What does traveling reveal about us to ourselves?

A little randomness, a little adventure, and a little company can bring a lot of meaning into our lives

As a surfer, I want to leave things better than when I arrive. Lives, cleanliness, etc. One time I even repaired a couch I was staying on.

I try to be an ideal member of the C.S. community - you should be, too. (So if you’re requesting to stay with someone, read their whole profile first!)
MORE ESSENTIAL READING ⬇️⬇️
https://blog.couchsurfing.com/three-golden-rules-of-surfing-on-couchsurfing/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The best app for meeting people who are interested in the world, and always learning to have an open mind… a couchsurfer once called it “speed friending.”

How can I be of help to my hosts? By learning to live like they do, for a little while!

Please note I have couchsurfing hosts in Japan and New York which don’t appear in my references, for various reasons.

Interests

• coffee
• powerlifting
• gardening
• chess
• hiking
• mathematics
• philosophy
• tea
• cello
• cabaret
• ethnomusicology
• solar
• stir fry
• baroque painting

Music, Movies, and Books

A classical musician by trade, so music is a favorite topic. Follow my musical life here:
mlorenzmusic.squarespace.com

Avid hoarder of books and old musical artifacts. With Nassim Taleb, my vice is buying books. Some recents:
2021 foundational texts in the philosophy of science. Husserl (Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness, Logical Investigations), and Kuhn (Structure of scientific revolutions). Rereading my favorite book, Brothers Karamazov, for the 5th or 6th time. Some umberto eco lately, Camus, and check out this novelty piece from Nabokov : http://marcelproust.blogspot.com/2007/01/philistines-and-philistinism.html
2/2022, more Nabokov (rereading pale fire) and more Dostoevsky (rereading the devils).
3/22 Merleau-Ponty, “Phenomenology of perception”
5/22 Paul Watzlawick
6/22 Oliver Sacks
7/22 more Watzlawick and Borwein and Bailey’s “experimental mathematics”
9/22 Karl Popper “Poverty of Historicism” and “logic of scientific discovery”
3/23 Carl Jung, “Answer to Job”

Not afraid of basic easy-watching cinema, recent highlights being Fast 9, Mission impossible fallout. However I am a lover of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick. I usually say my favorite movie is “Tous les Matins du Monde,” by Quignard.

2/2022, fell in love with Liza Monelli’s 1972 “Cabaret.”
3/2022, Kurosawa “Ran”
4/22-7/22 A series of movies about 2008 financial crisis available on YouTube.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Salvaged video footage of (probably) the only ethnic music festival in North Dakota.

Teach, Learn, Share

A couchsurfer once asked a couchsurfer of the one thing that all people around the world had in common. The couchsurfer’s couchsurfer thought for a long time, and then said, “we are all a bunch of sheep.”

The old ways of doing things might not be working for us anymore.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Is sharing stories like sharing knowledge? How are our skills developed over time, through reflection and failures?

More and more conversation, where we can learn together.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, France, Japan

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States