Category: musings
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[Asian Food Network] How to be a better foodie
(Notes from 2026) I forgot that I wrote this article! The link to this has since disappeared, lost in the great archive of great data. My POV still applies even with the rise of foodtok and food as clout. Published 2017 in Asian Food Network In 2010, I was visiting the Philippine mountain town of…
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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…