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11 October 2026 · 6 minutes

Who closes the loop?

Every few months, we rename what software engineers do with AI. In two years we’ve gone from context engineering to harness engineering to loop engineering. The buzzwords come and go, but they…

6 June 2023 · 9 minutes

Apple Vision Pro: the MVP for AR

Since the original decade-old concept video for the ill-fated Google Glass, there has been a clear line in the sand for the holy grail of augmented reality perfection. Many headsets have tried…

24 August 2020 · 11 minutes

Learnings From Remote Work

We look at some of the major challenges facing companies in transitioning to remote work.

6 May 2019 · 3 minutes

Three things that brought me to America

My name is Raven and I grew up in Singapore. I’ve been living in the Bay Area for the past 8 years and it has become a second home to me. I’ve…

12 November 2017 · 13 minutes

Ethereum Devcon3 — an outsider’s perspective

A week ago, I found myself in Cancún, Mexico for the first time in my life. As a lifelong professional geek whose associates could very well have been the original inspiration for…

19 August 2017 · 1 minute

Gratuitous Cryptocurrency Animations

Over the past few months, we have been experience great exuberance in the cryptocurrency market. The adoption of Ethereum smart contracts gave us the power to launch our own blockchain-backed totally-not-security (wink)…

5 April 2017 · 9 minutes

How Bank of America gave away my money

TLDR: Bank of America is a horrible business and it should be ashamed by how bad it is. Two weeks ago, I suddenly received emails informing me that my Bank of America…

9 November 2016 · 5 minutes

Trump and Brexit: Revenge of the Anti-Globalists

Looking at the key states that lost Clinton the election, we find traditional Democratic strongholds like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — states that no polls expected Trump to win. In one narrative, we find…

2 October 2016 · 5 minutes

Non-obvious innovation

The moment when you can now take an online class on building self-driving cars from a for-profit education platform is probably the moment where we have officially gone from a world where…

25 July 2016 · 2 minutes

Totems

I watched “The Butterfly Effect” with my housemates yesterday. From a conventional perspective, it was one of the most poorly written movies I’ve ever watched. For a movie that was made in…

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