Interests

Since the start of the pandemic, going to the climbing gym has not been possible. Instead, I have started running and biking (though probably not as often as I should).

I still read a few books a year, mostly in the fantasy and non-fiction genres: This is my current list for 2020:

• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
• The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
• Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky (currently reading)
• The Creation of the Media: The Political Origins of Modern Communications by Paul Starr
• A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk, Ekin Oklap
• Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
• Arm of the Sphinx by Josiah Bancroft
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
• Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
• Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker
• Germany, Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor (currently reading)
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown (currently reading)

Books I read in 2019:

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Creation of the Media by Paul Starr (in limbo)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
• How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zablatt
• Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
• Saint’s Blood by Sebastien de Castell
• Tyrant’s Throne by Sebastien de Castell
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin (Translator)
• Veil of the Deserters by Jeff Salyards
• Chains of the Heretic by Jeff Salyards
• The Spy who came in from the Cold by John Le Carre
• The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl (unfinished)

Some of the books I read in 2018 include:

• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• All The President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
• All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut