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Passive Loot Games
I’ve been checking out Tom Clancy’s The Division for the past week or two[1]. It’s a third-person shooter, set in a post-virus-infected Manhattan, where the primary conflict is sleeper government agents versus extremely…
Effective Communication Requires Traffic Engineering
Solving communication with clever tooling is akin to buying into a get-rich-quick scheme. I’d like to think most of us recognize that good communication in itself is hard , but I do think a lot of us want…
Unraveling the Bi-Annual Phone Upgrade Cycle
We have broken away from switching out our phones every other year. It started with feature/dumb mobile phones back in the early 2000s. For whatever reason, American telecom companies went with a subsidy model for phone plans: give away…
A Fancy European Road Trip
My wife and I just got back from a week-long vacation in picturesque Scandinavia. To be honest, it was not one of the destinations either of us ever had on our list of places to list, especially during the…
The Decline of the Cantonese Language
I have a 2-year-old son. He’ll be a second-generation Chinese-American, who — unless our lives completely go sideways for the next two decades — will attend American schools and absorb American culture like any other kid around…
Image Attribution should be Easier
Some time ago, I decided to use Wordpress’s featured image feature. Pairing text with images has long been a blogging strategy, and my thought was that it’d break from the “wall of text” monotony that is typical of…
