Across art, culture, history, tech, media, finance, politics
- 4500 Hours in GielinorA childhood playing one of the world’s greatest video games has made IRL (in real life) strangely familiar. Video games are the greatest educational technology since the written word, and there are a handful of online multiplayer games from the 2000s and 2010s, including RuneScape, that cumulatively served as the training grounds and inspiration for today’s most ambitious young people. How we played these games is an underrated signal for how we’re playing the modern, digitally native, “massively multiplayer role playing game” of life.
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley RobinsonTitans of Investing is a semesterly program focused on building a life of significance (not just success). Each student produces a brief covering a top book. This is mine from Fall 2021 on The Ministry for the Future, a climate fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Long Twilio ($TWLO)At UT, I was part of an student investment team called TUIT, where among other things, we pitched public equity investing ideas. In April 2020, me, Emory, and Carson (two other members of my pitch team) pitched long $TWLO at ~$84 a share. Below is the report we wrote on why.
- Bullshit Jobs by David GraeberBullshit Jobs is a 2018 book by the late anthropologist David Graeber. It is a thoroughly unique take on the questionable economic and social condition of the Western world… Below is an article-style takeaway of my thoughts from reading and reflecting on the book.