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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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 Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
7 highlights
"scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeou..."
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
83 highlights
"My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, ..."
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
5 highlights
"But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favou..."
CONNECT
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 Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
7 highlights
"scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some he..."
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
83 highlights
"My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of any..."
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
5 highlights
"But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did w..."
CONNECT
I share new tools, workflows, and reading notes every few weeks.