Exploration Doing Thinking Loafing
Seeker of novelty in many forms: gastronomic sensations, provocative ideas, places near and far, people, ways of living, spirituality, uncontemporary books, contemporary art, etc.
Some media I love:
- Custom-Built Intrigue by Ed Ruscha
- Leger's mosaic at La Colombe D'Or
- Fifty Days at Iliam by Cy Twombly
- Voss by Alexander McQueen
- Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
- Of Refinement in the Arts by David Hume
- Pleasures by Aldous Huxley
- Carbonara Ice Cream by Massimo Bottura
- England, an Elegy by Roger Scruton
- Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
- The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
Some things I've written:
- On dromomania
- Being Ugly is a Choice
- The Lost Pursuit of Ataraxia
- Post-internetism
- Self-expansion, not self-limitation
- Stop Treating Women Like Men
- For a Lack of Imagination
- Don't Eat the Rich
- Stanford is America, Only Sooner
- The Currency of Payments
- Stanford Produces Underwater Basket Weavers
- Femininity, not Feminism