Favorite Things

Members of Uncommon were asked to share their 10 favorite things in the world. Not an easy question!  

We grativitate toward people, places, and products with which we share an uncommon commonality.

—Adam M. Grant, Give and Take

Enjoy this window into the uncommon we have in uncommon.

Uncommon in Common's Favorite Things

“This is Water” by David Foster Wallace
“The Shape of Design” by Frank Chimero
400 blows
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
A cafe that serves a good espresso
A Cheeseburger
A Pilot Hi-tech 0.5mm pen
Accordions
Alabama Gulf Coast
“American Gods” by Neil Gaiman
An Equal Music
Analogue Technology
“Anansi Boys” by Neil Gaiman
Animals
Annie Dillard
Arsenal F.C.
Art Museums
Atlanta
Austin, Texas
Autumn
Back Porches
Baking
Balls
Baths
Beautiful Pianos
Being on stage
Berlin
Binge-Watching TV Dramas
Birthdays
Board Games
Books
Bookstores
Born to Run
Brandy Snifter
Bread
Bret Victor
Bubble Milk Tea
C.S. Lewis
Cabel Sasser’s XOXO 2013 Talk
Calculus
Cats
Charity
Cheese
Chemex
Chessboard
Chickalicious Dessert Bar
Children
Children’s Books
Chocolate
Clammbon
Climbing at Planet Granite
Clouds
Cloudy days
Cocktails
Coding
Coffee
Coming home
Computers
Connecting people
Connection
Contentment
Conversations
Cooking for People
Corgis
Creating Things
Creativity
Cross-stitch
Crushes
Curling up with a good book
Cycling
Dan Dennet
Daniel Kitson
David Foster Wallace
David Hockney
Dawn Chill
Daydreaming
Design
Dinosaur Comics
Dirty Dancing
Disneyland
DJ Shadow’s In Tune and On Time
Donovan
Dorothy L. Sayers’ Mysteries
Dresden Codak
Driving
Eating Out
Elbow
Electronic music
Elephants
Elvis
Encouragement
English Puddings
Escapism
Evolutionary Psychology
Exploring My City
Family
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fencing
Fictional futurism
FIRO theory
Fluff
Food
Food Trucks
Forests
Free Culture Movement
Friends
Front Porches
Fruit
Fruits of the Forest Pie
Gaining skill
Game nights
Games
Garden
Getting to know my family
GNU/Linux
Going to the Movies
Gray Skies
Green Tea
Groundhog day
Halloween
Happiness
Haribo
Hiking
Hip-Hop Lyricism
Hockey
Icelandic Horses
Infinite Jest
Interactive Storytelling
Interlibrary Loans
Introducing People
Invisible Monsters
J.R.R. Tolkien
John Scalzi
Jokes
Journaling
Ken Robinson’s First TED Talk
Language
Learning
Leaving the city
Letting go and laughing
Libraries
Lila
Linguistic Heirlooms
Lists
Literature
Longform Podcast
Magic’s Pawn
Making gingerbread
Making things
Marriage
Math
Mazda Miata
Meditation
Melbourne
Mid-Day surprise nap
Milian
Minneapolis
Misty Mountains
Mobiles
Moleskine Journal
Moments of clarity
Monet
Moondog
Moss
Motorcycles
Mountains
Mumbo Jumbo
Music
Music that is Loud but Ignorable
Natchez, MS
Nessa Scarf
Netflix
New Orleans Brass
New Toothbrush Day
New York City
Night Driving in Mist
Nintendo
Nirvana Unplugged in New York
Oklahoma City, OK
Old libraries
One Page Websites
Painting
Papagayo
Parenthood
Paris
Parkour
Parks
Pearl Jam
People
Petrichor
Philosophy
Physics
Playing guitar
Playing video games with others
Poetry
Portland, Oregon
Prince of Persia
Programming
Public Libraries
Questions
Radiohead
Railroad Earth
Rain
Reading
Reading Fiction
Red Wine
Relaxation
Retrospective understanding
Road Cycling
Rock Climbing
Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île
Rome, Italy
Rotring 600 0,7mm
Ruby
Running
Running Shoes
“Sacred Economics” by Charles Eisenstein
Saturday Mornings
Scripts Not Taken
Seasons
Shakespeare
Siblings
Singing
Singing harmonies
Skipping the small talk
Skylarking
Sleater-Kinney
Smoked Gouda
Smoking a Pipe
Snowboarding
Snowcones
Snowpine Lodge
Soap
Soccer
Solidarity
Solving mysteries
Space
Specialists
Star Trek
Star Wars
Stickbugs
Stop Making Sense
Stories
Strasbourg
Strathmore Sketch 400 Series
Strawberry, AZ
Studio Ghibli Films
Summer Camp
Sunny Day
Sunrises and Sunsets
Sunset
Sunset Over the Pacific Ocean
Sunshine
Super Mario
Surfing
Tacos
Taft Point
Tea
Teaching
Tearjerker Movies
TED Talks
The Art of Possibility
The Beach
The Beatles
The Boundary Waters
The Complete Sylvie and Bruno
“The Curse Of Chalion” by Lois Bujold
The Dispossessed
The Farmer's Market
The Five Star Stories
The Foo Fighters
The Giver
The Grateful Dead
The Internet
The Island at the Center of the World
The Labyrinth
The Lightbulb Moment
The Mountains
The Name of the Wind
The New Yorker
The Ocean
The Outdoors
The Outrun
The Princess Bride
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Republic of Tea (book)
“The River Why” by David James Duncan
The sea
The Shower
The Smell of Asphalt After Rain
The Sun
The Sydney Opera House
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Web
The West Wing
The Westing Game
The Wind
“The Writing Life” by Annie Dillard
They Might Be Giants
Thoughts on paper
Thunderbird Coffee
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms at Night
Tiger lillies
Tobias Wolff
Tomato and Miracle Whip Sandwiches
Trains
Travel
Trees
Twin Peaks
Typography
U2
Ultimate Frisbee
Uncommon
Using my creative side
Vallecito Creek
VCCA
Venice
Vinyl
Vladimir Nabokov
Wait But Why
Waking Life
Walking
Walking on the Beach
Water
Watermelon
Watership Down
When Harry Met Sally
Wicked Problems
Windsurfing
Wine
WNYC
Woodworking
Working in the garden
Writing
Writing Poetry
Yats (Cajun/Creole Food)
Yellowstone National Park
Yoga
Zenit E Manual SLR