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Welcome to my digital garden. Start here to understand how to navigate the garden or explore the guides on various topics I'm fascinated with. Latest View all posts Essays Long-form writing. >> View all Journal Jottings about my life. >> View all Notes Quick thoughts about stuff.
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Excited and exhausted: My honest take about life as a techwriter in the AI age
A few weeks ago, I admitted to my online tech writer friend Fabrizio of Passo.uno that I wrote a whiny journal entry about how overwhelmed I was about the amount of things I have to learn about AI. At the end of the conversation, I asked him to write a bl
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My article was No.1 on Hacker News
A couple of weeks ago, Fabrizio of Passo.uno dropped me a message on LinkedIn and told me that my article, "Substack writers, you need a website!", was No.2 on Hacker News. I thought he was pulling my leg. I checked Hacker News and indeed it was true: My
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How to Build Your Own AI Writing Pipeline (No Paid Tools)
Reblogging this because it's fascinating to see how this can be done. I probably personally won't use it for my own personal workflows, as I prefer to be present during the formation of the draft, but I'm thinking of creating a system where, once I comple
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Being a minority on social media sucks sometimes
A few years ago, a Malaysian friend told me during the Twitter meltdown that she's carefully cultivated a Malaysian safe bubble for herself on Twitter and she's leery of losing that. Back then, I wasn't very active on social media; I hung out mostly to dr
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Pangram in Substack? I'm so excited for the AI witch hunts
So Substack just dropped an unwanted feature on us: "Going forward, you'll be able to scan text to see how much of it was likely written by hand or with AI assistance," says Chris Best in Against Claudefishing. Well thanks, Chris. Didn't realise I needed
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On the matter of Greek erasure in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
Let's get to the point. These are the reasons why I was irritated by Chris Nolan's Odyssey: It's a cheap attempt at diversity. Hollywood has been giving me the impression that it's not confident stories from other cultures would be "safe" (i.e., sell). So
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July 2026: Lestat, OpenCode and the art of resting
I'm currently towards the tail end of my leave after a medical procedure. I cannot believe time has flown so quickly. When I first got the leave chit, I thought to myself: So many weeks! What in the world am I going do during this time? But now at week fo
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The Last Generation of 'Bananas'? How Malaysian Chinese Identity Is Transforming
The English-educated Chinese in Malaysia are dying out, and that could be a good thing. I am what many Malaysians would call a banana: Chinese, but more proficient in English. To others, I'm not "banana" enough, because by some freak of geography and luck
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The key to my successful weekly planning system: Time blocking with Google Calendar and Google Tasks
I depend on this daily/weekly routine to be as productive as I can be. This is an update from a previous workflow which used Trello. Now, I use Google Tasks in tandem with Gmail and Google Calendar. Tools I Use Google Calendar Gmail Google Chat Google Tas
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Substack writers, you need a website!
"But I already have a website on Substack," you argue. No, no, Substack is just a distribution tool to amplify your website. It should not be your digital home. In the last few years, I've noticed a pattern of writers leaving their websites to make Substa
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