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In 2019, I wrote a blog post titled “How I Started Going to the Gym” based on Alex Hutchinson’s book Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? That
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Why write a long narrative history of my hip pain, going back to the beginning? Because I think it is an interesting case study in how difficult it
For about a week now I’ve been able to do two things that I haven’t been able to do in a very long time: sleep through the night without
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Taiwanese love to complain about their country and how it is going down the drain. And they also like to idealize how much more advanced and modern
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One of the biggest problems with political activists — wherever they lie on the left-right spectrum — is the tendency to oversimplify. This is
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