books
Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Ken Liu)
When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)
The Opposite of Loneliness (Marina Keegan)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)
essays
"Meditations on Moloch" (Scott Alexander)
"This is Water" (David Foster Wallace)
"Dostoevsky as Lover" (Henrik Karlsson)
"You and Your Research" (Richard Hamming)
"How to Do Great Work" (Paul Graham)
"Notes on Puzzles" (Nabeel S. Qureshi)
"How to Think in Writing" (Henrik Karlsson)
places at/around stanford
CoHo jazz nights
late night studying at On Call Café
dinner at MJ Sushi
climbing the roof of Mem Aud
strolling University Ave & getting Salt & Straw
ordering Zareen's
locking in at Gates
places in nyc
McNally Jackson Books, SoHo
Charlie Bird, West Village
Mercer Labs, Fidi
Uluh, East Village
Antidote, Williamsburg
La Cabra, SoHo
journals, blogs, etc.
Escaping Flatland (Henrik Karlsson)
Works in Progress (Stripe Press)
Kernel Magazine (Reboot)
Gwern.net (Gwern Branwen)
Asimov Press
Asterisk Magazine
The Sephist (Linus Lee)