Pop-Culture
Anime
Naruto
Naruto was always the most impactful anime in my entire life. It shaped me into who I am today. Most people start anime with a low episode count — I started with this mammoth. Could have backfired badly, but it turned out to be one hell of an experience. It taught me about fate, destiny, hard work, sheer will, and humanity.
Dr. Stone
I've loved science for as long as I can remember — because it's the one thing that stays undefined, with many answers to a single problem. It's always fulfilled my curiosity. The way this anime captured all of it — I crave to be a man like Senku. He's incredibly cool and a genius.
Frieren
Frieren is the comfort anime I'd been craving. I can watch it over and over and still be mesmerized by its beauty, story, and the power of human effort — how short a life can be, yet how remarkable an impact one can leave.
La La Land
I can only say one thing about it — the most adult horror movie you'll ever find. And that piano still haunts me.
Ready Player One
If my whole pop-culture future looks like this, I'll take it — as long as we don't get lazy inside the simulation.
Interstellar
This movie has always held a major place in my life. I can't imagine my teenage years without it — or my adulthood, for that matter. The recollection of its messages still scares the hell out of me.
Steel Ball Run
Can't say much except you should read it. I'll preach about it till my death.
Hell's Paradise
Picked up the manga on a whim as a timepass, but man — what a story. It shows what a man will do to see his loved ones again. The image it left in my mind is so vivid, maybe because the time I read it mirrored my own situation.
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
Best fiction ever written. Only thing I can say about it — read it to know more.
How I Met Your Mother
I can watch this show any day, any time, at any age. I will never stop laughing at the group's banter and chemistry. One thing to say — it's LEGEND — wait for it — DARY. Legendary. I also want to steal this concept to tell my kids the story of how I met your mother.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Brooklyn 99 will always be the sitcom I watch on any rainy day. The comedy is the best. I dearly need a friend like Jake Peralta.
Modern Family
If my parenthood or late 30s look like Phil Dunphy — I'll take it. Love this show with my whole heart.
The Mentalist
I hope to be as cool as Patrick Jane. The man is so freaking charming and witty.
Chernobyl
If someone told me a five-episode series could hit this hard, I would never have believed them — but it does.
Game of Thrones
The whole GOT universe will be, till the brink of time, the best fiction ever written in novels — after LOTR. (And forget about the last season.)
Character That Inspires Me
A moodboard of people who've clearly had an impact on me — good or bad, both.
Technical
What excites you on the engineering side? Languages, paradigms, problem domains, rabbit holes — this is the place for them.