i don’t know. i love the sensory feel of physical books, but i use my ereader much more. as a trade for the mediocre answer, i’ll offer a few of my recent favourite reads:

the unpublished david oglivy - david ogilvy
let my people go surfing - yvon chouinard
the fish that ate the whale - rich cohen
stranger in a strange land (grokking!) - robert a heinlein
masters of doom - david kushner
a man for all markets - ed thorpe
foundation series (all 7 books are delightful) - isaac asimov
poor charlie's almanack - charlie munger
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field - nancy forbes + basil mahon
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[updated: mar 01, 2025]

i can rap the first verse of drake's only you freestyle. word for word. bar for bar.

my sketchbook! while the time a page takes is consistently longer than what i predict, i don’t regret any minute. if you’re interested, check it out here :)

generally, i enjoy lower intensity complementary colour duos, such as #e2b6a1 + #00563B and #FBE187 + #212f58. i dislike sloppy use of analogous colours. however, when used intentionally, even some of the most conventionally jarring colour combos can be beautiful.

here are a few examples of colours i've used in designs :)

Y stands for my middle name, “Yue.” I use ellyypeng because ellypeng is sometimes used in usernames, and I want my accounts to be consistent (ellypeng.com redirects here too!)

eating pizza backwards (sort of). i eat the crust first because it’s my least favourite part of the pizza. after, i can enjoy all good parts, and it elevates my pizza experience

my laptop stand. i always get weird looks when i whip it out in public, but at least i sit straight now!