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General

My career, reading the Western literary canon, calisthenics, HIT bodybuilding, baseball, American comics, anime with romanticism as a central theme, philosophy (ethics, metaethics, and epistemology in particular), mathematics, astronomy, American politics, economics (Austrian school), small government, historiography.

Music

Rush, Leroy Anderson, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Hands Like Houses, Gustav Holst, Vermillion Lies, Kokyo Active NEETs, Galt Aureus, the Interrupters, the Hoosiers, happy hardcore, and Frank Sinatra.

Movies

The Sound of Music, the Hurt Locker, Watchmen (2009), Agora, the Lives of Others, Hearts of the World, Strictly Ballroom, Dead Poets Society, Pirates of the Caribbean, Casablanca, Mark of Zorro, On the Waterfront, Silver Linings Playbook, La La Land and Network.

Television

Books

So far my life has been deeply impacted by Philosophy: Who Needs It, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, Anthem, Romantic Manifesto, Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Human Action by Ludwig von Mises, Iliad by Homer, Blackwell's A Companion to Ayn Rand by Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri, Winning the Unwinnable War by Elan Journo, What Justice Demands by Elan Journo, and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle.

Heroes

My fiancé: the defender of justice, free-will, and reason. 💞 Walter Kovacs. Ragnar Danneskjöld. Howard Roark.