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I’ve been talking with a couple friends of mine about reading speed a lot. My friend Ani has been working on this side project, readfa.st (I have no idea if it’s supposed to be readfa.st or read fast or Read Fast or readfast or what, I’m sure he/they will figure it out eventually). As such [...]

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On my last trip to NY from Beijing I met a guy in the airport headed to Boston. We chatted a bit in the line waiting to check in, and then later on the plane we exchanged contact info. I’ve been going back and forth with him on emails and some of the questions he’s [...]

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Continuing my habit of posting my Quora answers as blog posts: Where are the best Japanese restaurants in Beijing? In terms of "where" geographically, my guess would be up near Anjialou, where I understand there to be a higher density of Japanese expats. Up there is a little pocket of a bunch of Japanese restaurants, [...]

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Another Quora link. I guess it’s good that most people I know are also active there because I guess until then these links will be pretty meaningless to everybody else. Anyway… What is it like to be a hapa in an Asian country? One thing for me has occasionally been the expectation of language skills. [...]

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Over the last few weeks me and this guy Josh have been trying to get a regular movie night rolling. So far it’s been moderately successful in part due to switching up our movie selections from very narrow appeal (Antichrist -> A Prophet [really good, by the way]) and in part because I have the [...]

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