Monthly Archives: August 2019

I live in a place where I don’t have free speech. I grew up in a place where people talk about free speech all of the time. And despite that first sentence, I would consider the right to free speech to be one of my core values. There’s currently a lot of discussion of that […]

Sometimes I find myself thinking about where “home” is. I’m from Durham, NC. I’ve lived in Beijing, China, almost nonstop since graduating from college. I’m 39 years old, so I think it works out that I’ve lived in China for about as long as I lived in North Carolina. My wife was born in Hunan, […]

When the topic of change comes up, a common argument against potentially reasonable change is, “Well, that’s a slippery slope.” One example of this is income sharing agreements offered by companies like Lambda School. You pay no tuition upfront, then you pay the school back with 17% of your income if you make over $50,000, […]

Well, in starting my new practice of mostly daily posts, I accidentally posted on my old Chinese blog. I went ahead and reposted it here. One of the things that excites me about writing every day is having a record of what I was thinking about. For instance, I was on to something here. And […]

So I’m going to try and write something most days. I’m inspired by Seth Godin and Tony Sheng, and while I don’t expect my writing to be as profound or thoughtful (at least not always), I think that the discipline of writing something each day and finding the courage to hit “publish” will help me […]