CJ Chang Writes

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A math major who dabbled in a lot of jobs. Now, I write. Mostly about life and why it's worth living.

A towering old-growth redwood tree with deeply furrowed bark and massive gnarled roots dwarfs a person standing at its base beneath a sunlit green canopy.
White wooden building painted with the message "Life is short. Be yourself." across its facade, a vintage streetlamp and traffic signs in front, and a vibrant mural of a smiling woman's face at street level beside a chain‑link fence and potted plants.
A by-the-wind sailor (Velella velella) washed ashore on a beach.
The first printout of the human genome to be presented as a series of books, displayed in the 'Medicine Now' room at the Wellcome Collection, London. The 3.4 billion units of DNA code are transcribed into more than a hundred volumes, each a thousand pages long, in type so small as to be barely legible. 📸: Russ London / Wiki Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0
Handwritten math demonstrating 1/√N: for N = 100, 1/√100 = 10%; for N = 1,000,000,000, 1/√N ≈ 0.00316%.
Electron microscope images of Pyrolobus fumarii after Epon embedding and freeze-substitution. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyrolobus_fumarii_Cell_Structure.jpg
A swallowtail butterfly resting on bright green leaves.
A picture of confetti in the air of a stadium at a concert.
Hand-drawn step-by-step diagram proposing to mark every molecule in one cup of water, pour and mix it thoroughly into the ocean, then scoop a new cup that contains about 100 of the original marked molecules.
Black text on white background that reads: There is nothing over which a free man ponders less than death; his wisdom is, to meditate not on death but on life. - Baruch Spinoza's Ethics. Pt IV, Prop. 67
An array of fresh dates at a supermarket in Dubai.