Ted Chai
San Francisco, CA

milieu

[mēl-ˌyü] n.
: the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops
: the ideas, media, and people that collectively shape me.

Books

Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace
Lee Kuan Yew, by Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill and Ali Wyne
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Chip War, by Chris Miller
A Promised Land, by Barack Obama
Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, by Ray Dalio
The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
Atomic Habits, by James Clear
Zero to One, by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
On China, by Henry Kissinger
White Nights, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Kill Chain, by Christian Brose
Energy and Civilization, by Vaclav Smil
Unit X, by Chris Kirchhoff and Raj Shah

Articles

Foreign Affairs
The Atlantic
The New York Times
Foreign Policy
Wall Street Journal

Podcasts

Dissect
The Daily
Intelligence Matters
The IQT Podcast
Masters of Scale
How I Built This
茶歇中文
Dwarkesh Podcast
The Foreign Affairs Interview

Movies

Parasite
Catch Me if You Can
The Dark Knight
Silence of the Lambs
Shutter Island
Minari
La La Land
Moonlight
12 Angry Men
Up
Inglourious Basterds

Don Toliver
The Neighborhood
Kendrick Lamar
The Strokes
Frank Sinatra
Laufey

Linkedin
ted@recall.ai