The speaker shares about their experience reading classic literature and mentions how being introduced to jargon like memes and DNA as ultimate meme as well as concepts like infinity and objective beauty set them on the path of becoming an avid reader. They also express their love for the flowery prose of authors such as Fitzgerald and how they came to realize that classic literature is just a collection of love stories.
The speaker shares how reading classics as a child set them on a path of appreciating love stories and how authors like Fitzgerald use flowery prose in creative ways to tell these stories.
The speaker discusses being introduced to jargon and concepts such as memes, DNA, infinity, and objective beauty through a more formal and rigorous approach to physics by a knowledgeable friend.
The official story behind the name "Axion" is that it came from a concatenation of the words accelerate and ion, but in reality, it came from the summoning charm "Accio" from the Harry Potter series.