Here are some lists of my favorite things. Individual lists are very roughly ordered by how much I like them.

If you have recommendations based on these lists, please let me know! Also, hope you find some new gems!

Games

I primarily play puzzle games. I also enjoy many board and card games, most notably deck-building games (check out Engine, a game my friend made). As per MIT tradition, I occasionally do puzzle hunts, though I’m not that great at them. I play some DDR as well, mainly because it doubles as exercise. I also try to stay away from Super Smash Brothers (Melee and Ultimate) due to its addictive properties.

Writings

Disclaimer: I don’t read much

Short stories

• Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
• Understand by Ted Chiang
• Scott Alexander’s pill story
• The Moral Virologist by Greg Egan
• Learning to Be Me by Greg Egan
• Forward Pass by Andrej Karpathy
• Lena by qnmt {::comment}
• Scott Alexander’s story of alchemy {:/comment}

Books

• GEB by Douglas Hofstadter
• Permutation City by Greg Egan

Web serial

• Worm (warning: dark, very long)

Blogs/posts

• Wait but Why
• Various writing from Paul Christiano. I especially recommend:
  • Integrity for Consequentialists
  • The Monkey and the Machine
• Chris Olah’s personal blog and Distill.pub
• Hyperbole and a Half
• Geometric rationality