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I want to become the best person I can be and help as many others on the way. "If I have a hand in helping you become successful, then I am successful."

Teaching, learning, computer science and cooking.

landscape photography, travelling, outdoor activities, books, great food & great friends

travel and travel writing (M. Palin, P. Theroux, W. Dalrymple), science (evolutionary biology, saving the environment...), history, comedy (Douglas Adams, S. Fry, M. Python)

Reading, writing, studying, arts (music + drawing + colouring and painting), my work (no, I'm not a workaholic but I work in a damn museum! :D). Striptease and (Romanian) politics.

the power of gratitude, Maui, Dzogchen, basketball , Vija Celmins, economic botany, Peter Zumthor, Asilomar, the night sky, Demel, phytochemical entourages, Wim Hof, Criterion, Biblioctopus, Neri Oxman, kaiseki, Long Now, Lake Ohrid, R.H. Blyth, Twin Farms, James Turrell, mountains, Vincenzo Di Marzo, euphoria as wellness, The Plan of St. Gall, José Andrés, fungal & plant networks, Dennis Severs House, Christopher Alexander, The Idler, Richard E. Schultes, R. Gordon Wasson, rhetoric, Ferran Adria, big forests, Katsura Imperial Villa, Welles, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Miyasaki, the Coens, Adam Curtis, Debra Granik and Christopher Nolan, Bach, Mahler, Vaughn-Williams, Louis Armstrong, Rachmaninoff, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, The Beatles, Kate Bush, Radiohead, Fiona Apple, Madlib & Burial, David E. Nichols, pharmacology, Jean Gebser, Pynchon audiobooks, Kamei puzzles, minimalist design, Ibn Sina, Beckett, LeGuin, Michael Lewis, and Joyce, terroir, Da Vinci, book collecting, Apple.

Wildlife, hiking, small scale organic farms, fitness, old growth forests, the connection between regenerative agriculture, nutritious food, healthy people and the health of our planet