I’ve largely lost track of the Chinese tech industry in the years since my brief stint in it – I hardly check my WeChat these days. But somehow, I watch way more Chinese movies than I did living in China. In the time since I left, the number of movie theaters in China has actuall … | Continue reading
Since the implosion of web3, the raising of interest rates, and layoffs in FANGs, the tech world has been searching for a new bright spot and has, for now, seized on generative AI. AI hype -— ever since the coining of the phrase in the 1950’s -— has always of a very unmoored, fan … | Continue reading
As with many, the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 made me dispense with a lot of rules I had set for myself, like shaving, exercising, and straying away from vices like drinking. Even the three meals in a day seemed insufficient when confined inside for weeks on end; I simply couldn’t … | Continue reading
TRANSLATIONS: 中文 (36氪) | 中文 (虎嗅) At the end of 2014, I wrote about the trends I noticed in UI design in apps in China. It was a surprising hit, receiving hundreds of thousands unique views the following week, and multiple translations into Chinese as well as Russian and Korean. I … | Continue reading
TRANSLATIONS: 中文 (UI.cn) | 中文 (CSDN) | 한국어 | ру́сский язы́к This summer, I packed up all my things and moved from San Francisco to Guangzhou, China for work. Through an unlikely chain of coincidences that I don’t entirely recall, I’ve become a product manager on WeChat, a popular … | Continue reading
A friend of mine and I made a mashup over the weekend. It shows median incomes along different mass transit routes in the Bay Area (BART, MUNI, CalTrain). Check it out! UPDATE: Got some play on the New York Times' Bits Blog, KQED, Metafilter, and MUNI Diaries. | Continue reading
Apple's Valentines Day promos show Etude running on a white iPad 2! It's also linked prominently on the iPad site under "From the App Store." (via benglert) | Continue reading
I'm happy to announce that my iPad music learning startup Etude has been acquired by Steinway & Sons. When they approached me about the idea of working together, it seemed like an odd idea. What would a piano company in New York want with an iPad app? It's not the usual acquisiti … | Continue reading