THE IDEAS BEHIND THE WORK
consumables
“The work I publish is downstream of what I consume.”
Books, papers, films, and conversations I’ve spent time with, alongside things I’m curious to explore. A record of curiosity. Inclusion doesn’t imply agreement with every idea in a work.
Books
A Brief History of Time
Read fall 2021
A Game of Thrones
Read summer 2016. Reread spring 2017
A Clash of Kings
Read spring 2017. Reread summer 2017
A Storm of Swords
Read spring 2017. Reread summer 2017
A Feast for Crows
Read spring 2017
A Dance with Dragons
Read spring 2017
Bag of Bones
Read 2010 or 2011
Becoming
Read spring 2026
Brain Energy
Read January 2026
Catcher in the Rye
Read fall 2015
Carrie
Read 2011
Cell
Read 2010
Cosmos
Read around 2015 or 2016
Dopamine Nation
Read August 2025
I Hate You — Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
Read February 2024. Partially reread fall 2025
Lying
Read June 2025
Man’s Search for Meaning
Mind Fixers
Began January 2026
Ordinary Men
Read spring 2019
Perversion of Justice
Read fall 2025
Project Hail Mary
Partially read 2023
Salem’s Lot
Read 2011
Slaughterhouse-Five
Read spring 2016
Sharp Objects
Read around 2013
The Art of the Interview
Reading summer 2025
The Choice
Read fall 2025
The Coddling of the American Mind
Partially read 2023 – 2024
The Gunslinger
Read fall 2017
The Drawing of the Three
Read fall 2017
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Read summer 2015
The Lovely Bones
Read around 2011 – 2013
The Rape of Nanking
Read spring 2019
The Shining
Read 2010 or 2011
UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry
Partially read 2025 – 2026
Articles & papers
Chinese Scientists Have Been Dying Mysterious Deaths Too
For Trump, the Iran War Is Stuck Between Combat and Genuine Peace
How to Spot a Psychopath
Miracle of the Sun
On Being Sane in Insane Places
On Bullshit
To read
The Fog of Diplomacy in Iran
The Nightmare that is a Reality
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The Truths That Failed Jason Arday
Unearthing the Biological Causes of Psychiatric Disorders
What Makes You You?
4chan UFO whistleblower thread
Films & shows
About Time
Atonement
Breaking Bad
Chernobyl
Civil War
Donnie Darko
Dark
Disclosure Day
Watched August 2026
Ex Machina
Game of Thrones
Gone Girl
Infinite Pool
Watched June 2026
Men
Nightcrawler
Nocturnal Animals
Project Hail Mary
Watched August 2026
Severance
Silo
Westworld
Prisoners
True Detective Season 1
Enemy
Schindler’s List
The Day After Tomorrow
Zodiac
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Inglorious Bastards
Django Unchained
The Hateful Eight
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Memento
Inception
Interstellar
Oppenheimer
Tenet
Dunkirk
The Odyssey
Watched August 2026
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
The Prestige
Insomnia
Annihilation
Warfare
Podcasts
Can We Pull Back From The Brink?
Case 350: Alice Sebold & Tony Broadwater
To read
The Courage to Be Disliked
River of Consciousness
How to Hide an Empire
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence — from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Original Sin
Genetic Lottery
Poisonous People