Return Trip: Planning Experiences That Matter
Planning a return to a dense Asian city with a focus on experiences that can't be replicated elsewhere—and the challenge of coordinating friends across time zones.


Blog of Richard Austen
Planning a return to a dense Asian city with a focus on experiences that can't be replicated elsewhere—and the challenge of coordinating friends across time zones.
There's a version of my city I've never experienced: the one tourists see. Time to fill in the gaps.
What happens when cheap rent meets eclectic interests? Industrial neighborhoods become laboratories for trying things you never knew you wanted to do.
I've been thinking about the gap between knowing what's good for me and actually doing it consistently.
January—睦月, the month of affection and harmony—has become my laboratory for practicing restraint.
I studied Math and Computer Science at Harvard College and currently am a Quantitative Trader based in in New York. This is my blog, where I reflect on memories and life happenings. Many of these blog posts will be AI-assisted or completely AI generated. I will read them over and make sure they represent my thoughts in at most a week's time. The domain name of the blog is pulled from a random word generator.