Writing

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

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

1 mins read

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