# Backpack — Stella Ellervee

Things I like, am reading, or am currently interested in — good conversation-starters if we ever meet.

## Books

### [How Rich Countries Got Rich… and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_S._Reinert)

Erik Reinert's history of economic development, arguing that today's rich countries got that way through deliberate industrial policy — not the free trade they now recommend to everyone else.

### [The Maths That Made Us](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brooks_(science_writer))

Michael Brooks traces how the invention of numbers — zero, negatives, algebra, statistics — reshaped civilisation.

### [Blood Relations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Knight_(anthropologist))

Chris Knight's theory that human culture emerged from a social and political revolution initiated by women, built from evolutionary biology and social anthropology.

### [The Unthinkable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Ripley)

Amanda Ripley's reporting on how people actually behave in disasters, and what that reveals about surviving one.

## Entertainment

### [Stargate SG-1, Season 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1)

Absolutely goated TV show.

### [Lord of the Rings Disco: One Funk to Rule Them All](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm9codc_zwk)

A genuine banger. One of a growing pile of AI music that's actually good.

### [Foundation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(TV_series))

Apple TV+'s adaptation of Asimov's Foundation — psychohistory, empire, and the long view on civilisational collapse.

### [2 Cars](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.officialbrain.twocars&hl=en)

A one-thumb arcade game — steer two cars down parallel lanes at once, and don't crash either.

### [Lohewiki, Random Article](https://www.dragon.ee/lohewiki/Eri:Juhuslik_artikkel)

A wiki for Estonian tabletop RPG and LARP communities. This link rolls a random article — a good rabbit hole.

## Adventures

### Hiking-ish

A loose photo dump from treks, hikes, and expeditions — shooting range and stone balancing included, because apparently that counts too.

- Stella in a black lace dress, firing a handgun at an indoor shooting range stacked with tyres.
- A group walking away across a grassy field at dusk, trees and clouds on the horizon.
- Three hikers walking down a dirt forest road in autumn, trees turning yellow on either side.
- Stella on cross-country skis on a snowy road, wearing a large backpack and holding ski poles.
- A group of ten people posing in a snowy field, photographed from below by someone in a blue beanie in the foreground.
- A woman in a red fleece and snowshoes standing on a bog under an overcast sky, ski poles slung over her shoulders.
- A hiker asleep sitting against a tall wooden lookout tower post, backpack still on, in a sunlit pine forest.
- A woman in a pink dress climbing a rocky sea cliff, with the coastline and open water below.
- Stella in a black dress balancing a stone on a large boulder, flanked by two tall stone stacks on a rocky shoreline.
- View from the ground of knees and a lake at golden hour, a birch tree and a fallen branch reflected in the water.
- A wooden boardwalk trail winding through a bog at sunrise, a few pine trees scattered across the moss.
- A close-up selfie of a hiker in a knit beanie with a loaded backpack, standing on a sunlit forest trail.
- Two hikers with tall backpacks walking away down a sunlit forest trail, the sun flaring directly overhead.
- Illustration of Pepe the Frog as an armoured knight, sitting by a campfire outside a ruined castle.

Estonian version: https://stella.ellerv.ee/et/backpack.md