Hi, I’m Alex.
Welcome to my corner of the internet. I go by CoderCorgi most places online.
I’m interested in how people connect, how communities form, and how to live well. This page is a running index of what I’ve found useful.
To reach me, DM me on Instagram or email codercorgi@gmail.com.
Conversation starters
Things I’ll happily talk about for an hour include:
- Connection
- connection games
- authentic relating
- T group sentence stems
- models like spiral dynamics
- Sensemaking
- ikigai
- AI infra investing
- Lifestyle
- traveling
- nomading
- sardines
- keto/carnivore diet
- Experiential
- nootropics
- ecstatic dance
- contact improv
- platonic cuddling
Cool communities
Inspiring communities for meaning-making:
- Global
- Seattle
- San Francisco Bay Area
- New York
- Austin
More community links: curius.app/alex-yun/communities
Recommended tools
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Granola — AI-native note-taking for meetings.
2 months free
Favorite features: AI-enhanced meeting notes, and asking AI questions about the transcript in real time.
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Curius — a shared library for bookmarks; annotate readings with friends.
My reading recs (work in progress).
- NotebookLM — interactive audio podcasts (and more) from your sources, free.
- uBlock Origin — the best ad blocker.
- fmhy.net — the most up-to-date links to free-media sites.
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Reflect — second-brain-style note-taking.
Free for .edu via reflect.app/student. See also their note-taking app comparison.
Also: Google’s tools for commenting, and Notion for more complicated things.
More, with referral links: CoderCorgi’s fav tools
Social links
- WritingSubstack · draftcorgi.substack.com
- Podcastcodercorgi.substack.com
- ProjectsUpping My P(doom), Explained · every reference in an AI-doom song, explained line by line
- Social
- MusicSpotify
- Occasionally updated
- Everythingbeacons.ai/codercorgi
Interesting resources
Emotional first aid
Personality tests
- 16Personalities MBTI
- IPIP Big Five
- OEPS Enneagram
- 5 Love Languages
- Attachment styles
Icebreakers
- The 2-Hour Cocktail Party: “Name, what you did during the day, fun/interesting fact”
- Supercommunicators, by Charles Duhigg
- Neel Nanda on making friends
- We’re Not Really Strangers
- Connection Games my hosting guide: Authentic Relating games and question decks
- 36 Questions for Increasing Closeness
- Inquisition.app
For the curious
Frameworks I find useful as conversation starters.
Events, ranked
Highly subjective. Ask me why.