consume a lot: everything sissi takes in

essays, blogs and websites i keep going back to

essays / blogs / websites that i keep going back to

• 写给更年轻的人 · 刘元, 真格基金 ('to those who are younger', a 2020 letter by liu yuan of zhenfund: love what you actually love (finance usually isn't it), consider joining a startup, take the road fewer people take. the original link went down, so the full text is kept on this site)
• paul graham's essays
• sigil wen on productivity
• richard liu
• farza
• sonnet xu
• claire wang
• jia chen
• andrej karpathy
• nathan yan
• catching the (venture) bus · jen kha (an x article on how vcs think about mistakes of omission vs commission)
• neural networks are already clean · goodfire (nick cammarata's essay arguing most neurons are understandable)
• a clean neuron is not yet an explanation · zhimin hu (a response to the goodfire essay)
• lilian weng
• weekly robotics
• google deepmind research
• hugging face blog
• sebastian raschka
• chip huyen
• anthropic engineering

stuff on the internet i love and enjoy

stuff on the internet that i love and enjoy

• falling fruit (a map of free fruit to forage in cities)
• are.na
• craigslist sf bay area
• hacker news
• arxiv
• 3blue1brown
• the mother of all demos · douglas engelbart, 1968 (a youtube video)

books

wormy book-wise

• how to travel with a salmonumberto eco
• the loserthomas bernhard
• no exitjean-paul sartre
• the phoenix projectgene kim, kevin behr, george spafford
• the unicorn projectgene kim
• the fuzzy and the techiescott hartley
• the mom testrob fitzpatrick
• power: why some people have it and others don'tjeffrey pfeffer
• intuition pumps and other tools for thinkingdaniel dennett
• rangedavid epstein
• the worlds i seefei-fei li
• misogyny in japanchizuko ueno
• view with a grain of sandwisława szymborska
• strange pilgrimsgabriel garcía márquez
• miguel streetv. s. naipaul
• the sound and the furywilliam faulkner
• things fall apartchinua achebe
• born on a tuesdayelnathan john
• sandwichcatherine newman
• simple passionannie ernaux
• the lovermarguerite duras
• the books of jacobolga tokarczuk
• primeval and other timesolga tokarczuk
• 夜晚的潜水艇submarine at night陈春成
• waldenhenry david thoreau
• notes from undergroundfyodor dostoevsky
• fearstefan zweig
• a country doctorfranz kafka
• chess storystefan zweig
• a hot potato is a warm bedherta müller
• the bluest eyetoni morrison
• belovedtoni morrison
• jazztoni morrison
• the desert of lovefrançois mauriac
• love begins in wintersimon van booy
• the great passageshion miura
• the color purplealice walker
• the fox was ever the hunterherta müller
• the hunger angelherta müller
• other eyes sit in every sentenceherta müller
• the grapes of wrathjohn steinbeck
• thus spoke zarathustrafriedrich nietzsche
• the ship on the sea, the horse on the mountainfederico garcía lorca
• violin and gravefederico garcía lorca
• zen and the art of motorcycle maintenancerobert m. pirsig
• anxious peoplefredrik backman
• the dictionary of lost wordspip williams
• the walkrobert walser
• sheep man's christmasharuki murakami
• the myth of sisyphusalbert camus
• love in the time of choleragabriel garcía márquez
• tuesday siestagabriel garcía márquez
• being and timemartin heidegger
• the book of disquietfernando pessoa
• 哲学与人生philosophy and life傅佩荣
• ulyssesjames joyce
• the second sexsimone de beauvoir
• the courage to be dislikedichiro kishimi, fumitake koga
• 鳄鱼手记notes of a crocodile邱妙津
• 蒙马特遗书last words from montmartre邱妙津
• i am a catnatsume sōseki
• laughable lovesmilan kundera
• the book of laughter and forgettingmilan kundera
• immortalitymilan kundera
• the unbearable lightness of beingmilan kundera
• the art of the novelmilan kundera
• the farewell partymilan kundera
• identitymilan kundera
• the jokemilan kundera
• ignorancemilan kundera
• the festival of insignificancemilan kundera
• testaments betrayedmilan kundera
• beneath the wheelhermann hesse
• strait is the gateandré gide
• demianhermann hesse
• klingsor's last summerhermann hesse
• the metamorphosisfranz kafka
• the trialfranz kafka
• the castlefranz kafka
• the blind assassinmargaret atwood
• my brilliant friendelena ferrante
• selected works of yukio mishimayukio mishima
• a room of one's ownvirginia woolf
• jacob's roomvirginia woolf
• what my bones knowstephanie foo
• a cage went in search of a birdten kafkaesque stories
• on juneteenthannette gordon-reed
• why fish don't existlulu miller
• know my namechanel miller
• i contain multitudesed yong
• how to do nothingjenny odell
• i know why the caged bird singsmaya angelou
• the swimming-pool libraryalan hollinghurst
• the little library cookbookkate young
• thank you for not readingdubravka ugrešić
• baba yaga laid an eggdubravka ugrešić
• the ministry of paindubravka ugrešić
• the museum of unconditional surrenderdubravka ugrešić
• karaoke culturedubravka ugrešić
• foxdubravka ugrešić
• europe in sepiadubravka ugrešić
• the garden of forking pathsjorge luis borges
• noisedaniel kahneman, olivier sibony, cass sunstein
• the orphanageserhiy zhadan
• i will die in a foreign landkalani pickhart
• why do people get ill?darian leader, david corfield
• all my friends are deadavery monsen, jory john
• all my friends are still deadavery monsen, jory john
• the ultimate hitchhiker's guide to the galaxydouglas adams
• excellent sheepwilliam deresiewicz
• structures: or why things don't fall downj. e. gordon
• the tao of poohbenjamin hoff
• fahrenheit 451ray bradbury
• connectomesebastian seung
• siddharthahermann hesse
• of mice and menjohn steinbeck
• the giverlois lowry
• 蓝房子blue house北岛
• 摇摇晃晃的人间the swaying world余秀华
• 月光落在左手上moonlight rests on my left palm余秀华
• 无端欢喜joy for no reason余秀华
• secrets of the templewilliam greider
• fed updanielle dimartino booth
• sophie's worldjostein gaarder
• to kill a mockingbirdharper lee
• 穆旦诗全集collected poems of mu dan穆旦
• lord of the flieswilliam golding
• the most dangerous gamerichard connell
• klara and the sunkazuo ishiguro
• the great gatsbyf. scott fitzgerald
• project hail maryandy weir
• the odysseyhomer

music

robotaxi playlists

play me something

• i love you so f***ing much · glass animals
• how to be a human being · glass animals
• kiss all the time. disco, occasionally. · harry styles
• blue weekend · wolf alice
• rain · mxmtoon (a single)
• slow love · tender (a song on the album fear of falling asleep)
• the art of loving · olivia dean
• dear friend · 单依纯 (shan yichun) (a song: her live cover on 歌手2025 (singer 2025), episode 5)
• being funny in a foreign language · the 1975
• american idiot · green day
• songs about jane · maroon 5
• the divine feminine · mac miller

art

taste is all you need

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  adam's cool website · adamgryu

  (the personal site of adam robinson-yu, who made a short hike: a cream page, his hand-drawn purple wordmark, "hey there! don't mind me, just making games or something", a little bird, and links to his games)

games

the best form of expression imo

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  dave the diver (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p85VHMpE0to)

  (a game about diving for fish by day and running a sushi bar by night; the official launch trailer is on youtube)
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  balatro (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUyP21iQ_-g)

  (a poker roguelike)
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  overcooked! 2 (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcVISRmANIo)

  (chaotic co-op cooking)
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  mario kart 8 deluxe (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKlRN2YpxRE)

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  super mario bros. wonder (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvQNlGKNC6o)

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  snipperclips (斯尼帕) (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysJindVKx4s)

  (two paper friends snip each other into shapes to solve puzzles together)
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  a short hike (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usBVx4J4CUM)

  (a little game about climbing a mountain)
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  civilization vi (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdE0p2joJw)

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  baldur's gate 3 (trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuCfkgaaa08)

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  pokerlearning it right now :)

  (texas hold'em; photo: a royal flush, CC0, wikimedia commons)
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  wavelength

  (board game: guess where a clue lands on a spectrum)
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  codenames

  (board game: one-word clues to find your team's agents)
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  rummikub

  (tile game)
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  spots (斑点狗)

  (board game: roll dice to fill in the spots on dogs)
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  splendor (宝石商人)

  (board game: you are a gem merchant)

other things

all the other cool stuff in mai laife

• escape rooms