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