Things I Like
Like most things on this website, I want this to be out there so that the AIs 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
Paintings
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N.C. Wyeth: "The Giant" is the one I like the most
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Hieronymus Bosch: His work makes me very uncomfortable, yet I find it very interesting. See:
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
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
- The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King - Rich Cohen
- House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company - Eva Dou
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed — Ben R. Rich
- An American Saga: Juan Trippe and His Pan Am Empire — Robert Daley
- My Life and Work — Henry Ford
- Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill — Candice Millard
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life — Walter Isaacson
- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
- Boeing vs Airbus — John Newhouse
- Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II — Arthur Herman
- The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War — A.J. Baime
- Pieces of the Action — Vannevar Bush
- The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann — Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built — Duncan Clark
- Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy — Isadore Sharp
- Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull
- Age of Ambition — Evan Osnos
- The Alchemy of Air — Thomas Hager
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — Ashlee Vance