Content Everything
Recently, I've attended a couple of in-person industry conferences—more than years past, finally peeking out from the shadow of COVID—and met some peers who complimented me on this blog. I'...
Thoughts
The Pattern of Technology
Almost a decade ago, the comms lead at Square wrote this piece on how the media builds up, and then tears down, its subjects like clockwork. At the time, we were—to use the horological analogy—at the metaphorical 11th hour, with the tech media questioning our business model and competencies as a payments processor,...
Asian Real Estate Attitudes
As a first-generation Asian-American immigrant, the duality of Eastern and Western culture is a part of everyday life. There are holidays and traditions on both sides that we end up celebrating; home-cooked meals that cater to multiple styles of cooking; plurality in spoken languages; subconscious biases and expectations of our roles from society. Granted, I&...
Asian-American Cinema
A couple of months back, we turned on the Oscar awards, I think for the first time in well over a decade, mostly to see how Everything Everywhere All at Once would fare that evening....
Review: Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly is a tech-focused author and writer, the first executive editor of Wired , and is known for being an optimistic and enthusiastic futurist. His latest book, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier , is a no-frills collection of short pieces of advice that he's gathered throughout his...
AI Engineering Validation
Product development around AI is accelerating. Just in March alone: OpenAI launched GPT-4; MidJourney upgraded its art generator to V5; Microsoft announced AI integrations into its Office 365 suite; Google formally launched its Bard AI into beta; Adobe launched its own AI-powered image generation and editing tooling. In some of these cases, it's...