* Personal favorites in bold
The Magic of Tiny-Home Videos — The New York Times Magazine
About my year of watching tiny-home videos on YouTube
When You No Longer Recognize Your Home Country — The Atlantic
On migratory grief—the phenomenon of mourning one’s homeland when it undergoes such severe changes that it’s no longer recognizable
Steven Yeun’s Perfect Accent in “Minari” — The New Yorker
On the film “Minari” and the experience of living as a non-native speaker in America
Every Immigrant Is in a Long-Distance Relationship — Catapult
A personal essay about my long-distance relationship
How Our Circles of Friendship Churn and Evolve Over Time — The Atlantic
Why is friendship so mysterious? My interview with the Oxford psychologist Robin Dunbar
When Literature Meets Philosophy — An Ode to Philosophical Science Fiction — The New Republic
A review of Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories in praise of philosophical science fiction (despite the headline that might suggest otherwise!)
The Humanities: The Next Frontier for Korea’s Chaebol — Korea Exposé
On Starfield Library in Seoul
A Tale of Two Clubs — Nassau Weekly
On Princeton’s eating clubs: Ivy and Terrace
Life as Art — Nassau Weekly
A profile of the philosopher Alexander Nehamas and his meaning of the “good life”
How Do You Prove a Secret? — An Explainer on Zero-knowledge Proofs — Quanta Magazine
On zero-knowledge proofs: A counter-intuitive proof technique to prove the truthfulness of a mathematical statement without revealing any “knowledge” used in the process
The Hidden History of Screen Readers — The Verge
On blind programmers who have, for decades, created screen readers for the visually impaired community
How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection — Quanta Magazine
Q&A with the Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport on distributed systems (e.g., Paxos consensus protocol, Byzantine faults), computer science education, formal verification, and LaTeX
The Reducetarian Movement — TIME
A primer on the idea of “reducetarianism” (related TED Talk)