Projects
- Building something new in the civic tech space.
- Working on a new physics-inspired Monte Carlo sampler with a secondary application in nonlinear programming.
- Collaborating with Harvard on an archival Somali music project (followup to this post).
Reading
In progress:
- Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay
- Just Ride by Grant Petersen
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X & Alex Haley
- The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
- Trains by Genevieve Yue
On deck:
- A Line in the Sand by James Barr
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
- Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
- The Essence of Software by Daniel Jackson
- The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam by Muhammad Iqbal
- The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
Finished:
- Bad Mouth: Fugitive Papers on the Dark Side by Robert M. Adams
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
- I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar ibn Said's America by Mbaye Lo & Carl W. Ernst
- Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
- Naked Economics: Undressing The Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
- Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study by Idries Shah
- No Exit And Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- Pan-Africanism: A History by Hakim Adi
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
- The Duties of Brotherhood in Islam by Al Ghazali
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Prophet by Khalil Gibran (reflection)
Piano
Learning:
- Asturias (Leyenda) by Isaac Albéniz
- Ball by Duval Timothy (arranged by Zhiwen Liang)
- Summerland by William Grant Still
Refreshing:
- Perpetuum Mobile by Simon Jeffes (arranged by Paul Barton)
- Étude Op. 10, No. 9 by Frédéric Chopin
- All the Warm Lives by Masakastsu Takagi