Movies
- Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie
- Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
- The Peanut Butter Falcon
- The Paper Chase
- One Battle After Another
Books
- The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate // Ted Chiang
- The Lincoln Highway // Amor Towles
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet // David Mitchell
New Music
- Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs // Alkaline Trio
- GNX // Kendrick Lamar
- Fuck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol but Ur Not!! <3 // Skrillex
- At Peace // Propagandhi
- A Weekend in the City B-sides // Bloc Party
- I Love my Computer // Ninajirachi
Old Music
- DECEMBERUNDERGROUND // AFI
- Exile in Oblivion // Strung Out
Ideas
- “Giving up” is a second type of courage
- It’s not auto parts that need to be fulfilled. It’s fucking art. Treat it as such. Give it a little reverence
- The ministry of presence.
- The softest thing in the world is an inheritance.
- Imagine what you would do if you couldn’t tell anyone what you did.
- Reputation, perhaps more than facts, drives outcomes in applications and justice. For this reason, one should really try to avoiding screwing up in ways that will taint a reputation.
- I would win and be doing interviews and then I’d come home to my hotel and be completely alone.
- Two forms of confidence
- Stop saying “right” to end sentences.
- In 1950, the average GPA at Harvard was estimated at 2.6 out of 4. By 2003, it had risen to 3.4. Today, it stands at 3.8.