01
Who Rules the World?
Noam Chomsky
Power, institutions, and the stories nations tell about themselves.
Updated May 2026
/now
A small public ledger of what has my attention right now: the books open on the desk, films queued for late nights, and a few recent impressions still hanging around.
Current bias
Systems of power, probability, value investing, morally complicated fiction, and directors who make every frame feel deliberate.
Reading
4 open threads02
Situational Awareness
Leopold Aschenbrenner
Ongoing notes on AI progress, timelines, and strategic pressure.
03
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger
Mental models, judgment, incentives, and practical worldly wisdom.
04
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A slower fiction counterweight to the strategy and markets shelf.
Cinema queue
watchlist ObsessionFull Metal JacketBarry LyndonThe KillingLolitaMidnight in ParisIn the Mood for LoveMore by Wong Kar-wai
Recently watched
notesEyes Wide Shut
Strange, controlled, and interesting. The Stanley Kubrick thread continues.
Amadeus
Large, theatrical, and still oddly intimate.
The Truman Show
A clean idea that keeps getting sharper with time.