Under the Courier Helmets
This year, our family summer vacation took us to Guangzhou (GZ), my spouse's hometown and the manufacturing capital of the world. Compared to Shenzhen or Hong Kong, it's an older city; most of its growth in…
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The Last Two Pixels
I run dozens of bespoke little Mac apps: scratch notepads, screen resolution tuners, and even a mini-dashboard making use of that little bucktoothed notch atop MacBook screens. A simple but critical utility is an alternate app switcher—the default…
The Wobbly Tower of Financial Abstraction
As the kids get older, they are increasingly inquisitive about money. The curiosity reveals itself in their questions, which are usually naïve but occasionally insightful. Like: how do credit cards work? Or, why people choose to live where they do,…
The Myth of the Titleless Company
Engineering Director. Senior Engineer—wait, they're only two years out of school? Three-time CEO… of companies with no employees, hm. Vice President. Are we talking about a big tech company, a tiny startup, or a financial institution?…
Review: The Metaverse
I picked up The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything when it came out in 2022, though I haven't gotten around to reading it until now. The author, Matthew Ball, was a venture capitalist known for elaborately…
How to Write Words Good (with AI)
If you scroll to the bottom of each post on the site, you may notice a curious badge: It's a badge from the Not By AI group, a project that looks to explicitly tag creative content—writing, visual…
