List of posts

  • 2019 Review, 2020 Goals

    2019 was an interesting year, and one in which we made some big changes, including buying a used Tesla Model 3 and getting a large solar power array for our home. It was also a year that marked a sharp leftward turn in my political thinking, driven primarily by concerns about climate change. 2019 Books…

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  • The 5-50-5 Workout Plan

    I have come up with a new workout plan. While I have no delusion that anyone other that myself would be interested in this, I’m going to document it here anyway, mostly for the sake of having it in writing somewhere. I’m calling it 5-50-5 because it’s very simple: run 5 miles a day. do…

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  • 2018 Review, 2019 Goals

    Another year has drawn to a close, which means it’s once again time to review how poorly I’ve done over the prior year! 2018 Review This year ended up being considerably more insane than I thought it would, particularly given the firing of my Tech in Asia team which led to an accelerated job search,…

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  • A long review of School of Motion’s Animation Bootcamp that I doubt anyone will ever read.

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  • Why I’m all-in on motion graphics. Yes, there are reasons!

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  • 2017 review, 2018 goals

    My yearly goal reckoning and goal-setting. Look out for next year’s post about how I failed at all of this!

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  • ChinaGeeks archive

    Just a link to the archive of the much-loved and occasionally controversial but now-dead China blog I used to run.

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  • Why climb?

    A lengthy piece I wrote prior to our attempt at summiting Mt. Rainier (we failed) that attempts to answer the question of why anyone would want to take these risks.

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  • A look at how I did over 2016, and what I wanted to do in 2017.

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  • Some nonsense I presumably wrote after seeing/sleeping through Rogue One.

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