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Favorite

Lifestyle Books

• Deskbound by Kelly Starrett (Learn proper sitting, standing, and walking. Extend 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 (Happy girlfriend, happy life.)
• Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe (Unlock a lifetime of sports and love. Don’t dirty bulk.)

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

Hobbyist Books

• Game Programming Patterns by Bob Nystrom (Tech jobs are dead. But software is still fun.)
• 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.)

San Francisco Bay Area Businesses

• Chiang Rai Thai Massage (Petite women walking on top of you really works out all the knots.)
• Healing Needles Acupuncture (Cured my chronic tendinopathy and gave me my life back.)
• Iron Warehouse (Olympic weightlifting coaching. Strength is worthless without power.)
• Oakland Zoo (Animals are our cousins. It’s fun to observe our happier, better-adjusted family.)
• Papillon (Affordable high-end French cuisine – frog legs, escargot, soufflés, roasted lamb.)
• Real Food Bay Area (Raw milk is an addictive superfood. $30 for 4,000 high-quality calories.)
• Silicon Valley Hearing Center (Custom earplugs prevent tinnitus – a fate worse than death.)

Consumer Goods

• ASUS ROG Strix 27” 4K Monitor (Gaming and web surfing as they were meant to be.)
• De’Longhi Portable Air Conditioner (Makes working in the summer bearable.)
• DenTek Floss Picks (Floss your gums deep into the gumline. Back to front, hit every tooth!)
• iBUYPOWER Pre-Built Gaming PC (Basically mandatory as software becomes more bloated.)
• Motorola G Power (Cheap smartphone with two days of battery life.)
• Nature’s Bounty Fish Oil Softgels (Essential omega-3 fats for healthy gums and joints.)
• Nike Men’s Air Max 2090 Shoes (A 1.6” 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.)
• ZNHIS Magnetic Bookmarks (Avoids the mess of disposable paper bookmarks.)

Sports Equipment

(Have perfect form and breath. The goal is strength and longevity, not injuries or arbitrary numbers.)

• Amazon Basics Unisex Swim Goggles (Mirrored) (Allows swimming with contact lenses.)
• BlenderBottle Classic (Protein shakes without having to clean a sharp metal blender.)
• Casio Men’s Digital Sports Watch (Swim without losing track of time.)
• Do-Win Weightlifting Shoes (Facilitate Olympic lifts by enabling jumping with a barbell.)
• Element 26 Self-Locking Weight Lifting Belt (Allows an efficient Valsalva to safely lift heavy.)
• 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.)
• Naked Unflavored Whey Protein Powder (Twelve scoops on workout days. Four on rest days.)
• Rep 5lb Technique Plates (Load these on a training barbell for a minimal 32lb deadlift/clean.)
• Ringside Omega Boxing Gloves (Deep enough pockets that you can actually hold a fist.)
• 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 Mini Deadlift Bar Jack (Get large weights on and off a barbell on the floor easily.)
• Rogue 160lb Color Echo Bumper Plates (Add whimsical fun to otherwise serious training.)
• Rogue SML-2C Squat Stand (Numbered) (Perfect for a garage gym. Get the safety arms too!)
• Rogue 37.5lb Change Plates (Adding 5 pounds each week is 200+ pounds of gains in a year.)
• Rogue 25lb Strongman Sandbag (Models a human body to train wrestling and lovemaking.)
• Rogue 22lb Training Barbell (Useful for learning and teaching proper form on new lifts.)
• Rogue 0.5lb Fractional Plates (Microloading a single pound can bust through plateaus.)
• Speedo Men’s Jammer Endurance+ Swimsuit (Enjoy the pool while being modest.)
• Steelbody Plate and Bar Organizer (Keeps equipment tidy and out of the way.)
• Vibrelli Bicycle Floor Pump (Pumps up balls in minutes. I wish biking was less dangerous.)
• Vigoro Pea Gravel (Throw this in a 5-gallon bucket for rice bucket grip training.)
• Whitin Men’s Zero Drop Road Running Shoes (Hike and run for miles without any issues.)
• Wilson Size 7 Basketball (By far the most accessible team sport. Make friends quickly.)

Cooking Essentials

(You are what you eat. Consuming overpriced processed slop makes you a farm animal.)

• Amazon Basics 8” Chef’s Knife (Kitchen workhorse at an unbeatable price.)
• Cooks Standard 12-Quart Stock Pot (Large and portable with heat-resistant handles.)
• 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.)
• Sensarte 12” Nonstick Skillet (Tacos, fried chicken, pasta sauce, eggs, pork, and more!)
• Sulu Organic Avocado Oil (Healthy vegetable oil. Eat fried foods without feeling sick.)

Philosophy Books

• The Collected Works by Arthur Schopenhauer (Being happy in a meaningless world.)
• The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti (Nobody actually exists.)
• Straw Dogs by John Gray (Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature.)
• The Trouble with Being Born by Emil Cioran (Resignation is only the beginning.)
• The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted Kaptchuk (Chinese philosophy, as applied to medicine.)

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.)
• Certain to Win by Chet Richards (How to outmaneuver and defeat much larger enemies.)
• 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 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (Either exercise power or have it exercised on you.)
• 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 evil.)
• River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins (Suffering and scarcity are built into reality.)
• Screen Schooled by Joe Clement (Most waking hours are spent online. Kids are doomed.)
• The Unabomber Manifesto by Ted Kaczynski (All hard work gets you is humiliation.)
• 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 lie.)

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

• “Fleep” by Jason Shiga (If you lose your memories, are you still the same person?)
• “Frost and Fire” by Ray Bradbury (One week to live or 80 years. Is there a real difference?)
• “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 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 (Weapons are nothing without the will to use them.)
• Here by Richard McGuire (Life is a present moment always vanishing, and then it is over.)
• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (Refusing to grow can be fatal. Ironically, Gaiman is a rapist.)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (Our leaders are even more misguided than we are.)

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Movies

(Classic films are often re-released in U.S. theaters. See here for a list of upcoming airings.)

• Angel’s Egg by Mamoru Oshii (Borrowed time, borrowed eyes, borrowed world.)
• Chhaava by Laxman Utekar (Heralds a Hindu revival a thousand years in the making.)
• Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón (If your people have no future, you’re a slave for nothing.)
• Citizen Kane by Orson Welles (Money can’t buy wisdom, a personality, or health.)
• Don Juan DeMarco by Jeremy Leven (Living without illusions is a fast track to depression.)
• Enter the Dragon by Bruce Lee (Imagine the world if the Chinese had avoided Communism.)
• Gone with the Wind by David Selznick (Easily the best film ever made about women.)
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner by Stanley Kramer (Still radical 60 years later, sadly.)
• Justice League: Gods and Monsters by Bruce Timm (“Adult” superheroes who act like adults.)
• Lord of War by Andrew Niccol (Post-Cold War globalized gun-running for fun and profit.)
• The Maltese Falcon by John Huston (Invented “film noir”. Tough talk, trenchcoats, cold world.)
• My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki (Captures childhood joy and the essence of Shinto.)
• Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray (Precious blueprints of pre-modern Hindu life to return to.)
• Run Hide Fight: Infidels by Ben Shapiro (The tide has turned! Be proudly “Islamophobic”!)
• The Shining by Stanley Kubrick (Eerily beautiful and built on genocide. Just like America.)
• 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?)
• Threads by Mick Jackson (There’s nothing fun about the “end of the world”.)
• Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock (Perfectly embodies disorientation. San Francisco at its prettiest.)
• Vivarium by Lorcan Finnegan (Raising kids who are “educated” by others is the ultimate cuck.)
• Watership Down by Martin Rosen (Moving depiction of the universal “will to live”.)
• The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky (The white man’s pretensions are really a slow suicide.)

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

Video Games

(Great AAA games stopped being made after ~2011. Happily, software doesn’t age.)

• Batman: Arkham City (Vampire ninja bodybuilder cosplayer ambushes clowns in Gaza.)
• Grand Theft Auto IV (Dirty Slavic immigrant turns New York into the warzone he escaped.)
• 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.)
• Katamari Damacy (Satire of Abrahamic religions. Ruin everyone’s lives for an insane god.)
• Pikmin (Through strategy, group cohesion, and courage, no obstacle is insurmountable.)
• Poker Night 2 (All the fun of stock trading without the addiction and bankruptcy!)
• Super Mario Galaxy (Divinely inspired 3D platforming. It’s hard to believe humans made this.)
• The Witness (Trains the player to take an intellectual view of life, like a spectator at a play.)

Background

Education

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Physical Stats

Every man should be able to deadlift 135lbs, do 5 good push-ups, do a chin-up, and walk a mile.

(All weights in pounds. “3x5” means “3 sets of 5 repetitions”.)

• Height: 5’9.25” barefoot (5’10.85” in shoes), Weight: 180, Age: 30
• Low-Bar Squat: 185 (3x5), Deadlift: 200 (1x5), Power Clean: 42 (5x3)
• Bench Press: 115 (3x5), Overhead Press: 83.5 (3x5)
• Push-Ups: 1x11, Chin-Ups: 1x3, Pull-Ups: 1x1

(Last updated October 28 2026.)

Some lifting tips –

• Nobody actually cares how much weight you can lift. The point is to be strong enough for sports/lovemaking/good posture. 5 bodyweight squats and 5 pull-ups should be enough.
• There are diminishing returns to lifting more than 225lbs (100kg). Most influencers lifting >300lbs end up with chronic pain and weaklings long-term. It’s better to have a 225lb deadlift and 95lb power clean than a 405lb deadlift and never power clean. Be a jack of all trades.
• Dumbbells are not a good barbell replacement. The goal of the squat/deadlift/press/clean is to move weights in a straight line up and down over the body’s center of gravity (mid-foot). You can’t do this optimally with dumbbells. There’s also no squat stand equivalent for dumbbells, so your squat is held back by your upper-body strength. Cleans and deadlifts are impossible.
• The squat is a very technical exercise. Avoid a narrow stance, knee slide, inadequate bracing, and arched back. Adding 5lbs a week is fine. Your form likely won’t be perfect for 6+ months, and by then you’ll be mostly through the “newbie gains” phase. Take things slow. Wear a belt.
• Resist the urge to go overboard with your deadlift. Keep it within 20-30lbs of your squat. Cheating the lift (knees in front of elbows, rounded back) will injure you badly.
• Make sure your bench press technique is perfect (back arch, retracted shoulders, leg drive) before adding weight. When unracking the bar, lift your butt off the bench for leverage.
• The overhead press works the upper chest in addition to the shoulders. Keep your chest out and lats down. Imagine you’re crushing oranges with your armpits. Shrug at the top.
• The power clean is difficult to nail on your own. (Olympic lifts aren’t as popular, so most online instruction is terrible.) Getting coached at a powerlifting gym is a good idea.
• Protein is important, but so are carbs. Eat lots of pasta pre-workout for best results. Maintain a slight caloric surplus (a quart of milk a day) when bulking and lose the fat for more (if slower) gains when cutting. A year or so of this is enough for lifelong strength.
• Cardio is highly overrated. 1-2 mile walks multiple times a week are more than enough to manage weight. Running during the off-season is vital for sports performance though.
• Once you’re strong enough, keep working out once a week and consuming half the protein you did while training. There’s more to life than lifting. Play sports! Run a mile!

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]

• Support: Hindutva for India, Open Borders for Western Nations
• Oppose: White Supremacy, Islamism (Muslim Supremacy)

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

Most important things in life (your parents, 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.^[4]

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.^[5]

We seem to be leaving an era of globalization and connectivity for one of war and atomization. The U.S. Empire (1945 - 2022)^[6] is in its death throes, and what comes after is uncertain.^[7]

[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 this second dot-com boom/bust passes, you'll likely see me schmoozing my way into my own business (private practice law?) or an executive position. Should I fail to find a profitable niche in the next boom, I don't mind dating college girls full-time. Not a bad ending.

[1 cont.] As you might have guessed, I legally changed my name to avoid anti-Hindu racism. Amusingly, this has worked out very well. There are a lot of Hindu-Americans who take nicknames and mock themselves in a failed attempt to "fit in". My advice for them – just change your name. You can always change it back. Both first and last names. "Gary Patel" just sounds weird.

[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.

[2 cont.] Compounding this issue is the fact that we have rapidly increasing interest rates for the first time in 40 years. Since Reagan's second term, interest rates have continuously declined, letting the U.S. print more dollars and pass off inflation as economic growth. Technology hasn't advanced meaningfully since 1970 (even the Internet was invented in 1969), so most American "innovation" is really just sophisticated financial scams. But now cold war with China and hot war with Russia/Iran mean this is no longer sustainable. American prosperity is over. The job market and quality-of-life here will only get worse.

[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 tennis and golf 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 a Hindutva intelligentsia is a worthwhile goal.

[3.5] As someone "smarter than the average bear", I think I can use my financial independence to both live a grand life and make a lasting positive impact on thousands of people. (Eusocial-maxxing!) Most people have neither intellect nor money, and so marrying a good person and raising good children is the best course for them. But as someone with both, I'd like to optimize for true freedom. (If you're working some degrading job your whole life, you might as well double down. Marry a nice girl and have lots of kids. At least 3!)

[4] Please take things easier. Most people I know fail at everything, then cope with their failure by lying and pretending something stupid (living in America, being "white", having light skin, being Christian/Muslim, etc.) means they're actually successful. Delusional disorders are widespread and probably intensified by the Internet. Even if you gaslight yourself, nobody else will believe you. Why bother?

[5] The 2024 election was the last one that mattered. Even if Democrats win every election from now on, the war with Iran is irreversible, as are the end of USAID and all the foreign policy shifts re: Israel/China/Russia/India. The Supreme Court is also set for a generation. There is no hope of return to pre-2025 norms, let alone pre-2017. Either embrace the new America or leave if you have the money to.

[6] 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 AI/remote work (which make 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. Another possible end date is 2020 (COVID-19 lockdowns/PPP loans and a majority of U.S. children are now non-white^[6.5]).

[6 cont.] All this sounds complicated, but really, all you have to remember is that only 5 countries actually matter – USA, Israel, China, Russia, and India.^[6.75] Don't worry too much about the internal politics of Europe, MENA, SEA, Ukraine, Pakistan. Know the "Big 5" and their relations with each other, and you understand everyone else too.

[6.5] America was founded on white supremacy, so a non-white America will necessarily fade into obscurity. (A country of mercenaries who fly home every time the economy tanks won't last very long.) The increasing relevance of the "Other 4" powers is a consequence of the ongoing decline of the white man. (There was no attempt by the system to integrate me as "American" in any sense. I've always been treated as and considered myself "an Indian in America". America's failure to craft a multi-ethnic identity may be its doom.)

[6.75] Maybe add Iran to the list. But I'm still not sure they won't just surrender when (not if) Israel/USA nuke Tehran. If they have the balls to withstand that assault or to develop and actually use their own nuclear deterrent, I'll accept them as a superpower.

[7] Some speculation on what lies ahead –

• China is almost certainly not the future. Their population is declining precipitously (35 years of one-child policy will do that), and they decisively lost both their military confrontations with India over the past 10 years (Galwan 2020, Pahalgam 2025). The latter ended with India bombing many Pakistani military bases without triggering a prolonged war or nuclear exchange, effectively ending China's only power projection outside its own borders. If China doesn't win World War 3 against America, they will eventually be dismembered by India and Russia with U.S. backing. "Do nothing. Lose."
• China shares the same dependence on foreign oil that crippled Japan in World War 2. If Iran succumbs to Israel/USA, we are likely to see the U.S. sanction China for importing Gulf oil, which will immediately trigger World War 3 in the same way the U.S. embargo on Japan importing Southeast Asian oil led to Pearl Harbor. Regime change in Venezuela already destroyed Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere. Pakistan joining the "Mecca Pact" against Iran is also ominous for China.
• Muslim dominance in the Democratic Socialists (Mamdani, El Sayed, Chevalier, Fateh, etc.) is very likely to destroy the Democrats as a political force. High-IQ Jews (Saul Alinsky, Betty Friedan, Felix Frankfurter, etc.) built liberalism in America, so Democrats driving them away by embracing the pro-Palestine cause might be fatal (Muslim-Americans chanting "Killer Kamala" and "Genocide Joe" for a year straight may have decided the 2024 election). Now the U.S. will be pro-Israel (and by extension pro-Russia/India, anti-China/Islam) for the foreseeable future. Thank you Muslims!
• Rapid fertility drops in Mexico and Colombia (to 1.2 and 1.0 children per woman respectively, the same as Japan) imply the future of the Americas is unlikely to be Hispanic. A quarter of all Mexicans in the world already live in the U.S., but despite this, Mexican-Americans have failed to obtain any meaningful power here. "If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?" I suspect Spanish will not be spoken widely 100 years from now.
• And I've said this elsewhere on here, but whites are definitely not the future. The average white globally is 45 years old and increasingly hated. There are 3 million fewer white Americans today than in 2016. Most U.S. children are non-white, race-mixing in the younger generations is very common, and most white women don't want children. My guess is the whites interbreed with the Mexicans and then they go extinct together. An extremely funny end for the "master race".