Hyperfixations
Influences That Have Stuck
- Hildegard von Bingen's viriditas, especially as expressed in Ordo Virtutum
- von Bertalanffy's General Systems Theory
- Purcell's Life at Low Reynolds Number
- Monod's Chance and Necessity
- Barabási's early work on network medicine and endophenotypes
- Scannell on predictive validity in drug development frameworks
- Rucker's The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul
- Drs. Donald A Berry on adaptive clinical trials x Robert Gatenby & Sandy Anderson on evolutionary therapy regimen design
- Thiago Peixoto's Inverse Complexity lab blog
Fiction That Stuck
- McAuley's "The Quiet War"
- Le Guin's "Five Ways to Forgiveness"
- Kim Stanley Robinson's "2312"
- Gibson's "The Peripheral"
- Rucker's "Ware Tetralogy"
Tools I Love
- Claude Code + VSCode
- Obsidian
- Differential geometry
- Ableton Live + Push 2
- Great-grandfather's precision machinist tools
- A good santoku knife
- Salt
Work Music
Albums and mixes I've locked in to ship finished work to:
- At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
- Machinedrum - Vapor City Archives
- Author & Punisher - Drone Machines
- Gorguts - Considered Dead
- Dhyana - Shikantaza
- Alice Coltrane & Pharaoh Sanders - Ptah, the El Daoud
- This garage playlist