Hi there, I'm Bennet. I love to build things and explore the world intellectually. History is my favorite method of exploration. This is my personal website — where I document projects, write down the stuff I want to get out there, and other personal-website things.

Books I've read / am reading

  • Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society by Paul Goodman
  • Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
  • The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
  • Churchill by Paul Johnson
  • The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
  • Letters to a Young Creator by the Steve Jobs Archive
  • The Book of Elon by Naval Ravikant
  • Invention: A Life of Learning Through Failure by James Dyson
  • Raise a Genius! by Laszlo Polgar

Books I really want to read

  • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volumes 1–6, by Edward Gibbon
  • Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
  • Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
  • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
  • What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
  • John Adams by David McCullough
  • History Matters by David McCullough

Daily podcast reel

  • Founders
  • David Senra
  • Hardcore History
  • Acquired

Fascinating People

  • Richard P. Feynman
  • Alexander the Great
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wilbur & Orville Wright
  • Edwin Land
  • Jesus
  • Will Durant
  • Bill Gates
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Patrick Collison
  • Winston Churchill
  • Isaac Newton
  • James Dyson
  • George Washington
  • Elon Musk
  • Palmer Luckey

Life philosophy

  • Be kind. Make somebody's day better. Treat them better than anybody has ever treated them before.
  • Be default happy. There is absolutely no upside in being miserable, and there is only gain in being happy.
  • Be useful. Do or make something that would improve the life of somebody, somewhere.
  • Be different. Stop copying the crowd. Introduce a new, unique way of experiencing life. It makes you special.
  • Think independently and reason into belief. Just because the herd is jumping off a cliff doesn't make it right.
  • Conform. It is important to be harmonious on a minimal foundation with society, or else society doesn't work.
  • Be curious. Be curious. Be curious. Being curious about everything widens your understanding exponentially.
  • Read! Read a fucking history book. You do not know anything about life unless you've read history books.
  • Focus. Focus on the important things in life. Focus on your goal. Limit what you pursue to just three goals.
  • Family. One of those goals should be your family. There exists no better experience in life than a loving family.
  • Purpose. Have a purpose in life. People with no purpose slowly wither away a miserable and useless existence.
  • Help. Always help anybody and everybody when you can. It is both self-fulfilling and improves a person's life.