• novelty seeking
• semiotics
• a desk littered with pearl-white printouts, highlighted and scrawled-in books, and a chess board mid-position from a game with a friend
• secret societies and the occult
• hiking in small groups
• mysticism and esotericism
• God; building God; also being God
• long runs
• long ergs
• emergent complex systems and their progeny, a womb for adult organisms
• political philosophy
• house music
• the rain, particularly in the dark under NY/London lighting
• making music
• seeking mastery
• peptides, oneirogens, and weird pharmacological agents
• mathematics, beauty over use
• @apralky (yung macro) and other shitposters
• tuning recommendation algorithms for intellectualism
• buying physical books
• artist masterworks
• intensive meditation experiences and consciousness cessation
• Dune / Foundation, deep sci fi
• Devanagari script, Deutsch, Francais
• rare youtube videos from experts, sub 100 views
• mechanical watches; wearing them; building them
• "-maxxing" maxxing
• merchandise from friends' projects
• gifting vintage wines