Some of my favorite articles, stories, performances, and pieces:

Computer Science

Paul Ford’s What Is Code?: an entertaining and engaging narrative that serves as a primer to understanding the chaotic world that is modern-day software development (I’ve compiled memorable quotes here)

History

Tim Urban’s Horizontal History:  a wonderful and entertaining explanation on how history should be approached

Basketball

Hakeem Olajuwon’s ‘Small’ Ball: an eloquent piece on basketball’s “small-ball” revolution

The Kobe System: how to achieve success at success at success

Tennis

David Foster Wallace’s Federer as Religious Experience: an homage to Roger Federer’s tennis brilliance

Music

Franz Liszt’s La Campanella: one of the most beautiful, simple, and fiendishly-difficult piano pieces that I’ve ever listened to

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story: the haunting finale to the musical Hamilton