I’m a very curious person with too many interests. I’m legally-trained, and have since picked up programming/basic computer science. Some of my main preoccupations are the questions of how to increase access to justice, to live a good life, and how to expand the space for more people to live good lives. This includes issues of income inequality and environmental sustainability.
More broadly, my interests lie in moral and political philosophy, behavioural economics, machine learning, technology law (in the most general sense, any law that involves technology – and yes, that’s very broad), and legal technology. I’ve more recently been trying to learn to play the piano, play the guitar better, and how to touch-type.
My favourite writers/thinkers, in no particular order, include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Vonnegut, Munger, Buffett, Taleb, Singer, Garcia-Marquez, Rawls, Obama, Brooks, Bourdain, Prassl, Tim Wu, Chan Sek Keong, Tommy Koh, George Yeo, Lee Kuan Yew, Shanmugaratnam, Teo You Yenn, Christian Wiman, Gerard W. Hughes, Thomas Merton, Thich Nhat Hanh, Denning, Bingham, and Hale.
Books
I’m currently slowly working my way through Anthony Bourdain’s stuff. I love how much of a bon vivant he was, and how sincerely he interacted with people from all walks of life through food. I am also trying to get through Love and Math by Edward Frenkel, and Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. Law-wise, I’m trying to finishing Law as Data, edited by Livermore and Rockmore. I hope they put together more materials on the subject.
Programming/Computer Science
I’m trying to get through Papadimitriou’s Computational Complexity. My brain is exploding.
Music
Whatever the Tidal rabbit-hole brings me down, but you cannot go wrong with Queen, Led Zeppelin, Nine Inch Nails, Khruangbin or Damien Rice.