A deliberate pivot into risk consulting — building the foundations, international relations and data, from first principles up. Everything begins there. ↗ open to a conversation
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Now
this month’s open tabs, by someone who should probably be asleep.
Between books.
Plain-Python tools that run the day-to-day: a calendar sync, a finance dashboard, and this site. No frameworks. ↗ the workshop
A quiet day or two at home.
Arabic and Spanish, slowly — learned the way anything sticks, by building a system around them.
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Kitaabi
Nothing here matches that.
politics & geopolitics7
the communist manifesto
karl marx & friedrich engels
deng xiaoping and the transformation of china
ezra vogel
destiny disrupted
tamim ansary
from third world to first
lee kuan yew
the message
ta-nehisi coates
no good men among the living
anand gopal
a world of three zeros
muhammad yunus
fiction16
as long as the lemon trees grow
zoulfa katouh
brave new world
aldous huxley
ficciones
jorge luis borges
set aside
giovanni's room
james baldwin
the help
kathryn stockett
the kite runner
khaled hosseini
life of pi
yann martel
the map of salt and stars
zeyn joukhadar
set aside
ms ice sandwich
mieko kawakami
murder at the patel motel
maulik pancholy, zackary grady & achilles stamatelaky
listening now
nectar in a sieve
kamala markandaya
on earth we are briefly gorgeous
ocean vuong
rejection
tony tulathimutte
river spirit
leila aboulela
siddhartha
hermann hesse
the stationery shop of tehran
marjan kamali
memoir10
the beautiful struggle
ta-nehisi coates
between the world and me
ta-nehisi coates
curfewed night
basharat peer
everything i learned, i learned in a chinese restaurant
curtis chin
the fire next time
james baldwin
from here to eternity - traveling the world to find the good death
caitlin doughty
greenlights
matthew mcconaughey
this american woman
zarna garg
waiting for a visa
b.r. ambedkar
we beat the street
sampson davis, george jenkins, rameck hunt
growth & philosophy5
courage - the joy of living dangerously
osho
courting the wild twin
martin shaw
the next conversation
jefferson fisher
something in the woods loves you
jarod k. anderson
the will to change
bell hooks
craft & observation7
the art of gathering
priya parker
how to build a fashion icon
law roach
the psychology of everyday things
don norman
songs on endless repeat
anthony veasna so
thinking in systems
donella meadows
you're not listening
kate murphy
zaha hadid - complete works
philip jodidio
kept to flip through
coursework19
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Sound
The other half. The music goes out as mylesddles — the other alter ego.
0:00 the tail end of a mylesdoodles take 0:14
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The Garden
Notes from an ongoing vault — interlinked, half-finished on purpose. Not a blog. Hover a seed for a gloss; the accented ones open a full note. Read the published notes →
South Asia & geopolitics
The region as a system of pressures — migration, borders, power. Where most of the reading lives.
Data & risk
The toolkit for the pivot — turning messy reality into decisions you can defend.
Earth & deep time
Geology as the longest-running system of all. Continents are just slow news.
Sound & culture
How music and meaning move across borders — and how brands quietly engineer who we are.