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Cities by the Bay
I call three bayside cities home: Hong Kong, Vancouver, and San Francisco. They also happen to be three of the most expensive places in the world to live [1]. Housing prices in these three cities consistently outpace that of adjacent…
Star Trek's Future Now
Star Trek's Future Now The original Star Trek (TOS) TV series of the '60s was a bit before my time; I grew up with Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) reruns on Canadian broadcast TV in the…
Imparting Online Security onto the Next Generation
I just spent three weeks—mostly weekends, but also waiting days for email responses from customer support—trying to settle my son's Xbox account. All he wanted to do was play Minecraft on his desktop PC. But neither…
The Differentiation Premium
Recently, I've taken to watching a YouTube channel critiquing mansions. He goes over many of the flaws he finds in these ultra-luxury mansion tours in an entertaining and educational way: interior design mishaps, poorly-planned home layouts, architectural mediocrity,…
Cairn: Flow Within Constraint
Cairn is a game about climbing. It was released merely days after Skyscraper Live , a Netflix special also about climbing. I'm not a climber; the closest I've gotten was fumbling on gym walls back in high…
The Vision Pro, an Unintentional Trojan Horse for AR
We just passed the second anniversary of the Apple Vision Pro. At launch, it was—and is—an amazing piece of technology. I initially reacted with excitement to this new device category. But the Vision Pro also faced plenty of…
