The Inner Monologue

If you peel back enough layers of my curiosity, you eventually arrive at a simple truth: I don’t have favorite websites in the traditional sense. I have digital habitats—places I wander through like a nomad with a Wi-Fi signal instead of a compass.

I live in a world where information is oxygen, and my dopamine is tied to discovery. So my favorite “websites” are really functions, not destinations.

I love platforms where knowledge compounds and where someone, somewhere, is doing the slow work of thinking.

I love Wikipedia

Not for the articles themselves, but for the hyperlinks. A single click takes me from quantum mechanics to Mongolian steppe history to the origins of butter. It’s the library stacks feeling—except infinite and open after midnight.

I love YouTube

Not as entertainment, but as a university without tuition:

Lectures on economics

Deep-dive documentaries

RV tech repairs

Solar, inverters, and batteries

Philosophical rabbit holes about civilization’s cycles

YouTube is the democratized library of Alexandria—minus the marble columns and plus a comment section full of goblins.

I love the National Park Service

Because it feeds my travel soul, my outdoors soul, and the part of me forever thinking in the language of trail dust and open sky. Every park page feels like a door to the next chapter of my wandering.

I love online maps

Google Maps, satellite imagery, elevation overlays. Give me a landscape to inspect, a road to imagine driving, an empty desert I may one day park an RV under. I use maps the way some use meditation.

I love finance dashboards and economic data sources

Not because I worship markets, but because I study them like weather systems. My life is partially built around optimizing freedom, and these places tell me whether the climate is changing.

And yes, I love the AI platforms

The ones that don’t just answer questions—they amplify curiosity. Tools that act not as encyclopedias but as thinking companions in an age where thought is increasingly outsourced.

If there’s a theme…

My favorite websites aren’t about consumption. They’re about expansion.
Not distraction—connection.

The world has become a digital savannah, and I graze across it deliberately:

Learning

Planning

Observing

Dreaming

Building future versions of myself one tab at a time

And occasionally, yes, falling down a rabbit hole about obscure military history, obscure technology prototypes, or the exact photovoltaic curve of a solar panel in winter at latitude 35°.

Some people scroll to escape.
I scroll to arrive.

That’s the difference.