My name is Mateo Shkodra,

I love playing soccer, and I used to play competitively until high school, now I just play for fun. Here is a cute video of me playing as a kid.

At the moment I am really into martial arts and fighting. I started training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Winter 2025, and Judo in Winter 2025. I'm a white belt in both, hopefully that will change soon.

I used to be super into the piano, but I don't play as much as I used to. It is still my favourite genre of music, check out my spotify playlist.

Current Repertoire:

• Prelude in C# Minor Op. 3, No. 2 - Rachmaninoff
• Waltz in C# Minor Op. 64, No. 2 - Chopin

I'm into philosophy, primarily existentialism. Though I'm branching out my reading list more and more. Excuse the categorization below, hard to group each book into single categories.

Current Reading List:

Philosophy

• Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle


• Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
• The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
• The Outsider - Albert Camus
• Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky



Fiction

• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
• When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro



Miscellaneous

• Deep Work - Cal Newport
• Can't Hurt Me - David Goggins
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport