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Chris Reads

The Kingdom of Bicycles

One of the aspects of modern Chinese cities most lauded in the West is the dockless bikesharing system. Though other countries may lay…

6d ago

6d ago

Multi-track theory

For the last couple of years, I’ve been leaning into health and longevity. There are many papers that aggregate the results of multi-years…

May 8

May 8

996/4HL/Severance

COVID-19 robbed a year or two of our lives. But have we ever stopped and considered what it has given us? In the West, COVID-19 liberated…

May 1

May 1

Film Review: Ne Zha 2

7/10. Good. Nothing special taken as a movie in and of itself, yet an extraordinarily interesting movie, especially from the perspective of…

Apr 25

Apr 25

Book Review: Speaker for the Dead

8/10. Excellent. If I would recommend it is another question to be addressed. Sometimes I wish I had a more nuanced rating system and was…

Apr 18

Apr 18

A life unexamined: If you can’t answer these three questions, then you need to start thinking about…

I was recently speaking to someone about life partners: I said that I would find it difficult, in today’s culture and economy, to be with…

Apr 10

Apr 10

Wasted Youth

I’m a sentimental person. Perhaps that’s what draws me to writing; I can only tell the same story to my friends so many times before they…

Apr 3

Apr 3

Before Thirty

Jeremey sat on the S7 towards the airport. He had a friend who once said that planes were such a romantic form of transportation, but for…

Mar 27

Mar 27

No New Friends Pt. 3: Actually, I want to make a few new friends

Does anyone have truly novel ideas? Or do they just recycle old blog posts with a bit of a clean-up? I pose this question in the age of…

Mar 20

Mar 20

The rise of the pluri-state and the loaded meaning of nation

It seems that immigration is currently a hot political issue: the H1Bs, the US border, and Indian international students. Yet, within a…

Mar 13

Mar 13

Chris Reads

Chris Reads

Asian American, Canadian, and Chinese, living in China. Drop a comment about anything. I don’t have an anonymized SM account to share, but we’ll figure it out.

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