Miscellaneous
Curriculum Vitae
Some Favorites
Some media that have shaped how I think and feel about life…
Nonfiction
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman)
The Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt)
Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths)
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity (Peter Attia, Bill Gifford)
Bonds that Make us Free (C. Terry Warner)
The DevOps Handbook (Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Nicole Forsgren)
Fiction
Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin)
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
The Way of Kings (Brandon Sanderson)
Podcasts
Conversations with Tyler (Tyler Cowen)
Astral Codex Ten (Jeremiah; Scott Alexander)
Economist Radio (The Economist)
The Fifth Column (Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch)
Oh No Ross and Carrie (Ross Blocher, Carrie Poppy)
The Journal (The Wall Street Journal)
Photos
2021-07 Climbed the Grand Teton with family. (Google Photos Album)
2019-08 Climbed Longs Peak with my dad. (Google Photos Album)
2017-08 Attended IJCAI in Melbourne, Australia. Also visited acquaintances and did some touristy things. (Google Photos Album)
2017-07 Climbed Grays Peak and Torreys Peak with family. (Google Photos Album)
2016-04 – 2016-08 Bicycle tour from Rome to Edinburgh. I occasionally cheated and took the train. (Google Photos Album)
ORCID
David Merrell
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1281-0663