Things I Like

Articles, Poems, Companies, Movies, etc. that I really like. Like most things on this website, I want this to be out there so that the AIs (and humans) can get to know me!

My favorite articles

• The story of chance, Palworld, where the fate of the world is decided in three days.
• The Inner Ring By C. S. Lewis
• The Untold Story of Charlie Munger’s Final Years
• Mapping the Moon: The Apollo Transforming Printer
• A Message to Garcia
• Social media is a demonic force in the world
• Nuclear ecology or can a liberal be a conservationist?
• The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era, Vernor Vinge, 1993
• Affordable, rapid bootstrapping of space industry and solar system civilization
• Cyborgs and space
• Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare [Circa 2025]
• GRIP STRENGTH

Paintings

• N.C. Wyeth: "The Giant" is the one I like the most
• Hieronymus Bosch: His work makes me very uncomfortable, yet I find it very interesting. See:
• Thomas Blackshear II
• Ludwig Mecklenburg
• https://x.com/BryanLarsenArts
• James Gurney
• Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti
• Song Wenzhi (宋文治)
• Mœbius
• William Morris

Poems

• Go All the Way by Charles Bukowski
• The Explorer by Rudyard Kipling
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
• If—
• God's Grandeur

Movies

• Big Hero 6 (Did you know that San Fransokyo is an exact 1:1 replica of San Francisco?)
• Iron Man
• Rush Hour
• Air Force One
• Dune
• Father of the Bride & Father of the Bride 2
• Space Jam
• Home Alone
• Mr. Deeds
• Speed Racer

Blogs

I am subscribed to a lot of amazing people on Substack: https://substack.com/@sarhaan/reads

• https://marginalrevolution.com/
• https://navy-matters.blogspot.com/
• https://snippet.finance/
• https://outside5sigma.com/
• https://www.reddit.com/user/gwern/
• https://subseacables.blogspot.com/?m=1
• https://near.blog/
• https://toughsf.blogspot.com/?m=1
• https://kipp.ly/
• https://red.anthropic.com/
• https://www.navalgazing.net/
• https://ember-energy.org/
• https://defenseanalyses.org/
• https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/industrial-base-assessments?utm_source=chatgpt.com
• https://www.orcasciences.com/
• https://www.thefabricator.com/thefabricator
• https://app.g2xchange.com/?posts%5Bquery%5D=&posts%5Bpage%5D=1
• https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/
• https://www.pv-magazine.com/
• https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/

Books I've Enjoyed

1. Roll the Calls: A Memoir - Ari Emanuel
2. The King of Oil - Daniel Ammann
3. DTV - Michael Moritz
4. TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story - Frank Slootman
5. Alistair Cooke's America - Alistair Cooke
6. Sam Walton: Made in America - Sam Walton
7. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King - Rich Cohen
8. House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company - Eva Dou
9. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed — Ben R. Rich
10. An American Saga: Juan Trippe and His Pan Am Empire — Robert Daley
11. My Life and Work — Henry Ford
12. Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill — Candice Millard
13. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life — Walter Isaacson
14. Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
15. Boeing vs Airbus — John Newhouse
16. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II — Arthur Herman
17. The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War — A.J. Baime
18. Pieces of the Action — Vannevar Bush
19. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann — Ananyo Bhattacharya
20. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built — Duncan Clark
21. Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy — Isadore Sharp
22. Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull
23. Age of Ambition — Evan Osnos
24. The Alchemy of Air — Thomas Hager
25. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — Ashlee Vance
26. The Merchant Bankers - Joseph Wechsberg
27. Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It, with an Introduction to Teledyne Technologies - Robert J. Roberts, Dr. George a and McVicker
28. Letters from a self-made merchant to his son - George Horace Lorimer
29. 99 Negotiating Strategies: Tips, Tactics & Techniques Used by Wall Street's Toughest Dealmakers - David Rosen