Consumption
Bookshelf
- East of Eden
- Apple in China
- The Technological Republic
- Fiesta
- Fooled by Randomness
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- A Farewell to Arms
- Men, Machines, and Modern Times
- Meditations
- The Stranger
- Lives of the Artists
- Seveneves
- Project Hail Mary
- The Defining Decade
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- Bhagavad Gita
- Impro
- A Comedy of Nobodies
- A Taste for Happiness
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Poems for the Lost Because I’m Lost Too
- The Symposium
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
YouTube that formed me
MKBHD, Ali Abdaal, Numberphile, 3B1B, exurb1a, Stanford View from the Top lectures, Jacksepticeye, 442oons, NickRTFM, every “how I got into X college” video.
Music I love
- Film soundtracks
- They’re in a playlist titled Transcendental Music. Hans Zimmer, particularly the Gladiator soundtrack (also the only concert I’ve ever been to), Alan Silvestri, John Williams.
- Desi
- AR Rahman, Jagjit Singh, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
- Greek
- Mitropanos, Kraounakis, Karras, Pantelidis, Remos.
- (Afro)house
- Francis Mercier, Zulan, Peggy Gou, Keinemusik, Nitefreak, Fred again…, Swedish House Mafia.
Other things I resonate with
- Cavafy’s Ithaca and Rudyard Kipling’s If—
- C. S. Lewis’s The Inner Ring
- Memento mori
- Peacocks
Hamburger Kunsthalle
The Met
Cleveland Museum of Art
LACMA