About
I grew up in New Jersey, went to school in New York and Hong Kong, and have worked in finance and law. I also make sure to find time for learning new things and pursuing hobbies and personal projects.
Life is a tough thing sometimes. Our purpose here should be to minimize the suffering others must endure, and to understand the difficulty others may be feeling.
Especially important to me is finding time to read books, watch movies and explore blogs and learn about what interesting stuff other people are up to. So here are a few that you might find worthwhile to check out. Try something you don’t recognize, or share something with me you think I might enjoy.
Books
- The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks
- Never Mind, Taha Muhammad Ali
- Selected Poems, E.E. Cummings
- The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
- The Control of Nature, John McPhee
- Spooner, Pete Dexter
- Lawrence & Aaronsohn, Ronald Florence
- The Naked Woman, Desmond Morris
- Shadows of the Silk Road, Colin Thubron
- The Narrow Road to the Far North, Basho
Movies
- Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo
- 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle
- The Great Dictator, Charles Chaplin
- Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa
- Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa
- Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola
- Waltz with Bashir, David Polonsky
- Tampopo, Juzo Itami
- Mongol, Sergey Bodrov