Category: musings
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Review of The Dropout (2022): She’s just a lucky white girl
Why did this series make a profit-greedy woman a sympathetic character? My guess is, it’s because she’s white. Unsure why I’m now obssessed with startup disasters. Maybe it’s because I’m old enough to get over needing a lucky break. I’ve been reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams and it breaks my heart, as I think…
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The Replay circa 1998
I can’t quite remember the quote from Haruki Murakami’s South of the Border, West of the Sun, but I remember at the climax the character mused, “I was so sure that the place was so magical. But it was only Mexico.” And that was me with East Asian pop. I don’t usually talk about music…
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The AI Writing Workflow That Got Me “Hired”
Prologue:Me: Hey, DeepSeek, Can you pretend to interview me as someone who’s looking for a writer with AI? And be honest about if you’d hire me or not DeepSeek (DS): Absolutely! Let’s simulate an interview for a writer with AI expertise. I’ll play the role of a hiring manager looking for someone who can blend…
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Fuck Content
A pandemic and a career pivot later, in a time where everyone is curating content, I’m shooting straight. I wonder why I keep this domain around when it only ever got me two paying jobs in the 10+ years it’s been here. But alongside social media, now that we can easily summon bots to make…
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Currently: I’m learning to sail under a raincloud.
I learned some months ago that a corporate communications campaign I worked on bagged a gold and a silver medal at an industry awards show. With the nature of freelance corpo-comms, I can’t say who the client is on this platform. But what amazed me is that I left advertising in 2013 — and this…