Nourishment
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang
From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly.
Soundtrack: A Winged Victory for the Sullen by A Winged Victory for the Sullen; Woodland, The Paper Kites.
17,545 words / 105,018 characters. 2025-11-24.
Division by Zero - Ted Chiang
“How would you know what I can experience?”
Soundtrack: Vrioon by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
5,585 words / 31,662 characters. 2025-11-23.
Tower of Babylon - Ted Chiang
[...] it was as if the earth had rejected him for his faithlessness, while heaven disdained to accept him.
Soundtrack: The Blue Notebooks by Max Richter and Orphée by Jóhann Jóhannsson.
9,803 words / 53,663 characters. 2025-11-23.
The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges
By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters...
— THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, Part 2, Sect. II, Mem. IV.
2,996 words / 18,099 characters; \(\infty\) words / \(\infty\) characters. 2025-10-27.
Make a Mess, Clean it Up! - Donn Denman
Instead of avoiding the tough situations, he'd immediately create them, and immediately start learning how to handle the worst situation imaginable.
895 words / 4,965 characters.
I should have loved biology - James Somers
Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was.
3,843 words / 22,800 characters.
The Giver - Lois Lowry
"Thank you for your childhood."
~47,589 words / 268,256 characters.
Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur
The problems of program modification arise from acting on the assumption that programming consists of program text production, instead of recognizing programming as an activity of theory building.
~7,000 words / 40,000 characters.
This World of Ours - James Mickens
The Mossad/not-Mossad duality is just one of the truths that security researchers try to hide from you.
~2,989 words / 17,497 characters.