I work for a Seattle-based management consulting firm, working on Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence, Data and Technology projects. I help companies optimize their processes and get the most out of their Information Technology. You can find out more about me on this page.
But here’s what I’m up to right now:
- Drinking Strong Coffee.
- Working Out with Resistance Bands.
- Spending Time in Ketosis.
- Self-Quarantining during Covid-19 Pandemic.
- Praying.
- Skimming Old Books.
- Investing in Cryptocurrencies and Value Opportunities.
- Gardening.
- Disconnecting from the Social Medias.
Currently Reading:
Recently Finished:
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
Postcards from Babylon: The Church in American Exile and Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News by Brian Zahnd
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis by Alan Jacobs
Reflection in the Waves: The Interdividual Observer in a Quantum Mechanical Universe by Pablo Bandera
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe by William Poundstone
The Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugin (banned from Amazon).
Battling to the End: Conversations w/ Benoit Chantre by René Girard
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous and Responsible Individuals by Tyler Cowen
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Planet by Christian Schwågeral
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
GAIA: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Win Bigly: Persuasion In A World Where Facts Don’t Matter by Scott Adams
Big Agenda! President Trump’s Plan to Save America by David Horowitz
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap by Graham Allison
The E. O. Wilson Trilogy by E. O. Wilson
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
The Book of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto by Phil Champagne and Satoshi Nakamoto
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun by Paul M. Barrett
The Populist Explosion: How The Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics by John B. Judis
Archeofuturism 2.0 by Guillaume Faye
Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
Convergence of Catastrophes and Archeofuturism by Guillaume Faye
The Birth of Tragedy and The Case Against Wagner (Basic Writings of Nietzsche) - Friedrich Nietzsche
Cuckservative: How Conservatives Betrayed America by Vox Day and John Red Eagle
Want to Read:
Everything by David Bentley Hart.
Everything by Jacques Ellul.
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard
Psychopolitics: Conversations w/ Trevor Cribben Merrill by Jean-Michael Oughourlian
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
Mimesis and Science: Empirical Research on Imitation and the Mimetic Theory of Culture and Religion by Scott R. Garrels
Sidelined:
The Girard Reader by René Girard
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes – and It’s Implications and The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead by Frank Tipler
The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace by Alexander Klimburg
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett
Violence and the Sacred by René Girard
The Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction by Erle C. Ellis
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress by Joel Mokyr
Principles by Ray Dalio
The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. Thorp
The Tao Jones Averages: A Guide to Whole-Brained Investing by Bennett W. Goodspeed
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson
The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism by Pascal Bruckner
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering by Samuel C. Florman
The Bourgeouis Virtues by Dierdre McCloskey
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and It’s Dangerous Legacy by David Hoffman
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People by Stephen Wolfram
Graham Greene’s Fictions: The Virtues of Extremity by Cates Baldridge
Here’s a list of the preeminent books that have shaped my life. And you can visit my resources page for a more complete list.
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