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Taiwan began handing out sterile needles in 2005 and added methadone in 2006. New HIV diagnoses among people who inject drugs fell from about 2,400 in 2005 to 22 in 2021, with no sign of more heroin use. The needles worked as part of a package, and hepatitis C remains harder to stop.

In 1954 the independent Kao Yu-shu beat the Kuomintang's Wang Min-ning for mayor of Taipei; in 1964 he won again with a thousand student monitors holding flashlights over the ballot boxes. Then Taipei stopped electing its mayor. The city was never simply blue.

On 12 September 2026 I attended the APEX workshop on personal branding in the AI era. The website is only the most visible product. What I brought back is a way of working: understand the world a little more each day, record thoughts with little effort, and share them.