Books

The books that influenced me the most.

• How Innovation Works – Matt Ridley
• Loonshots – Safi Bahcall
• The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle
• The Idea Factory – Jon Gertner
• The Innovators – Walter Isaacson
• Einstein: His Life and Universe – Walter Isaacson
• Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
• Becoming Steve Jobs – Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli
• Titan – Ron Chernow
• The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
• Mastery – Robert Greene
• The Laws of Human Nature – Robert Greene
• The 33 Strategies of War – Robert Greene
• Behave – Robert Sapolsky
• The Incerto Series – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Psycho-Cybernetics – Maxwell Maltz
• Invention: A Life – James Dyson

Movies

• Old Boy
• Amadeus
• La Haine
• There Will Be Blood
• The Fountainhead
• Dallas Buyers Club
• The Notebook
• Minari
• Requiem for a Dream
• Good Days
• A Moment to Remember
• Braveheart
• Parasite
• Past Lives
• Burning
• Always
• Sinners
• The Boy and the Heron
• Monster
• Princess Mononoke
• Whiplash
• A Beautiful Mind
• La La Land
• Chungking Express
• Mother
• Fallen Angels
• In the Mood for Love
• Leila's Brothers
• Phantom Thread
• A Short Film About Love
• Fallen Leaves
• The Master
• The Darjeeling Limited
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Memories of Murder
• Rushmore
• Beef (series)
• Blue Velvet
• The Handmaiden
• Hot Milk
• No Other Choice
• A Hero
• Mulholland Drive
• The Smashing Machine
• Silence
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Days of Being Wild
• Eyes Wide Shut
• The Apartment
• End of Watch
• American Sniper
• Reprise
• Prisoners

Documentaries

• Steve Jobs – Man in the Machine
• The Current War
• Senna
• Ronaldo
• General Magic
• The Man Who Knew Infinity
• The Imitation Game
• The Last Dance
• Kobe Bryant's Muse
• Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
• The Theory of Everything
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• In Whose Name?
• Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
• Tiger (Part 1 & Part 2)
• Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
• 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki
• Becoming Warren Buffett
• Walt Disney

Please Watch This

• Jiro Ono and René Redzepi Have a Cup of Tea
• Ralph Lauren Rare Interview with Charlie Rose 1/22/1993
• Kanye West Lecture at The Oxford Guild

Interests

psychology, analyzing people, art, music (classical and everything else), cinema of all kinds, arthouse especially, reading, biographies, playing table tennis, and building things and putting them into existence.