Mindy McTeigue
Duke '17 grad living in Austin, TX. CEO at Gems.
I also love to read (history and fiction), dance, and paint.
Some Links
The Name of the Wind books by Patrick Rothfuss
The First Law Trilogy and sequels by Joe Abercrombie
Light Bringer (from the Red Rising series)
The Poppy War (but not the sequels)
Brandon Sanderson's 2020 BYU Lectures on Writing (!!)
The History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan
This book of letters between Catherine the Great & Grigory Potemkin
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
Electricity in the 17th & 18th Centuries by J.L. Heilbron
Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
On War
The first YouTube video
Fast Projects by Patrick Collison
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease by D.A. Henderson
A Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas & How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
Apollo 11, the documentary
Peak by K. Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool
Scaling Tacit Knowledge by Nintil
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
Searching for Bobby Fischer
The Anxiety Generation
Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay
The Normal Bar
Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
Mating in Captivity & The State of Affairs by Esther Perel
There Will Be Blood
It's a Wonderful Life
Matilda
Oh you beauty
"If Snot Boogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?" "Got to. This America, man."
El Profesor
These books by my amazing dad
The American Mock Trial Association
Simon Sarris' instagram
Matt Bateman's Twitter
Henrik Karlsson's substack
This coffee shop for vegan pastries in Oakland
This joint book shop & coffee shop in Austin
Simone Biles!
@senada.greca, @morganrosemoroney, and other strong women
These dances choreographed by Kyle Hanagami
Foundation Training by Dr. Eric Goodman for posture and back health
How the Internet Works, Computer Networks, the World Wide Web, Wireless Internet, and Modems by Chris Woodford
Haskell Programming from first principles by Julie Moronuki & Christopher Allen
Make Your Own Kind of Music by Cass Elliot
Stockholm, Flying Over Water, and If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell
Traveling Man and Sun to Me by Zach Bryan
Eliot's Song by Dominic Fike & Zendaya
Elysium by Bear's Den
Fletcher, Maisie Peters and, british girl pop bangers
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
The Swing by Seamus Heaney
Last updated: March 3, 2025