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Favorite

Consumer Goods

• Alera High Performance Task Chair (My spine’s best friend.)
• AmazonBasics 8” Chef’s Knife (Kitchen workhorse at an unbeatable price.)
• ASUS ROG Strix 27” 4K Monitor (PC games as they were meant to be.)
• Bowflex SelectTech Adjustable Dumbbells (Baby’s first weight set.)
• CAP Barbell Flat Weight Bench (Perfect for dumbbell workouts.)
• De’Longhi Portable Air Conditioner (Makes working in the summer bearable.)
• Dr. Collins’ Perio Toothbrush (Angle into the gumline to get all trapped food particles.)
• Kitchen Mama Auto Electric Can Opener (Opens up a whole world of canned goods.)
• iBUYPOWER Pre-Built Gaming PC (For work and play.)
• Mitchum Men’s Deodorant (Anti-perspirant to keep workouts focused and dry.)
• Motorola G Power (Cheap smartphone with two days of battery life.)
• Nature’s Bounty Fish Oil Softgels (Essential omega-3 fats for healthy soft tissue.)
• Nike Men’s Air Max Shoes (A 1.5” height boost to 5’11” makes life much nicer.)
• Optimum Nutrition Whey Protein Powder (Four scoops post-workout for optimal gains.)
• Redify Jump Rope (Who needs a treadmill?)
• SABRE Pepper Gel (Self-defense you can actually use.)
• Sensarte 12” Nonstick Skillet (Tacos, fried chicken, pasta sauce, burgers, and more!)
• Vive Wrist Brace (Type for ten hours a day.)
• ZNHIS Magnetic Bookmarks (Avoids the mess of disposable paper bookmarks.)

Hobbyist Books

• The Big Book of Exercises by Adam Campbell (Start here for life-long fitness.)
• Double Your Dating by David DeAngelo (Can’t live with women. Can’t live without them.)
• 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 (Love is downstream of sex.)
• Set Your Voice Free by Roger Love (Breath and posture are the keys to speaking well.)
• Strong Enough? by Mark Rippetoe (Make your workouts count. Also watch the videos.)

Philosophy Books

• Certain to Win by Chet Richards (How to outmaneuver and defeat much larger enemies.)
• The Complete Works by Arthur Schopenhauer (Patron saint of intellectuals.)
• The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti (Nobody actually exists.)
• Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse (How a pawn can become a player.)
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (Either exercise power or have it exercised on you.)
• Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman (Our perceptions merely approximate reality.)
• Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich (Living in fear of death is worse than dying.)
• Straw Dogs by John Gray (Giving up hope of “ultimate meaning” is the secret to happiness.)
• The Trouble with Being Born by Emil Cioran (Resignation is only the beginning.)
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel (Push the boundaries of what’s possible, or don’t even start.)

Economics Books

• Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (Jobs are more about societal control than actual work.)
• The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan (We waste a third of our lives social signaling.)
• The Death of the West by Pat Buchanan (Whites will be gone by 2100.)
• Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt (Hierarchies deform every aspect of our lives.)
• The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao (Organizational politics for dummies.)
• How Civilizations Die by David Goldman (Birth rate collapse will lead us to war.)
• Open Borders by Bryan Caplan (Citizenship as a barrier to employment just hampers growth.)
• River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins (Suffering and scarcity are built into the system.)
• Screen Schooled by Joe Clement (Social media is Roald Dahl’s “Television” on steroids.)
• Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis (Big Tech is more powerful than most governments.)
• Untrue: Women, Lust, and Infidelity by Wednesday Martin (Primate dating market dynamics.)

History Books

• The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell (American culture from 1964 to 2015.)
• 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.)

Novels

• A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin (Living history is written in blood.)
• The House of God by Samuel Shem (Doctors are lawyers in white coats.)
• 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 (Alternate timeline where Hillary won in 2016.)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Surreal reflections on white imperialism.)
• The Witches by Roald Dahl (A boy and his grandmother against the world.)

Short Stories

• “American Gold Mine” by Paolo Bacigalupi (Any professional can relate.)
• “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin (You can’t outsmart physics.)
• “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 (Climate change will take grueling years to play out.)
• “Golden” by Nick Bostrom (Animals are trapped in a real-life horror movie.)
• “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 Biblical 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 am a Hindu.)
• Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (Trying and failing to make sense of life.)
• Here by Richard McGuire (100 years from now, nobody will remember that you existed.)
• Invincible by Robert Kirkman (Thrilling visions of post-racial multilateralism. Why fight?)
• 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.)
• Yossel: April 19, 1943 by Joe Kubert (When the state is your enemy, there’s nowhere to run.)

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Political Views

I'm a Hindu. I presently vote Republican. Vivek is my hero.

I mostly vote for foreign policy. Trump's Republican Party is pro-Big-Tech, pro-Israel, and anti-CCP. This makes them de facto pro-India. Democrats can win me back by doing the same.

Otherwise, I don't care about politics. If you're a non-binary gay trans Marxist Muslim polyamorist, more power to you. Seriously, go wild. I don't care.

Some deep thoughts –

• If I had a time machine, I'd try to prevent the Peloponnesian War. It ruined everything.
• White supremacy is finally ending as whites become a minority in the U.S. and Europe.
• Similarly, radical Islam won't survive as total fertility rate (TFR) plummets in the Middle East.
• China, Japan, and South Korea's populations are now declining. East Asia already peaked.
• If "development" destroys your birth rate and ends your civilization, development is pointless.
• Without population increase, GDP growth becomes a zero-sum game of squeezing the poor.
• Shrinking populations are fatal under neoliberalism. China may be forced to start a world war.
• Assad's fall ended Chinese dreams of an African empire. America will remain dominant there.
• The Russia-Ukraine war is bankrupting Europe to U.S. benefit. This may be the point.
• Should Modi die or lose power, India will quickly collapse. Barring that, India should do well.
• Post-10/7 and the 2024 election, most geopolitics is downstream of Israel and Netanyahu.
• (To clarify, the U.S., Russia, and India support Israel. China and Iran don't. World War 3?)
• Christianity and Islam are both rooted in Judaism, which makes antisemitism a little absurd.
• Monotheistic religion is mostly a proxy for ethnicity. Sincere belief in an afterlife is rare.
• (Christianity's rapid decline post-1968 is probably related to the end of legal white supremacy.)
• The deadlocked U.S. Congress is irrelevant. Only the president and Supreme Court matter.
• No important law has been passed since Obamacare in 2010 because of the Senate filibuster.
• Trump's tariffs are a parallel tax system that bypasses Congress. He's functionally a king.
• His dismantling of USAID was an open-handed gift to India and Hindus. Long live Trump.
• The new $100k H1B tax makes hiring top H1Bs easier by reserving more visas for Big Tech.
• (Lesser-paid tech work can just be offshored now that remote work is universally accepted.)
• Since 2020, lockdowns, remote work, and global X/Tiktok have transformed (ended?) society.
• 80% of screen time is on mobile. This is wrecking social media, movies, and general culture.
• LLM (ChatGPT) overuse has made a mockery of education. Diplomas mean nothing now.
• (Maybe all this is for the best. Most of "society" is bullshit advertising and propaganda.)
• Once the LLM bubble pops, we face a forever AI winter. Human-level AI will never happen.
• Interest rate hikes in 2022 were pivotal. Post-2008, most economic growth is from inflation.
• Our first-world lifestyles require issuing debt for future generations to pay off. This can't last.
• As the Boomers retire and die, Western governments will let the "middle class" wither away.
• (Asset prices will skyrocket as a result. Those who can still afford to invest will make a killing.)
• (Though, like Warren Buffett, I'm expecting a massive crash first. But afterwards will be fun.)
• Since 1971, innovation has ground to a halt. Our life's purpose is to make rich bankers richer.
• (Socialism won't help. Crippling the economy then trying to redistribute what's left is nuts.)
• Neglecting nuclear power keeps the world dependent on U.S.-dominated oil supplies.
• Climate change is real but overfeared. Losing your income is likelier to kill you near-term.
• Longevity research is bizarrely underfunded. A cure for aging would be worth infinity dollars.
• Private healthcare makes doctors mercenaries who will mistreat you for profit. Don't get sick.
• (If you must get sick, book a one-way plane ticket to India, Mexico, Spain, etc. for sane care.)
• European men are not circumcised, but white American men are. Have you wondered why?
• Assisted suicide as the norm for end-of-life care would prevent so much needless suffering.
• I'm surprised more terminal patients don't commit crimes. What do they have to lose?
• (Similarly, if you're trapped in an office until you drop dead, is a prison cell that much worse?)
• In retrospect, two decades being lectured at by mediocre teachers was a prison sentence.
• Student loans are a scam. College abroad is cheap and you can come back here to work.
• (Master's degrees are a total scam. You might as well tattoo "I'm a rube" on your forehead.)
• Life's too short to be abused at a "bullshit job". Inheritance or marrying rich is the way to go.
• The world is priced for dual-income couples, so optimize your spouse instead of your career.
• We are physical beings. Life's greatest joys are good health, exercise, and lovemaking.
• (Financial pursuits like your career only matter insofar as they forward your physical goals.)
• Can't find a job? Try joining the military. No layoffs, good benefits, and combat is optional.
• If you want children, I advise having 3 or more. Working your life away for 1 or 2 is bad ROI.
• Popularizing IVF and selecting for more girl children would fix a lot (crime, racism, etc.).
• Male social status is a function of height and IQ, both of which are heritable. DNA is destiny.
• (Even short white billionaires like Bezos are openly mocked. But race won't hold you back.)
• Genetic recombination in a competitive world is hell. What if your sons are short or stupid?
• The human condition may be slavery. I see no solution other than fiddling with the sex ratio.
• A few leaders (Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Reagan, Trump) decide history. We're just along for the ride.