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  • My next (four) projects

    My next (four) big projects I recently spent the Chinese New Year in the homeland, visiting 5 different cities over 3 weeks and visiting both sides of my family. Chongqing → Zunyi → Harbin → Zhengzhou → Wuxi. Chongqing was a futuristic, cyberpunk, disorientating, bright city built on the mountains that was a war capital… Continue reading

  • A Full Year of Blogging

    A Full Year of Blogging

    Oh. My. God. It has been one year of blogging. I have written a daily blog post 365 times. Whether you started reading my posts from day one, or this is your first time reading my writing, I thank you for being a part of my journey. It’s been a wild year. I’ve always considered… Continue reading

  • I like to look at people’s faces

    I like to look at people’s faces

    Daily Blog 356 I like to look at people’s faces. And I know that sounds extremely creepy, but please let me explain myself before you come to an immediate conclusion. There is this… void, that I often feel in my own life. How many times are we going to ask ourselves this question: “What is… Continue reading

  • Grow up

    Grow up

    I think the worst thing you can say to a kid is “grow up” It implies that the creativity they have as a “kid” is not important. It implies that they need to concern themselves with “matters of consequence” like money, and jobs, and numbers. When in fact, the most important thing is to see… Continue reading

  • How to choose a career you want with incentives

    How to choose a career you want with incentives

    There are 5 types of incentives in life (3 according to the book Freakonomics), powered by 5 different types of “minds” in your head. Economical Moral Social Personal Logical Your economical mind wants you to become an investment banker. He wants you to make as much money as you can and get rich. Your moral-self… Continue reading

  • Interactions in Taipei

    Interactions in Taipei

    “And you work both stalls by yourself? “Yes. 10 hours every day” “Wow.” “Are You Japanese?” “No. But we speak a little for Japanese tourists.”   “It’s so cold out! Are you okay?” Was the first thing the female taxi driver said when I got into the passenger seat   we stopped a car to… Continue reading