Personal Growth
Why Comfort Zones Are Worth Expanding
On spending a year doing one uncomfortable thing per day, and what it changed about how I see myself.
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I write when I have something to say. These articles cover the things I care about: how people learn, how communities form, what it means to grow, and the beauty I find in mathematics.
These are placeholder articles — real articles coming soon. Topics reflect things Sam genuinely writes and thinks about.
Personal Growth
Why Comfort Zones Are Worth Expanding
On spending a year doing one uncomfortable thing per day, and what it changed about how I see myself.
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On Teaching Mathematics: Confusion as a Feature
Why I think confusion is not an obstacle in maths education — it’s the whole point.
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What Effective Altruism Means to Me
A personal take on doing good better, and how EA shapes the choices I make day to day.
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Starting a Meditation Practice: What I Wish I’d Known
Notes from years of practice and from co-founding a student meditation community.
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Building a Community from Scratch
How Student Meditation grew from four people with an idea to 130 members — and what we got wrong along the way.
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Improv Changed How I Think About Communication
The skills I picked up from improv theatre that changed how I listen, teach, and show up in conversations.
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Notes on Conflict Mediation
What a conflict mediation course taught me about sitting with discomfort and helping people hear each other.
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Managing a Team Across 11 Countries
Lessons from building and running a remote team of 25 people for the Beyond Polarization project.
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Why I Love Mathematics
A love letter to the subject I keep coming back to — and why I think everyone can find something beautiful in it.
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