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The first time I stood on a pair of skis I was so young I can’t even remember it anymore. During the next 25-ish years I went skiing or snowboarding at least one week every winter. Nowadays I live in a tropical country so I don’t get much chance, but every once in a while I get a strong itch to hit the slopes. The only way to cure it is to go on vacation to a ski resort. At t...


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With a gentle humming the lift chair pulls me upwards towards a sky that’s not quite black. The hills below me are lit up at intervals by spotlights that cast cones of an eerie pinkish glow across the landscape. Bare ground covered in withered leaves, dotted here and there by patches of snow. Naked trees with their brown spindly branches, like insectoid fingers stretching tow...


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A couple of years ago I hiked all five peaks of Five Finger Mountain (五指山). At the end of that hike I came to the conclusion that the ring finger and little finger peaks are only worth hiking if you have the explicit go...


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My son is turning six today. Lately I’ve been thinking about how becoming a father has changed me, and the things I have learned by taking care of my son. Here are, in no particular order, some insights and reflections that these six years have brought me.

Noticing Children
Young children are, due to their size, easy to overlook – quite literally...


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The Suit

I work in the linguistics department at Stellar Dynamics. My job is to analyze conversations between our personal AI assistant MIRA and our clients, and flag any inappropriate responses from the AI. The end goal is to create better training data so we can eliminate those behaviors. As you can imagine I read a lot of strange, sometimes even disturbing, things in my work; most ...


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