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Dominik SzoboszlaiFootball

Dominik Szoboszlai Is Having the Season of His Life and Nobody Is Talking About It

Let me be transparent about my biases before I make any argument. I am a Manchester United fan writing a love letter to a Liverpool player. I have a deep fondness for Hungary that predates any football allegiance. And the man has personally carried me through more FIFA sessions than I care to admit. None of this disqualifies the argument. Dominik Szoboszlai is having one of the most underrated seasons in the Premier League right now, and he has the potential to become one of Liverpool's all-time greats.

SSon·Mar 16, 2026·12 min read

Formula 1Opinion

Formula 1's Biggest Gamble: Why the 2026 Regulation Overhaul Is a Change for the Worse

Formula 1 is undergoing a massive rules reset in 2026. Here is a brief history of how we got here, a technical breakdown of the new rules, and why they might ruin the racing we love.

SSon·Mar 16, 2026·20 min read

Bad BunnyBusiness

Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: More Than a Halftime Show

When Bad Bunny walked out of a field of sugar cane at Levi's Stadium on February 8, 2026, he was not just performing. He was making an argument about who America is, who it has always been, and who it is becoming.

SSon·Mar 16, 2026·15 min read

Book ReviewBusiness

The Engineering of a Monopoly: A Review of Peter Thiel’s Zero to One

As software engineers, we are taught to iterate, optimize, and scale. But Peter Thiel’s Zero to One argues that true progress doesn't come from a 10% improvement—it comes from creating something entirely new.

SSon·Jan 30, 2026·12 min read

CubanFood

Miami Ate My High Expectations: An Honest Review of the Food Scene From Someone Who Should Have Known Better

Miami has one of the most celebrated food reputations in America. Cuban food. Fresh seafood. The magic of a coastal city with Latin soul. I visited last November with genuine excitement and left with a more complicated relationship to that reputation. Coming from Vietnam did not help my standards. Or perhaps it helped them too much

SSon·Dec 2, 2025·11 min read

Alexandre DumasBook Review

The Count of Monte Cristo: Revenge as a Life Philosophy, and What It Costs

Alexandre Dumas wrote the greatest revenge novel in the history of literature. He also wrote, buried inside it, the most honest critique of revenge as a life philosophy that fiction has produced. The Count of Monte Cristo is not a celebration of what Edmond Dantès becomes. It is a reckoning with it.

SSon·Nov 6, 2025·11 min read

Book ReviewColdplay

In Defence of Coldplay: The Most Dismissed Great Band of Their Generation

No band in the last twenty-five years has been more casually dismissed by people who own at least three of their albums. Coldplay is not cool. Coldplay is also brilliant. It is time to say it without apology.

SSon·Aug 6, 2025·9 min read

Film ReviewHot Take

La La Land Is Not a Love Story. It Is a Film About Two People Who Chose Themselves.

La La Land is one of the most visually beautiful films of the last decade. It is also, on honest inspection, a film about two people who are so consumed by their own ambitions that their relationship was always going to be a casualty of those ambitions. The tragedy is not that they could not be together. It is that neither of them genuinely tried.

SSon·Jul 30, 2025·12 min read

Film ReviewMovies

Titanic: Why James Cameron's Masterpiece Still Breaks Me Every Time

I was a kid obsessed with ships. Not just Titanic. All of them. Britannic, Lusitania, Olympic. I built entire worlds in my head from grainy photographs and library books. Then James Cameron made a film that put all of it on screen, and added a love story so devastating that the ocean itself felt like it was grieving. I have never fully recovered.

SSon·Jul 9, 2025·17 min read

Film ReviewMovies

Hot Take: Parasite Won Best Picture Because Western Audiences Were Dazzled by Subtitles

Parasite is a very good film. It is also the beneficiary of one of the most inflated critical reputations in recent Oscar history, propped up partly by the specific way Western audiences respond to foreign language cinema. Let us have the honest conversation nobody wants to have.

SSon·Jun 30, 2025·8 min read

MathsOpinion

Why Statistics Is the Most Useful Thing I Ever Learned

I will admit upfront that I am biased. I have loved statistics since high school, long before I understood what it was actually for. But the older I get, the more I am convinced that a working understanding of statistics is the closest thing to a superpower that formal education offers.

SSon·Jun 21, 2025·8 min read

Book ReviewLiterature

Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Who Ever Didn't Exist

Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes in 1887, tried to kill him in 1893, was forced by public outcry to bring him back, and spent the rest of his life in an ambivalent relationship with a character he had made more famous than himself. Holmes is my favourite fictional detective. He is, by a considerable distance, the most influential fictional character in the history of literature. This is the case for why.

SSon·Jun 19, 2025·13 min read

Film ReviewMovies

The Wolf of Wall Street Is a Great Film. It Is Also Overrated. Both Things Are True.

Martin Scorsese's three-hour cocaine spiral is visually intoxicating, DiCaprio is electric, and Margot Robbie announces herself to the world. It is also morally evasive, narratively repetitive, and nowhere near the masterpiece its most devoted admirers insist it is. Let us talk about all of it.

SSon·Jun 19, 2025·14 min read

Book ReviewHot Take

The Alchemist Is Self-Help Dressed as a Novel and the Disguise Is Not Very Convincing

Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist has sold over 65 million copies, been translated into 80 languages, and is regularly described as a life-changing work of spiritual literature. It is also, on honest inspection, a self-help book wearing a shepherd boy's cloak. The disguise is thinner than people admit.

SSon·Jun 14, 2025·10 min read

Film ReviewMovies

Oppenheimer Review: Christopher Nolan's Most Important Film Yet

Christopher Nolan has made spectacles before. He has made thrillers, heist films, war epics, and time-bending puzzles. But with Oppenheimer, he has made something rarer: a film that genuinely haunts you. Not because of what it shows. Because of what it asks.

SSon·Mar 16, 2025·10 min read

OpinionPolitics

A World Watching: Trump's Return and What It Means From Where I Stand

As an international student watching America from the outside in, Trump's return to the White House didn't surprise me. Here's why — and why I'm choosing hope anyway.

SSon·Jan 3, 2025·7 min read