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Etc.
The stuff that doesn't fit neatly anywhere else — things I like, things I've been reading, things I think about.
Currently into
Reading
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin. A physics genius on an anarchist moon. Slower than I expected but keeps pulling me back.
Listening
Arooj Aftab
Vulture Prince on repeat. Something about how she treats silence like an instrument.
Thinking about
What makes a tool feel good to use
Not just usability. Something more like — whether the tool respects your intelligence.
Learning
Japanese, slowly
Duolingo streak: 47 days. Real ability: able to order food and apologise for being lost.
Favourite books
- The Master and Margarita — BulgakovFiction
- Gödel, Escher, Bach — HofstadterNon-fiction
- Convenience Store Woman — MurataFiction
- The Design of Everyday Things — NormanNon-fiction
- Pachinko — LeeFiction
Places I've been
- SeoulHome
- TokyoBest convenience stores
- ParisWorse than expected, also better
- VancouverMountains from everywhere