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Favorite Books

Below are all the books I’ve read since middle school, roughly in order. Those highlighted in blue were those I particularly enjoyed :) 2025 – Age 22: Willpower - Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney I was at a ZFellows event in SF where one of the speakers, …

Favorite Quotes

Here are a few of my favorite quotes I’ve liked over the years. Life: “I believe that a man should strive for only one thing in life, and that is to have a touch of greatness” — Félix Martí-Ibáñez “In Three Words, I Can Sum Up Everything I’ve Learned About …

This Mountain We Climb

This is a poem that I wrote my senior year of high school in AP Literature. Here we all are, this mountain we climb, the sure ascent, that lasts a lifetime, at the golden summit, a goal we all seek the meaning of life, at its Godly peak. Up we should go, …