I am a hobbyist writer and currently publish on a personal Substack website. (Why? Independent of its cultural affiliations, I find it a very no-frills way to compose, catalogue, and share online writing pieces while handily supporting email subscriptions for and from my friends and peers.) I mainly share personal essays and miscellaneous reading lists collated from my online gallivanting.
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What happens when the body is pushed beyond its limit, when one pushes themselves towards destruction and achieves it? I learned the answer intimately during an unusually humid half-marathon. This is my questionable personal race report, with a recount of a fascinating out-of-body experience.
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For the commuter, bikes are like the bugs of the streets, darting between cars and intersections, sometimes splattering onto the pavement, causing general nuisance. But insects come in all forms, and similarly NYC plays host to an incredibly diverse cycling culture, a mere sliver of which I document here.
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In the 2010s skiing exploded in popularity, 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 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. I reflect on visiting my father's homeland, nestled in the middle of nowhere, and reencoutering otherwise-forgotten aspects of our family's life and history.
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On the first Sunday of November 2024, I put on a NYRR 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.