Ideas gathered, people known, lessons learned.

Random selection of worldview inspiration fragments, significant or useful to me at some point.

Papers

• Statistical physics and biology by Giorgio Parisi
• More is Different by P. W. Anderson
• A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Free Will by Lenore and Manuel Blum
• What is it like to be a bat? by Thomas Nagel
• Why Anything? Why This? by Derek Parfit
• Information, physics, quantum: The search for links by John Archibald Wheeler
• On the Differences between Scientific and Artistic Approaches to Qualitative Research by Elliot W. Eisner
• How Mental Systems Believe by Daniel T. Gilbert
• The weirdest people in the world? by Joseph Henrich et al.
• The mundanity of excellence: An ethnographic report on stratification and olympic swimmers by Daniel F. Chamblis
• In the brain, the model is the goal by Bartlett W. Mel
• Cortical control of behavior and attention from an evolutionary perspective by S. Murray Sherman and W. Martin Usrey
• The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring by Daniel F. Chamblis
• Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from materials science literature by Vahe Tshitoyan et al.
• Toward understanding the communication in sperm whales by Jacob Andreas et al.

Essays

• Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot
• The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger
• Neurons Gone Wild by Kevin Simler

Poetry

• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain by Emily Dickinson
• Asking the Way by Ko Un
• Open and Closed Spaces & Summer Plain by Tomas Tranströmer
• Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost
• The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
• "I saw a man pursuing the horizon" by Stephen Crane
• If- by Rudyard Kipling

Documentaries

• Rivers and Tides by Thomas Riedelsheimer on Andy Goldsworthy
• The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau by Alan Landsburg and Jacques Cousteau
• Hands of Bresson by Robert Bresson curated by The Criterion Collection

Music

• Passacaglia by Leopold Godowsky
• The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett
• Fratres For Cello And Piano by Arvo Pärt
• Tiny Desk Concert by Hermanos Gutiérrez
• Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Interviews

• Day at Night of Ray Bradbury

Photography

• Ren Hang
• Saul Leiter
• Helmut Newton
• Massimo Vitali
• The Constructor by El Lissitzky and Leap into the Void by Yves Klein & Shunk-Kender