I miss writing. That’s a strange thing to say because I’ve been employed as a full-time writer for the past 14 months. And I have spent many weekends to catch up on some articles. So technically, writing is all I’ve been doing with my brain’s depleting productive quota. But it’s been a while since I…
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I’ve been down a rabbit hole for the past few months, obsessed with a single question: “What makes a writing human?” It started, ironically, because I was trying to automate my reading list. I’m a tinkerer. So naturally, I wrote a bunch of Python scripts to feed podcast transcripts and long-form essays into LLMs. The…
lately I’ve been watching a lot of videos on YouTube about China. it’s partly due to all the chaos around Trump’s tariff, but mostly these are videos done by expats sharing about their life in China. from the technology, the culture, the speed of development there. then I got into the economy topic, binge watching…
What is reality? It might seem like a straightforward question, but Ursula Franklin, a pioneering thinker in technology and society, saw it as layered and complex. In her book The Real World of Technology, she outlined four types of reality that shape human experience. These realities—vernacular, extended, constructed, and projected—define how we interact with the…
I’ve been wanting to reflect of the past 2 years and 2 months I spent not working, but it never felt urgent or important (to anyone else) so I kept postponing it. But today is merely the third day I’m officially back employed and I still have 3.25 hours before a meeting, so I decide…
I was listening to this interview of Iain McGilchrist. He was explaining how the mechanistic metaphors that we often use in our daily lives could be more harmful than they are helpful. When we think of our bodies in terms of machines, it will consequently trickle down to our reductionistic approach in problem solving. We’re…
Story 1: Who plans better? You or LLM? I was watching this interview on Machine Learning Street Talk where Prof Subbarao Kambhapati argued that LLMs don’t have reasoning capability and therefore can’t generate a stylistically correct, reasonable, and executable plan. He shared an example of planning a trip to Vienna from India (transcript slightly rearranged…
I’m having a little celebration moment right now for my information detective skill. Allow me to share it with you. Earlier this week I saw a story of one of my IG acquaintances. it was a picture of a page shown on Kindle (see the passage at the end of this post). it looked interesting…
I needed to collect all the lessons and tactics from 122 YouTube videos on business storytelling. And I need them fast. Why though? Am I learning storytelling? Well, yes and no. Let me explain. Origin story I’m convinced that storytelling is the closest technology that we have for idea transfer. Growing up socially awkward, I…
From Every Great Story Has 3 Central Questions – Jeffrey Alan Schechter: A central question is the main query that defines the plot of a story. It’s a question that, once answered, marks the end of the story. A central question consists of professional, personal, and private aspects. The professional component deals with external goals…