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The Gates to the Forest

I. Here comes the part of the ceremony, where we have to sit through the musings about love, from the only single guy at this entire wedding. Normally what I like to do is tell jokes at the beginning, but this time I will try to keep things philosophical and

The Gates to the Forest
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What I said in Argentina: Innovation is a Transaction

📖Context: I was invited to be on a panel at the Inter-American Development Bank's Lab Forum in Buenos Aires, where I spoke innovation, climate change, and food security. It's online if you want to watch it, but I wrote the ideas here below. I humbly thank IDB Lab for the

What I said in Argentina: Innovation is a Transaction
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We should make public transit fare-free

💡This is Part 1 of a series that explores a question that I have been thinking about for a long time: Can we make public transit free?  We have a fare-based public transit because of the private-sector commercialization of mass transit in the 19th century, which had to operate on

We should make public transit fare-free
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Tantra, Tolle, and Transforming Worldviews

Tantra, Tolle, and Transforming Worldviews
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How I maintain friendships: A toolkit

Maintaining friendships is hard. It's even harder for friends in different time zones, friends who are busy and/or ambitious, and friends who have just fallen out of the radar over the years. I am reflecting on a few useful tactics I've accumulated over the years. I hesitate to publish

How I maintain friendships: A toolkit
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Beats, blood, and blackness

The Kendrick v Drake beef is over. Kendrick won, handily. So why am I still thinking about it? It seems that everyone I talk to is either really invested, or not invested at all. To those of you who can’t stop thinking about this (like me): why is that?

Beats, blood, and blackness
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Forget gratitude journals, try chain journaling

I invented a new form of gratitude journaling, called chain journaling

Forget gratitude journals, try chain journaling
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A letter to the people who nearly crippled me

1: observations At 12:59 PM PST on March 11th, 2024, you violently swerved your white sedan into the bike lane that I was in. Luckily, I managed to skid my Lyft bike to avoid your car pinching me against the other parked car on the right. In my rage,

A letter to the people who nearly crippled me
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How to start running: A biochemical perspective

I started running seriously last year, coming from basically zero aerobic base. I think I made big improvements in a short amount of time, and it's largely because of how I focused my training. There are 3 main modalities of training: 1. Mechanical - musculoskeletal, kinetic patterns, strength, flexibility 2.

How to start running: A biochemical perspective
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2023 Annual Letter

Happy holidays, friends. Phenology refers to the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate, plant, and animal life cycles. I love writing an annual letter every year because it's like a phenology of the self. Some themes are cyclically recurring in my life. Some energies

2023 Annual Letter