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…
"The world is moving faster than ever…", and all of its paraphrased clichés, have become a personal pet peeve. It shows up in business articles, podcasts, and plenty of advertising, to trigger a sense of anxiety and uncertainty…
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
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…
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…
We have become very good at measuring things; it's unclear how that affects our ability to make decisions.
Take the Lucid Gravity. It's a new car, with a software interface evolved from their first vehicle—the…