My aims with my work are:

1. Teach New Yorkers how to read books better
2. Teach people about personal library science
3. Make opinionated software

Bram's Reading App, Bram's Bounding App

I'm a New York City based developer. I'm learning Japanese (A0), and I'm on the road to become well-dressed.

In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki, The Great Bridge by David McCullough, The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, Arifureta Vol II by Ryo Shirakome, Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, Giants by John Stauffer, The Pencil by Henry Petroski, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid, Persuasive Games by Ian Bogost, Die With Zero by Bill Perkins, Montaigne by Stefan Zweig, Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton, Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu, The 50 Most Important Things in History by Sean Munger, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Paper Belt on Fire by Michael Gibson, Before Orthodoxy by Shahab Ahmed, Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner, The Polymath by Peter Burke, Washington by Ron Chernow, Ulysses by James Joyce, Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh, Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green, On Press by Matthew Pressman, String Theory by David Foster Wallace, Ametora: How Japan Saved American Fashion by W. David Marx, You Are What You Wear by Jennifer Baumgartner, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel, Shape by Jordan Ellenberg, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, Shipping Man by Matthew McCleery, Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges, Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy by Emmy Van Deurzen, Why We Drink Too Much by Charles Knowles, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nacosta, Creative Doing: 75 Practical Exercises by Herbert Lui, Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman, Boredom by Alberto Moravia, White Noise by Don DeLillo, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough, Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller by Alec Nevala-Lee, Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot

University of Rochester - B.S. in Computer Science

HBO, Algolia, OpenAI, Smarter Sorting, O'Reilly, Mr.Beast, US Holocaust Museum, Mastercard,

Services Offered

Your Commonbase, Stenography.dev, ChatGPT-MD, BHOV-2023, bramadams.dev Working Thoughts, bramadams.dev Working Software, BookTalks,

[email protected]

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• July 19 - July 31 2026 - Field Notes ID
• Look at That!: Discover the Joy of Seeing by Sketching - Bobbie Heron
• Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story - Jim Holt
• How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read - Pierre Bayard
• White Noise - Don DeLillo