FWIW, aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that gets the least love in institutional settings, at least in my experience in the west. Academics in the west seem to love to be "substance over style" or "function over form," perhaps due to just how hard aesthetics is to nail down, even compared to metaphysics.

But nonetheless, to be a proper philosopher, you simply can't ignore beauty, and pleasure, and finding ways to maximize them in your life. One of the big reasons that it does no good just to read the work of enlightenment and beyond depressed European men (Hume spent years of his life depressed by his work just playing chess in the park); you need to actually go back and check out the work of the ancient Greeks, and people from around the world who did not fall into this left brain rabbit hole.

Not to advocate for debaucherous hedonism of course -- you can absolutely end up going too far in the other direction. But any philosopher worth his salt will recognize that eudaimonia isn't about cutting off your appetites, but bringing them into balance with the rest of your drives, intellectual an otherwise.

We talk about time preference a lot in bitcoin, and it's definitely important to avoid having a high time preference that leads to ruin. But that doesn't mean be a miser who never enjoys his wealth. Part of living wisely is...living.