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No New Friends Part 4: Friction

This is part 4 in a series about friendship, making friends, and now keeping them. You can start here if you wish, or just read this one.

2d ago

2d ago

Memes as an expression of cultural illiteracy

Jun 5

Jun 5

God from the machine

I’ve written a few essays since the proliferation of these new AI models, one on its purported impact on education, and the other on its…

May 30

May 30

Fiction: Birthday Party

“Yeah, sometimes when Mia hangs out with us, I feel like I’m third wheeling.”

May 22

May 22

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…

May 15

May 15

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

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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