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Miscellany

A running registry of the unusual, the off-brand, and the genuinely-did-that. Some of the most interesting things about a person never make it onto a CV.

  1. 01Walked on to a rugby team and won a national championship.Sport
  2. 02Spent two years as a missionary in South Korea — and still speak Korean.Travel
  3. 03Grew up working a cattle farm in Appalachian Ohio.Roots
  4. 04Built an industrial-grade hardwood-furniture shop out of a one-man garage operation.Built
  5. 05Assisted in surgeries on global-health expeditions in sub-Saharan Africa and the Himalayas.Medicine
  6. 06Turned down a surgical residency to teach myself to code.Odd
  7. 07Published some theoretical physics — mostly out of curiosity.Odd
  8. 08Shipped an open-source genomics engine that reached the Hacker News front page.Built