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" Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typically reserved for failed actresses and phenomenally successful rappers. "

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" Never post anything personal to your Facebook wall. Or anyone else's, for that matter. Only snitches and teachers look at Facebook. "

Mary H.K. Choi

Personal

Matter

Never

" The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back. "

" I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened. "

" When I was small, I thought I was just cooler than my mom because of how foreign she is. She's really foreign. You'd think it would kill her to get store-bought snacks, she's that foreign. "

" Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna. "

" Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other. "

" People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at. "

" I like science a whole bunch, but I love 'The X-Files' more - I want to believe. "

Mary H.K. Choi

Love

Believe

" I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that track people's various rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm curious, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's really the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome. "

Mary H.K. Choi

Curious

Enough

" As a consumer, I love superheroes. "

" I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.' "

" I am anti-Halloween. "

Mary H.K. Choi

I Am

" Twenty-thirteen was the year I got super into SoulCycle. "

" Wikipedia's a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in 'The Professor and the Madman,' which outlines James Murray's mission to produce the tome in the 19th century. "

" Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares. "

" I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it. "

" Never post boring back-to-back selfies. "

" I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter. "

" Do you know why we pay trainers and nutritionists? Because having to muster interest in the minor successes of someone else's journey toward pedestrian-ass healthiness is taxing and should be compensated. "

" Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you. "

" I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break. "

" I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person. "

" My brother's in comics. I work in media. "

" I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you. "

" I love small-business owners, and I actually love the idea of vintage clothing, but I don't get when they pretend that the Internet doesn't exist or that other customers have never been to the whole rest of the country where you can rummage around and buy the same dang belt for a buck and a half. "

" If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved. "

" Teens are strange and magical. "

" Yes, Justin Bieber is a contrivance. Yes, Justin Bieber's lyrics are insipid - worse still, disingenuous. Yes, his tattoos stink. Yes, he's lousy at skateboarding. But what does any of this actually matter? In case you missed it, Bieber won. "

" A fanboy's heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity. "

" There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice. "