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I recently got my American O1 visa.

Thanks for key conversations & early feedback: George Church, Andrew Payne, Luke Piette, Michael Retchin, Flora Guo, Merrick Smela, Greta Tuckute, Misha Yagudin, Tyler Cowen, Helena Rosengarten.

On my last gap year after high school, I ran a not-for-profit conference in San Francisco.

A rant.

Estimates for achieving intermediate fluency in Mandarin Chinese range up to spending years and around 4000 total hours (2,200h classroom hours, 1,800 outside).

I got pretty good in Mandarin within 12 months of rigorous part-time study.

Jetlag sucks.