically Everybody High Output Management Destiny Howl's Moving Castle Hustle Avatar: The Way of Water Station Eleven The Queen's Gambit Ori and the Blind Forest The Midnight Library Dark Things Dazed and Confused Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Blade Runner 2049 La La Land Looper The Ocean at the End of the Lane We Will Always Love You What We Do In The Shadows (Season 4) The Diplomat (Season 2) Microserfs Motel of the Mysteries Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers Radio Days Spiderman: Homecoming The Lego Movie 2 The Nightmare Before Christmas What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Cowboy Bebop CrossCode Sharks in the River The Bell Jar Sorry to Bother You No One Is Talking About This Infinite Spring Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory. The Forgery Take Ivy Klara and the Sun An Everlasting Meal Barbarians at the Gate South of the Border, West of the Sun Master of the Senate Interior Chinatown The Death of Stalin Sputnik Sweetheart Everything Everywhere All At Once Celeste Cult Classic Bocchi the Rock