I have some a pretty comfortable couch bed where I host friends and family from time to time, so this is a bit of an extension of that to a broader group. And there’s just something wholesome about sharing your home with a complete stranger, putting your trust in an international community of like minded people.

Music: I have a Spotify favorites playlist that I expand slowly over time if I hear something I like, but this list includes all kinds of genres from Classical (Western as well as Indian) all the way to Jazz, Heavy Metal and Rap. Sometimes I listen to the same Artist or even the same song for a week. For some time now it’s AnnenMayKantereit that’s been my „earworm“ Films: This list is going to be insanely long if I list all my favorites. But one movie I sort of obsess over is “the Man from Earth” by Jerome Bixby. If you have seen this one, I would love to hear your thoughts! Books: I have probably read every Harry Potter book at least twice, and #3 and #6 about 5 times. Then I recently picked up a fan-fiction, Methods of Rationality, and loved it more than all the original books 😄. I also like to read nonfiction from time to time; the Sapiens series by Yuval Noah Harrari and a few Jared Diamond books are favorites in that area. In sci-fi, I quite enjoyed the Martian and Dune, and the Culture series by Ian Banks has been on by to-read list for quite some time now.