Finishing Anna Karenina and What It Stayed With Me
Reflections on completing Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and my connection to Levin, the novel’s tragic core, and the force of its characters.
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Tom is a web developer, reader, and systems thinker in Maryland sharing projects, notes, and tools that make everyday operations smoother.
Why Watching Movies at Home Is the Future
The movie theater is no longer the default. Streaming reflects how people actually live, watch, and choose today.
Tools I Actually Use: Withings + Lose It
How I use the Withings Body Smart scale and Lose It app to manage fitness, nutrition, and daily awareness through a simple, consistent system.
What I Took from Part Six of Anna Karenina
Tolstoy’s contrasts in Part Six made me think about steadiness, restlessness, and the fragile ways we try to find balance.
What I Took from My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Ordinary moments, teenage embarrassment, and a father's death examined with unflinching detail in Knausgaard's autobiographical masterpiece.
FEATURED BOOKS
Books with enough highlights to change how I think or work.
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
32 highlights
"To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam...."
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
7 highlights
"The trick is that he did not organise his notes by topic, but in the rather abstract way of giving t..."
The Wolves of K Street
Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins
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"Joseph Coors Sr., of the beer brewing empire, and in 1973 he funded the creation of the Heritage Fou..."
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I share new tools, workflows, and reading notes every few weeks.
Finishing Anna Karenina and What It Stayed With Me
Reflections on completing Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and my connection to Levin, the novel’s tragic core, and the force of its characters.
Why Watching Movies at Home Is the Future
The movie theater is no longer the default. Streaming reflects how people actually live, watch, and choose today.
Tools I Actually Use: Withings + Lose It
How I use the Withings Body Smart scale and Lose It app to manage fitness, nutrition, and daily awareness through a simple, consistent system.
What I Took from Part Six of Anna Karenina
Tolstoy’s contrasts in Part Six made me think about steadiness, restlessness, and the fragile ways we try to find balance.
What I Took from My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Ordinary moments, teenage embarrassment, and a father's death examined with unflinching detail in Knausgaard's autobiographical masterpiece.
FEATURED BOOKS
Books with enough highlights to change how I think or work.
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
32 highlights
"To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam...."
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
7 highlights
"The trick is that he did not organise his notes by topic, but in the rather abstract way of giving them fixed numbers...."
The Wolves of K Street
Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins
7 highlights
"Joseph Coors Sr., of the beer brewing empire, and in 1973 he funded the creation of the Heritage Foundation,..."
CONNECT
I share new tools, workflows, and reading notes every few weeks.