Mega Ranking List of Everything

well, almost everything.

These are my ratings (0-10) of how great it is to know of and more or less understand each thing, perhaps by experiencing it.

These are not ratings of subjecive efficacy. An illustrative example: Carolina Reaper chilis. Highly effective at summoning mouthfuls of misery. If you don’t enjoy that—like most people— you are equally well-off with or without that power. So despite them being very potent, their rating should be about 5, or neutral. (Maybe they deserve more credit - I don’t particularly want to find out.)

Rankings

Bahama Mama GFuel - 10/10
Branch Education - 10/10
hayd3nplz combos - 10/10
water - 10/10
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - 9.9/10
Hacker News - 9.8/10
humility - 9.8/10
Soreption (with Anton Svedin) - 9.8/10
Breaking Bad - 9.7/10
octopuses - 9.7/10
Austin Powers (series) - 9.6/10
gratitude - 9.6/10
Stoicism - 9.6/10
YouTube - 9.6/10
dogs - 9.5/10
rain - 9.4/10
Wikipedia - 9.4/10
3Blue1Brown - 9.3/10
generative AI - 9.3/10
Pixar movies - 9.3/10
Reddit - 9.3/10
absurdity - 9.2/10
cats - 9.2/10
college (undergraduate) - 9.2/10
mantis shrimp - 9.2/10
music of Ron Jarzombek (mixed acts) - 9.2/10
Vim - 9.2/10
Halo: Reach - 9.1/10
IFC Yipes commentary - 9.1/10
Necrophagist - 9.1/10
Pollo Tropical - 9.1/10
silence - 9.1/10
sushi - 9.1/10
The Big Lebowski - 9.1/10
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers - 9/10
bhākarwadi - 9/10
cows - 9/10
May (month) - 9/10
music of James Brown - 9/10
podcasts - 9/10
Python - 9/10
telescope.nvim - 9/10
video game glitches - 9/10
Wii - 9/10
100% passing test suite - 8.9/10
An Endless Sporadic - 8.9/10
big band - 8.9/10
cht.sh - 8.9/10
Nintendo - 8.9/10
pinch harmonics - 8.9/10
Praise the Sun - 8.9/10
The Emperor's New Groove - 8.9/10
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt - 8.9/10
Xbox 360 - 8.9/10
Xbox Live (in its heyday) - 8.9/10
AutoHotkey - 8.8/10
caterpillars - 8.8/10
Chapel Hill Public Library - 8.8/10
Curb Your Enthusiasm - 8.8/10
Depths of Wikipedia - 8.8/10
fire - 8.8/10
goats - 8.8/10
kettlebell swings - 8.8/10
Linode (Akamai) - 8.8/10
lions - 8.8/10
Madagascar - 8.8/10
music of Mark Lettieri - 8.8/10
press rolls (more points for smoothness) - 8.8/10
Sriracha - 8.8/10
The Matrix - 8.8/10
"Souls" games - 8.7/10
Figma - 8.7/10
Greek yogurt - 8.7/10
LC-dolida bluetooth headband - 8.7/10
LG Gram 16" Intel i7 16GB LPDDR4X 512GB laptop - 8.7/10
The Binding of Isaac - 8.7/10
the Internet - 8.7/10
The Simpsons - 8.7/10
fresh guacamole - 8.6/10
git - 8.6/10
iPhone - 8.6/10
Neovim - 8.6/10
spicy vocabulary - 8.6/10
VersaClimber machines - 8.6/10
VS Code - 8.6/10
lasers - 8.5/10
late night coding - 8.5/10
Venetian Snares - 8.5/10
whiteboards - 8.5/10
bucket hats - 8.4/10
Hyprland - 8.4/10
Jaco Pastorius - 8.4/10
mango - 8.4/10
Packet Tracer - 8.4/10
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert - 8.4/10
ThinkOrSwim - 8.4/10
tiling window managers - 8.4/10
ants - 8.3/10
AstroJS - 8.3/10
Pendulum - 8.3/10
Snarky Puppy - 8.3/10
Spelunky - 8.3/10
tamarind - 8.3/10
The Wire - 8.3/10
green - 8.2/10
Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman - 8.2/10
Metallica - 8.2/10
Netlify - 8.2/10
ragdoll physics - 8.2/10
Superbad - 8.2/10
The Flashbulb - 8.2/10
writing (process) - 8.2/10
gongs - 8.1/10
lava lamps - 8.1/10
Microsoft - 8.1/10
Obsidian - 8.1/10
Scooby Doo - 8.1/10
spearmint - 8.1/10
Stack Exchange - 8.1/10
April - 8/10
boba - 8/10
Darknet Diaries - 8/10
documentaries - 8/10
elementary school - 8/10
Go(lang) - 8/10
Google Chrome DevTools - 8/10
Halo 4 - 8/10
June - 8/10
palm trees - 8/10
payment cards (as opposed to paper bills and coins) - 8/10
pineapple - 8/10
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz - 8/10
Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss - 8/10
Twitter before 2022 - 8/10
blue - 7.9/10
chess - 7.9/10
dry humor - 7.9/10
propeller hats - 7.9/10
rainbows - 7.9/10
the Olympics - 7.9/10
tzatziki - 7.9/10
90s rap - 7.8/10
calisthenics - 7.8/10
Deep Work by Cal Newport - 7.8/10
ginger ale - 7.8/10
March - 7.8/10
reading - 7.8/10
shader art - 7.8/10
slippers - 7.8/10
SQL - 7.8/10
SSH - 7.8/10
The Eric Andre Show - 7.8/10
trading - 7.8/10
ultimate frisbee - 7.8/10
Bluetooth - 7.7/10
Meshuggah - 7.7/10
MIT Open CourseWare - 7.7/10
pickled cabbage - 7.7/10
Pokémon - 7.7/10
Popeyes - 7.7/10
cacti - 7.6/10
chocolate - 7.6/10
cloud computing - 7.6/10
Dexter (s. 1-4) - 7.6/10
LEGOs - 7.6/10
onomatopoeia - 7.6/10
SVG - 7.6/10
sweatpants - 7.6/10
bubble wrap - 7.5/10
DnB that isn't Pendulum - 7.5/10
forks - 7.5/10
Google Docs - 7.5/10
July - 7.5/10
Khan Academy - 7.5/10
Nerf guns - 7.5/10
PB n banana smoothies - 7.5/10
peanuts - 7.5/10
poker - 7.5/10
purple - 7.5/10
Spelunky 2 - 7.5/10
TailwindCSS - 7.5/10
wordreference.com - 7.5/10
anthropomorphism - 7.4/10
Apple - 7.4/10
boxing - 7.4/10
Cookout - 7.4/10
Discord - 7.4/10
grapefruit - 7.4/10
pizza - 7.4/10
Tap Tap Revenge - 7.4/10
Anki - 7.3/10
NC beaches - 7.3/10
overhead fans - 7.3/10
TypeScript - 7.3/10
Waffle House - 7.3/10
draw.io - 7.2/10
jello - 7.2/10
orange - 7.2/10
perfectly "peeling" a hard-boiled egg - 7.2/10
Railway.app (as of roughly early 2023) - 7.2/10
RSS - 7.2/10
Tower of Hanoi - 7.2/10
Tower of Power - 7.2/10
waffles - 7.2/10
gloves (latex) - 7/10
Google - 7/10
high school - 7/10
HIIT sprints - 7/10
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell - 7/10
red - 7/10
secret handshakes - 7/10
socks - 7/10
Spirited Away - 7/10
carrots - 6.9/10
earplugs - 6.9/10
Notion - 6.9/10
TED Talks - 6.9/10
Tetris - 6.9/10
zippers - 6.9/10
pine trees - 6.8/10
trampolines - 6.8/10
polymorphism - 6.7/10
ReactJS - 6.7/10
yellow - 6.7/10
shoes - 6.6/10
TD Ameritrade - 6.6/10
August - 6.5/10
gloves (leather) - 6.5/10
Planet Fitness - 6.5/10
velcro - 6.5/10
JavaScript - 6.3/10
apple (fruit) - 6.1/10
brick (material) - 6.1/10
Skee-Ball - 6.1/10
Chapel Hill, NC - 6/10
gloves (cloth, wool) - 6/10
middle school - 6/10
photography - 6/10
tennis - 6/10
Clean Code by Robert Martin - 5.9/10
interviews - 5.9/10
NextJS (as of 2/8/23) - 5.8/10
bookmarklets - 5.5/10
post-90s rap - 5.5/10
pride - 5.5/10
January - 5/10
September - 5/10
wind - 4.95/10
MS Word - 4.9/10
eyelashes - 4.8/10
Hugo SSG - 4.8/10
New York City - 4.5/10
pollen - 4.5/10
jazz - 4.1/10
December - 4/10
designing UIs - 4/10
February - 4/10
phone calls - 4/10
The Wolf of Wall Street - 3.5/10
insomnia - 3.3/10
cable TV - 3.2/10
early mornings - 3/10
October - 3/10
traffic - 3/10
moving (homes) - 2.9/10
anxiety - 2.5/10
hold music - 2.4/10
Bradford pear trees - 2/10
November - 2/10
Rick and Morty - 2/10
small talk - 2/10
airports - 1.5/10
mega extroverts - 1.5/10
DMV (office) - 1/10
egg shells - 1/10
loud, incessant noises - 1/10
Twitter after 2022 - 1/10
cockroaches - 0.75/10
LinkedIn - 0.75/10
crazy drivers - 0.25/10
high frequency trading - 0.15/10
natural disasters - 0.05/10
allergies - 0/10
reaction videos - 0/10
troubleshooting printer problems - literal hell on earth/10

It's really hard to assign one number to some of these. Like the Internet, which simultaneously amplifies the best things in life for one person and immerses someone else in the worst, most depraved and reprehensible parts... I give more weight to theoretical best than theoretical worst.