I am a hobbyist writer and currently publish on a personal Substack website. I mainly write personal essays and reading lists that round up interesting things I've found during my online gallivanting.
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If hobbies give us ways to be heroes, then we ought also to come up with our own personal origin stories for them. How apt, then, to discuss the journey of my first thousand miles of running. Adapted from one of the more meaningful assignments I worked on in undergrad, I talk about banality, paradox, modernity, ambition, aesthetics, love, and much more, framed by the stride of my own two feet.
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Coming off of a promising amateur career in shower singing, I tried out for a choir in college. A year and a half later, I ended up singing at Carnegie Hall. I reflect on the journey in between, while also ruminating on the nature of music performance, rebellion and meaning in the quotidian, and the complex art of screwing around.
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What happens when the body is pushed beyond its limit, when one pushes themselves towards destruction and achieves it? Glad you asked. I learned the answer intimately during an unusually humid half-marathon. This is my questionable personal race report, featuring an exercise in recreational philosophy and a recount of a fascinating out-of-body experience.
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Bikes are like the bugs of the streets. They gather in swarms, dart between cars and intersections, sometimes splatter onto the pavement, and cause general nuisance. But insects come in all stripes and forms, and similarly NYC plays host to an incredibly diverse cycling culture, a mere sliver of which I document here.
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Downhill skiing exploded in popularity in the 2010s, driven in no small part by consolidations, acquisitions, and the hand of private equity. It is a trend that swept me up as well: I explore the wintery parallel universe of the mountains and the forces (human and otherwise) shaping it, as revealed in an indulgent trip to Utah.
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Writing can be a form of preserving memory, a way to capture and preserve narratives, experiences, and states of mind. Harnessing this, I reflect on visiting my father's homeland, nestled in the middle of nowhere, and visit otherwise-forgotten aspects of our family's life and history. This piece is dedicated to my grandfather, whose passing motivated our family's visit.
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On the first Sunday of November 2024, I put on a running t-shirt, taped a paper sign saying "GO FASTER" on the front, and took the subway to Brooklyn to spectate the NYC Marathon. These are my observations of a city in celebration during the largest marathon on Earth.