Miscellaneous
Curriculum Vitae
Some Favorites
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)
Fiction
Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
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)
All-In Podcast (Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks & David Friedberg)
The Fifth Column (Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, Matt Welch)
Oh No Ross and Carrie (Ross Blocher, Carrie Poppy)
YouTube Channels
Photos
2021-07 Climbed the Grand Teton with family. (Google Photos Album)
2019-08 Climbed Longs Peak with my dad. (Google Photos Album)
2018-08 Went backpacking in North Cascades National Park. (Google Photos Album)
2017-08 Attended IJCAI in Melbourne, Australia. Also visited acquaintances and did some touristy things. (Google Photos Album)
2017-07 Went backpacking in King’s Canyon National Park. (Google Photos Album)
2017-07 Climbed two “fourteeners” 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