Art & Culture
Books, Films & Aesthetic Sensibility
My aesthetic sensibility gravitates toward work that explores how individuals and civilizations navigate forces larger than themselves — systems, institutions, time, entropy, absurdity — while retaining agency, dignity, or at least a sense of humor about the whole endeavor.
Favorite Books & Authors
Haruki Murakami John Steinbeck — The Grapes of Wrath Malcolm Gladwell Ted Chiang Cixin Liu — The Three-Body Problem Douglas Adams — Hitchhiker’s Guide Isaac Asimov — Foundation Jorge Amado — Quincas Berro d’Água Dan Simmons — Hyperion Frederik Pohl — Gateway Yevgeny Zamyatin — We Philip K. Dick — Ubik H.P. Lovecraft — At the Mountains of Madness Edwin A. Abbott — Flatland Ayn Rand — Atlas Shrugged Orson Scott Card — Ender’s Game Stanisław Lem — Solaris Frank Herbert — Dune Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi — Flow Andy Weir — Project Hail Mary Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer — No Rules Rules Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay — How to Have Impossible Conversations
Favorite Films & Filmmakers
Edgar Wright Christopher Nolan Ridley Scott Quentin Tarantino Star Wars The Shawshank Redemption