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Favorite

Consumer Goods

• ASUS ROG Strix 27” 4K Monitor (Gaming and web surfing as they were meant to be.)
• Custom Molded Earplugs (Attend music festivals your whole life without hearing loss.)
• De’Longhi Portable Air Conditioner (Makes working in the summer bearable.)
• iBUYPOWER Pre-Built Gaming PC (Basically mandatory as software becomes more bloated.)
• Motorola G Power (Cheap smartphone with two days of battery life.)
• Nike Men’s Air Max 2090 Shoes (A 1.5” height boost to 5’11” makes life much nicer.)
• Rfiver Mobile TV Cart (Take your TV anywhere and adjust it to the optimal viewing height.)
• SABRE Pepper Gel (Self-defense you can actually use without being charged with murder.)
• Sony Bravia 65” 4K Mini-LED TV (Perfect blend of cinematic and portable.)
• Vive Wrist Brace (Theoretically type for ten hours a day. Don’t actually though.)
• Whitin Men’s Zero Drop Road Running Shoes (Walk and run for miles without any issues.)
• ZNHIS Magnetic Bookmarks (Avoids the mess of disposable paper bookmarks.)

Cooking Essentials

(Eating well has never been more expensive, but it’s still cheaper than fast food.)

• Amazon Basics 8” Chef’s Knife (Kitchen workhorse at an unbeatable price.)
• Garofalo Imported Italian Spaghetti (American grains make me sick. European grains don’t.)
• Kitchen Mama Auto Electric Can Opener (Opens up a whole world of canned goods.)
• Nature’s Bounty Fish Oil Softgels (Essential omega-3 fats for healthy gums and joints.)
• Raw Milk (Pasteurization ruins milk. Get yours straight from the cow.)
• Sensarte 12” Nonstick Skillet (Tacos, fried chicken, pasta sauce, pork burgers, and more!)
• Sulu Organic Avocado Oil (Healthy vegetable oil. Eat fried foods without feeling sick.)

Sports Equipment

(Fitness is a life-long commitment. Easier at home than at an underequipped, crowded gym.)

• Amazon Basics Unisex Swim Goggles (Mirrored) (Allows swimming with contact lenses.)
• BlenderBottle Classic (Protein shakes without having to clean a sharp metal blender.)
• Bowflex 90lb Adjustable Dumbbells (For lateral raises, bicep curls, and farmer’s carries.)
• CAP 45lb Bumper Plate (Cheap, colorful weights that ship fast.)
• Casio Men’s Digital Sports Watch (Swim without losing track of time.)
• Double Wood Liquid Collagen (Pair with acupuncture and Jefferson curls to heal most aches.)
• Element 26 Self-Locking Weight Lifting Belt (A healthy back is priceless. Valsalva!)
• EVMT Liquid Chalk (Secures grip and prevents ugly callus formation when lifting weights.)
• Froning SR-1F Speed Rope (Footwork drills and rainy day cardio. Who needs a treadmill?)
• MIFAWA Men’s Zero Drop Shoes (Ideal for powerlifting. Heeled shoes subtly mess with form.)
• Mitchum Men’s Deodorant (Anti-perspirant to keep workouts focused and dry.)
• Optimum Nutrition Whey Protein Powder (Six scoops on workout days. Two on rest days.)
• Rogue Flat Utility Bench (Adjustable benches are unnecessary. Just overhead press.)
• Rogue 45lb Stainless Steel Ohio Barbell (For squats, overhead/bench presses, and deadlifts.)
• Rogue SML-2C Squat Stand (Numbered) (Perfect for a garage gym. Get the safety arms too!)
• Rogue 22lb Training Barbell (Useful for learning and teaching proper form on new lifts.)
• Speedo Men’s Jammer Endurance+ Swimsuit (Enjoy the pool while being modest.)
• Vibrelli Bicycle Floor Pump (Pumps up balls in minutes. I wish biking was less dangerous.)
• Wilson Size 7 Basketball (By far the most accessible team sport. Make friends quickly.)

(There are diminishing returns to lifting weights heavier than ~225lbs. Once there, focus on sports.)

Lifestyle Books

• Deskbound by Kelly Starrett (Learn proper sitting, standing, and walking. Flex your back!)
• Double Your Dating by David DeAngelo (She said yes to the date! Now what?)
• How to Cook Everything: The Basics by Mark Bittman (Most of my diet is recipes from this.)
• How to Make Love to a Woman by Michael Morgenstern (Being present goes a long way.)
• Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe (Squat, press, bench, deadlift! Watch Thrall’s tutorials.)

(If you can only read one, pick Deskbound. Poor posture, which is the norm, ruins most people.)

Hobbyist Books

• The Age of Movies: Selected Writings by Pauline Kael (Will transform how you watch films.)
• Game Programming Patterns by Bob Nystrom (Building maintainable real-world software.)
• The Great Movies by Roger Ebert (Many can be watched with a free Kanopy account.)
• Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman (Physics! Read the full lectures and do the problems.)

Philosophy Books

• Certain to Win by Chet Richards (How to outmaneuver and defeat much larger enemies.)
• The Collected Works by Arthur Schopenhauer (Being happy in a meaningless world.)
• The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti (Nobody actually exists.)
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (Either exercise power or have it exercised on you.)
• Straw Dogs by John Gray (Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature.)
• The Trouble with Being Born by Emil Cioran (Resignation is only the beginning.)

Economics Books

(I loosely define economics as “the study of scarcity”. It’s a very broad field.)

• Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (“Work” is more about societal control than actual work.)
• The Death of the West by Pat Buchanan (Demographics are destiny.)
• Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt (We’re all carefully groomed to serve malicious elites.)
• The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao (Everywhere you go, the strong exploit the weak.)
• How Civilizations Die by David Goldman (Birth rate collapse is leading us to war.)
• Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich (Giving the old chemo for slow-killing cancer is idiotic.)
• River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins (Suffering and scarcity are built into reality.)
• Screen Schooled by Joe Clement (Post-smartphones/AI, formal education is meaningless.)
• Untrue by Wednesday Martin (Female sexuality is a terrifying, unstoppable force.)

History Books

(I’m interested in the things they won’t teach you at school. There’s at least two sides to any story.)

• The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell (American cultural decay from 1964 to 2015.)
• A History of Hinduism by Gagan Deep Bakshi (Reblooming after a millennium suppressed.)
• Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis (50 million forgotten murders.)
• Montaillou by Emmanuel Ladurie (Based on actual interviews with medieval peasants.)
• A Republic, Not an Empire by Pat Buchanan (U.S. history from a pre-WW1 point of view.)
• The Shadow of the Great Game by Narendra Sarila (Pakistan’s Cold War origins.)
• The Unnecessary War by Pat Buchanan (Unredacted analysis of the world wars.)
• Varna, Jati, Caste by Rajiv Malhotra (The “caste system” is mostly a British invention.)

Novels

• The Long Walk by Stephen King (Metaphor for any competition where most participants lose.)
• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (A highly paid office drone is still an office drone.)
• Pet Sematary by Stephen King (Death makes a mockery of everything.)
• The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (Hypnotic in its intensity.)
• Submission by Michel Houellebecq (Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Surreal reflections on Western imperialism.)
• The Witches by Roald Dahl (A boy and his grandmother against the bankers.)

Short Stories

• “American Gold Mine” by Paolo Bacigalupi (Any professional can relate.)
• “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin (You can’t outsmart reality.)
• “Fleep” by Jason Shiga (If you lose your memories, are you still the same person?)
• “Frost and Fire” by Ray Bradbury (Man that is born of a woman is of few days.)
• “A Full Life” by Paolo Bacigalupi (Society peaked decades ago. It’s all downhill from here.)
• “Golden” by Nick Bostrom (Natural selection makes the world a horror.)
• “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka (The best gifts find the fewest admirers.)
• “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison (Allegory for Judeo-Christian God.)
• “To Build a Fire” by Jack London (One is always only a few mistakes from death.)
• “Yellow Card Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi (In the end, you’re alone.)

Comic Books

• Amar Chitra Katha by Anant Pai (Immortal wisdom from better times. Why I’m a Hindu.)
• Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (This charismatic idiot ruined India, China, and Southeast Asia.)
• The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (You have free will. It’s never too late to be a hero.)
• Here by Richard McGuire (100 years from now, nobody will care that you existed.)
• Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy (Be born, mate, die. There’s nothing else to do.)
• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (Refusing to grow can be fatal. Ironically, Gaiman is a rapist.)
• Swamp Thing by Alan Moore (It’s better to be a plant than an animal.)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (Our leaders are even more misguided than we are.)

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Movies

(Hollywood is run by Weinstein types, so be careful. You are what you consume.)

• Angel’s Egg by Mamoru Oshii (Borrowed time, borrowed eyes, borrowed world.)
• Aniara by Pella Kågerman (Viruses on a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.)
• The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray (Precious blueprints of pre-modern Hindu life to return to.)
• Chhaava by Laxman Utekar (Heralds a Hindu revival a thousand years in the making.)
• Devi by Satyajit Ray (When men make war, it’s always women and children who suffer.)
• Don Juan DeMarco by Jeremy Leven (Living without illusions is a fast track to depression.)
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner by Stanley Kramer (Still radical 60 years later, sadly.)
• The Maltese Falcon by John Huston (Invented “film noir”. James Bond but cooler.)
• The Shining by Stanley Kubrick (Eerily beautiful and built on genocide. Just like America.)
• The Sound of Music by Robert Wise (Catnip for women. Every girl loves this movie.)
• The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy (Suicide really just speeds up the inevitable.)
• Synecdoche, New York by Charlie Kaufman (Trying and failing to make sense of life.)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Anthony Minghella (Ever wonder how politicians see you?)
• Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock (Perfectly embodies disorientation. San Francisco at its prettiest.)
• Watership Down by Martin Rosen (Moving depiction of the universal “will to live”.)

(Pro tip: Steam Link can stream pirated movies from your browser to your TV. Use a VPN!)

Video Games

(Gaming peaked ~2013. 90% of new games are bad remixes of older titles. Just play old games.)

• Arctic Eggs (Masterclass in setting and mood. Captures the nihilism of today’s youth culture.)
• Braid (Time, obsession, and the importance of making sure your goals are the right ones.)
• The Case of the Golden Idol (Mad libs deduction at its finest. Treats Hinduism with respect.)
• Grand Theft Auto V (Easily the best open-world game ever made. Absurdly good story.)
• Half-Life (You are alone and everyone you meet wants to harm or control you. Very relatable.)
• Hotline Miami (With proper visibility, one man can defeat a hundred. Killer soundtrack.)
• Little Inferno (Our lives are brief candles and every day we burn a little more. No going back.)
• Pikmin (With proper strategy and courage, no obstacle is insurmountable.)
• Poker Night at the Inventory (All the fun of gambling without the addiction and shame!)
• Sleeping Dogs (Grand Theft Auto meets Hong Kong cinema. The triad life is the life for me.)
• Spelunky 2 (Procedurally generated 2D platformer – endless variety and perfect feel.)
• Super Mario Galaxy (Divinely inspired 3D platforming. It’s hard to believe humans made this.)

(Check out WoWRoms, Mednafen, PCSX2, Dolphin, and Wand. Endless fun!)

Background

Education

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Political Views

I’m a U.S.-born Hindu. I’ve lived in Silicon Valley most of my life and got rich during COVID.^[1]

Now that I’m free, I may leave. But to where? Europe? An SEC college town? A big house in India? Like Warren Buffett, I’m presently invested in T-Bills in anticipation of an economic crash.^[2][3]

Most important things in life (your genetics, birthplace, economic conditions in your twenties, etc.) are out of your control. If you’re unhappy with how your life turned out, try to be easier on yourself.

U.S. politics is now decided entirely by bipartisan special interest groups, so I don’t vote any more. I encourage you to stop voting as well. Participating in the farce just legitimizes it.

We seem to be leaving an era of globalization and connectivity for one of war and atomization. The U.S. Empire (1945-2022)^[4] is in its death throes, and its successor(s) may be worse.

[1] By "rich" I mean I can afford a nice apartment and some hobbies in a high cost-of-living area while avoiding having to work during bad job markets (like the present one). When jobs are scarce, employees are worked to the bone and it's dog-eat-dog. Not my scene. When good jobs become easy to find again, you'll likely see me schmoozing my way into my own business or an executive position.

[2] The S&P 500 is wildly overvalued right now (AI is a scam that costs far more money to operate than it earns), so I'm happy to wait. It's crucial to never "FOMO" into anything, especially when you live in a nation run by Epstein List pedophiles who want to enslave you. Most long-time investors I know lost money or are breaking even after inflation. It's obvious the "markets" are a rigged carnival game.

[3] I'm also investing in my health (strength training, running, swimming, boxing, calisthenics, yoga, raw milk, fish oil). You should too. Prevention is the best medicine. Most surgeries and prescribed drugs just kill you slowly. Avoid doctors, eat healthy, don't drink, live well. I'd like to take up golf and beach volleyball for their scenic and social aspects. Scuba diving, gardening, and filmmaking also sound fun. I have no interest in children of my own^[3.5], but do feel some obligation to other Hindus. Cultivating the diaspora is a worthwhile goal.

[3.5] Our world is presently set up as a forced labor camp that gets worse and worse (central banks which issue interest-bearing loans as fiat currency), ensuring debt slavery, ecological collapse, etc. Declining birth rates globally prove this society is unsustainable, and it's probable this all ends in a nuclear world war. I encourage you to have kids, but I'd personally rather be a spectator and guide than an active participant in this hell. Even today, most people I know live miserable lives of humiliation and fear. Imagine the future.

[4] 1945 as the start date is pretty obvious (World War 2). I picked 2022 as the end date for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the end of zero interest-rate policy (which kept America chugging post-2008), and the rise of remote work (which makes hubs like Silicon Valley and Hollywood obsolete by enabling a truly global workforce). 2018 (U.S.-China trade war) and 2023 (Israel-Gaza war) also mattered. Other possible end dates are 2020 (COVID-19 lockdowns/PPP loans) and 2021 (a majority of U.S. children are now non-white).