Writing

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." - Jack Kerouac

26.2

I ran a marathon

3 mins read

Philosophy

One-paragraph summaries of important thinkers throughout history

53 mins read

Reading Journal: Sophie's World

A delightful tasting menu of Western philosophy

2 mins read

Reading Journal: Alice in Wonderland + Through a Looking Glass

The whimsical, fun, and nonsensical world of Alice in Wonderland

6 mins read

Favorite Movies

Tinkering with AirTable and IMDB APIs

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13.1

I ran a half marathon

2 mins read

Writing is Thinking

Je vais essayer

3 mins read

Intelligence

The world is full of smart people

3 mins read

Reading Journal: Atomic Habits

The process of building habits is actually the process of becoming yourself

9 mins read

Reading Journal: The Ride of a Lifetime

A memoir from one of the most successful CEO of our generation

29 mins read

Reading Journal: Zero to One

Peter Thiel's masterclass on startups and how to build the future

13 mins read

A comfortable pond of one

I am about as happy as I've made up my mind to be

4 mins read

A Few Thoughts on Learning

Don't run before you can walk. But fly as soon as you can run

2 mins read

Reading Journal: Shoe Dog

Memoir by Phil Knight, Creator of Nike

12 mins read

Your Loss of Free Will is The Product

The scourge of social media and its hidden costs

4 mins read

Reading Journal: Surely You Are Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Adventures of a fascinating character

13 mins read

Make it work, then make it better

Perfect is the enemy of good

3 mins read

All Models are wrong, some are useful

It is inappropriate to be concerned about mice when there are tigers abroad.

6 mins read

Robert Wang, P.E.

lambo where?

1 mins read

October Reset

Why did I stop blogging for a month and a half?

4 mins read

Little Miss Sunshine

A memorable tragicomedy. Best film I've seen all year.

6 mins read

Reading Journal: Freakonomics

A book that defies expectations. By Steven Levitt and Stephan Dubner

10 mins read

Reading Journal: Peak - Secrets From The New Science of Expertise

Excellence through deliberate practice

18 mins read

Self-Help

Reflecting on my ever growing collection of self-help books

1 mins read

Reading Journal: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 - Tina Seelig

A bestseller in the self-help category for students and young professionals

10 mins read

Reading Journal: Of Mice and Men

A thrilling short story from another era by John Steinbeck

7 mins read

The Fall of Icarus

The world moves on, apathetic to our struggles and triumphs

2 mins read

Goodbye YouTube; Hello World

Battling internet addiction. Digital Detox.

3 mins read

Reading Journal: The Ostrich Paradox

Why we underprepare for disasters

4 mins read

Reading Journal: Open

An autobiography of the former tennis champion Andre Agassi

9 mins read

Reading Journal: Animal Farm

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others

13 mins read

Reading Journal: The Paradox of Choice

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom - Soren Kierkegaard

15 mins read

Reading Journal: The Attention Merchants

In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of efforts to harvest our attention

19 mins read

Reading Journal: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance In An Age of Indulgence

We are like cacti in the rain forest

10 mins read

Reading Journal: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Widely considered to be the magnum opus of self-help books

32 mins read

Reading Journal: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

A short, fun, well-written self-help book for the modern audience

25 mins read

Reading Journal: Rich Dad Poor Dad

A popular financial self-help book

16 mins read

Reading Journal: Steve Jobs

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the worlds are the ones who do.

23 mins read

Reading Journal: Leonardo Da Vinci

A look at the life of the most prominent renaissance man in the 15th Century

9 mins read

Reading Journal: EERI Oral History Volume 1: Henry J. Degenkolb

Interview with a seminal figure in the earthquake engineering community

10 mins read

And Caesar Wept...

Standing before the statue of Alexander the Great

1 mins read

Voltaire on The Great Lisbon Earthquake

A Critique of Philosophical Optimism

1 mins read

Standing Desk Setup

I made my own standing desk for about $400

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Reading Journal: Sense and Sensitivity

Finally decided to read a Jane Austen novel

2 mins read

A Bad Joke

A memorable quote from Philip Gibbs' WWI non fiction Now It Can Be Told

3 mins read

Dulce et Decorum Est

One of my favorite war time poem of all time by Wilfred Owen

3 mins read

Just Passed my PE

A quick update to no one after being absent for a while

1 mins read

Every Meal I've Cooked So Far With HelloFresh

Here is a gallery of 52 different meals I made over the past 4 months

8 mins read

Why Build a Website from Scratch?

The smallest dog barks the loudest?

4 mins read

The First Post!

The start of something

6 mins read