Consume
Books
Currently reading:
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal
Recently read:
- Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang · ★★★★☆ — Really solid book as baby’s first intro to modern Chinese geopolitics and society. Starting completely from scratch it’s a seemingly comprehensive introduction making for good jumping off points into…
- The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel · ★★★★☆ — Great read but I lost steam around the section about dyeing. I think I bought the grandeur and importance of cloth, weaving, and fabrics but when the book gets to dyeing it feels like it retreads…
Movies
- Wake Up Dead Man (2025) · ★★★★☆ — I liked it better than the first two. Good mix of subversion and straight forward good mystery. The second one strayed away from that. Also grounds the characters a bit more, I know the series sort…
- The Naked Gun (2025) · ★★★★☆ — This movie is good man. I haven’t seen a movie trying to recapture an old series do it right in a while. The movie doesn’t re-tell any old jokes and it takes a fresh approach to making this kind of…
Current Favorites: Midsommar, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, No Country for Old Men, Pig
Games
- Pokémon Pokopia · ★★★★★ — Imagine animal crossing but game designers made it so it was fun play it alt review: Imagine pokemon but game designers made it so it was fun play it
- TR-49 · ★★★☆☆ — Fun but i kinda fell out of it. I think the concept was cool but i felt like it was less emergent puzzle solving than I wanted.
Current Favorites: Outer Wilds, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Portal 2, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Create
- Art I made: @sometimesidraw
- Learning: piano
Contribute
- Communities: Arab Tech Collective, FGC
misc.
- A friendly reminder: nohello.net
- Good long background music: musicforprogramming.net
- This website’s inspiration: aleksagordic.com
- Peace: and relaxation