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Favorite

Music

Consumer Goods

• AmazonBasics 8” Chef’s Knife (Kitchen workhorse at an unbeatable price.)
• ASUS ROG Strix 27” 4K Monitor (Gaming and web surfing as they were meant to be.)
• Bowflex Adjustable Dumbbells (Save space and avoid injuries and muscle imbalances.)
• CAP Barbell Flat Weight Bench (Perfect for dumbbell bench presses.)
• 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? Free up a room in your house.)
• 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.)
• Sensarte 12” Nonstick Skillet (Tacos, fried chicken, pasta sauce, burgers, and more!)
• 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.)

Lifestyle Books

• The Big Book of Exercises by Adam Campbell (Exercise catalog for dumbbells/home gym.)
• Deskbound by Kelly Starrett (Posture tips to radically improve your general quality of life.)
• 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.)
• Strong Enough? by Mark Rippetoe (Make your workouts count. Also watch the form videos.)

Hobbyist Books

• The Age of Movies: Selected Writings by Pauline Kael (Will transform how you watch films.)
• The Great Movies by Roger Ebert (Pair with a Criterion subscription. Also read II, III, and IV.)
• 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 Complete Works by Arthur Schopenhauer (Patron saint of intellectuals.)
• 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 (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

(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 (Whites will be mixed out by 2100. I’m helping!)
• Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt (Hierarchies deform every aspect of our lives.)
• The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao (Sheep led by sociopaths is a universal pattern.)
• How Civilizations Die by David Goldman (Birth rate collapse will lead 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 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 by Wednesday Martin (Monogamy is a recent invention in our evolutionary timeline.)

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 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 (Natural selection makes the world 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’m a Hindu.)
• Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (Trying and failing to make sense of life.)
• 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.)
• Invincible by Robert Kirkman (Thrilling visions of post-racial multilateralism. Why fight?)
• Open Borders by Bryan Caplan (The non-Islamic world is one big family. Let’s all mingle!)
• 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.)
• The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman (Issues #1-72 are peak post-apocalyptic fiction.)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (Our leaders are even more misguided than we are.)

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Political Views

I’m a Hindu. I vote Democrat, but I’m pretty centrist. Vivek is my hero.

Full nuances of my views follow. Please click the links.

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.
• (Women can’t have 2+ healthy kids past 35. Discouraging motherhood for “growth” is suicide.)
• 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.
• (This was a predictable outcome of the one-child policy. What was Deng Xiaoping thinking?)
• 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.
• (America’s quitting the empire business to fight Islamism with our Israeli friends. Wonderful!)
• (NATO countries are too old and decadent to subdue China, Russia, India, and Israel.)
• (So we’re focusing on defeating China while sharing power with the other 3 nuclear states.)
• (Though we’re not getting any younger, so it’s likely a permanent surrender of hegemony.)
• (Long-term I suspect the U.S. becomes as relevant as Brazil. Assuming no nuclear war.)
• (Or maybe even then. Nuclear winter is a myth, so I suspect the Chinese could recover.)
• (Slow suicide through demographic collapse or nuclear reset? The latter is tempting.)
• (Pakistan, the UK, and France’s nukes are U.S.-controlled. North Korea’s are by China.)
• (The U.S. and Russia support Israel. China doesn’t. India’s neutral. Is this World War 3?)
• Christianity and Islam are both derived from Judaism, so antisemitism is a little absurd.
• Monotheism is mostly a cover for ethnosupremacy. Sincere belief in an afterlife is rare.
• (Christianity’s rapid decline post-1968 is probably related to the end of legal white supremacy.)
• (Islamist violence, inbreeding, and pedophilia are similarly rooted in extreme sectarianism.)
• 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.
• (All Congress has passed for 15 years are spending bills. Printing money is all they do.)
• Trump’s tariffs are a parallel tax system that bypasses Congress. He’s functionally a king.
• His dismantling of USAID was a gift to the world. We should stay out of other countries’ affairs.
• 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.
• (I feel closer to X users in India than to my white coworkers. Telecommunications are a trip.)
• 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.
• (This is likely for the best. Being good at schoolwork was always a poor predictor of success.)
• (In retrospect, two decades spent being lectured at by idiot “teachers” was a prison sentence.)
• (We’re clearly not a serious society. Morons teaching morons how to be morons for 20 years.)
• (Then remember that healthy life expectancy is only 65. No wonder everyone’s so fucked up.)
• (I’m so grateful for the uncensored Internet. No more gatekeeping of knowledge by the rich.)
• (Besides Wikipedia, but people thankfully don’t trust it. Obscure books are the best source.)
• Once the LLM bubble pops, we face a forever AI winter. Human-level AI will never happen.
• (So what are all those data centers actually being built for? LLM-based mass surveillance?)
• 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. So for now, I’m in T-Bills.)
• Since 1971, innovation has ground to a halt. Our life’s purpose is to make rich bankers richer.
• (Socialism won’t help if it leaves the bankers in charge. Focusing on “billionaires” is a psyop.)
• Neglecting nuclear power keeps the world dependent on U.S.-dominated oil supplies.
• Bankers have suppressed awareness of climate change since the 1970s. It was avoidable.
• 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.)
• (Giving a fake name for free emergency care then fleeing the country after might also work.)
• (Insurance companies profit by denying claims, so it’s a con. Going uninsured may be fine.)
• European men aren’t 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 terminally ill patients don’t “break bad”. What do they have to lose?
• (Similarly, if you’re trapped in an office until you drop dead, is a jail cell really much worse?)
• Humiliating work conditions (5+ interviews, understaffing, micromanagement) make life a slog.
• “Careers” are largely a fiction. Your livelihood can be taken from you in a moment at a whim.
• (I’m frequently amazed by how smug white-collar workers are. At least serfs had job security.)
• (Seriously, how can you submit to an effeminate manager all day and still feel like a man?)
• (Then come home to limply fuck your bored wife and barely play with your TikTok-raised kid?)
• (Until you get laid off and can’t find another job and wifey divorces you. What a stupid life.)
• (Everyone I know drove themselves insane to make money, then failed to make any money.)
• 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.)
• (Making money is mostly about convincing people to give it to you, so it’s all sex in the end.)
• 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.
• 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.