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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