❝ BOOK Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
Systems thinking for storage, streams, and distributed truth.
SHELF
Off-duty inputs.
A small shelf of books, anime, movies, and shows that stick with me. Carry-over from my previous portfolio — the stuff that shapes how I think.
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❝ BOOK Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
Naming, small functions, and caring about the next reader.
❝ BOOK Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
A sweeping history of the stories that let humans cooperate at scale.
❝ BOOK Atomic Habits
James Clear
Small systems and repeated choices compound into real change.
❝ BOOK Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The fast intuitions and slow deliberation behind our decisions.
❝ BOOK The Mind-Gut Connection
Emeran Mayer
A look at the conversation between the brain, body, and microbiome.
✦ ANIME Steins;Gate
White Fox
Time travel, labs, and the cost of changing one variable.
✦ ANIME Attack on Titan
Wit Studio · MAPPA
Walls, freedom, and a conflict that keeps widening its frame.
✦ ANIME Vinland Saga
Wit Studio · MAPPA
Vengeance gives way to a harder question: what makes a true warrior?
✦ ANIME Dr. Stone
TMS Entertainment
A civilization rebuilt one experiment at a time.
✦ ANIME Another
P.A. Works
A cursed classroom mystery with an uneasy, patient atmosphere.
✦ ANIME Your Name
Makoto Shinkai
Two lives, a comet, and a connection that crosses time.
✦ ANIME Monster
Madhouse
A moral thriller that follows one decision across Europe.
✦ ANIME Link Click
LAN Studio
Photographs become a doorway into lives that cannot be changed lightly.
▶ MOVIE Inception
Christopher Nolan
Nested layers, rules, and a spinning top of doubt.
▶ MOVIE Interstellar
Christopher Nolan
Love as a dimension — and clocks that refuse to wait.
▶ MOVIE Identity
James Mangold · 2003
Ten strangers, a motel, and a storm that keeps closing in.
▶ MOVIE Stree 2
Amar Kaushik
Horror-comedy returns to Chanderi with a new threat.
▶ MOVIE Mission: Impossible
Brian De Palma
An impossible assignment, a team under pressure, and the wire scene.
▶ MOVIE Fast & Furious
Justin Lin
Street racing energy, heists, and a crew built around loyalty.
▶ MOVIE Fight Club
David Fincher
A sharp, restless examination of identity and consumer culture.
▶ MOVIE 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet
One room, twelve jurors, and the discipline of reasonable doubt.
▶ MOVIE The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Sergio Leone
A desert epic of uneasy alliances, greed, and an unforgettable score.
▶ MOVIE Parasite
Bong Joon Ho
Class tension turns into a precise and unpredictable thriller.
▶ MOVIE The Prestige
Christopher Nolan
Obsession turns rivalry into a dangerous performance.
▶ MOVIE The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese
Ambition, excess, and the speed at which both become a trap.
◉ SHOW Dark
Netflix
Knots of time in a small town — spoilers are a closed loop.
◉ SHOW Stranger Things
Netflix
Small-town friendship meets a dimension hiding behind the wall.
◉ SHOW Alice in Borderland
Netflix
A deserted Tokyo becomes a game of survival and choice.
◉ SHOW When Life Gives You Tangerines
Netflix
A decades-spanning Jeju story about love, work, and endurance.
◉ SHOW Start-Up
tvN · 2020
A K-drama about founders, ambition, and building something real.
◉ SHOW Breaking Bad
AMC
A chemistry teacher makes one irreversible choice after another.
Recommendations welcome — tell me what to add →