Welcome to the Year 2036
2022 has witnessed what's been a tectonic wave of progress in generative AI - DALL-E 2, ChatGPT, Midjourney,Lex to name a few. AI is on track to be one of the most hyped technologies that, well, lives up to the hype.
The Case for Ambiguity
I don’t want to grow too attached to this addictive thrill of finding resolution through pruned essays and words. One of the greatest distortions of the Internet, like writing, is that our beliefs over time are flattened into something overly consistent for the purpose of fulfilling an argument or identity, which then strips us of the context we get when we're alive and interacting with a more dynamic, ever-changing physical world.
April Dispatch
Oh hi, it's me. Just sending a virtually distanced greeting your way.
Why Organizing is an Exercise in Real Ground-Changing Hope
At a time when our system seems to be spinning out of control, it's easy to forget that in every moment we have a choice.
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My Favorite Little Piece of Italy in NYC
I can be unreasonably sentimental about certain things. The Lower East Side and El Barrio, for instance (i.e. the real New York). The NYC subway (even when its latest track record doesn’t warrant it). Hole-in-the walls. Gaia is another prized possession in this category, a small Italian cafe in the Lower East Side named after the force behind…
Escape the Echo Chamber
The social media echo chamber is reverberating with astonishment at how a nation of free, seemingly well-meaning people could vote someone like Donald Trump into office. What happened on November 8 is one thing. More concerning is how we missed all the signals leading up to it: a preponderance of fake pro-Trump anti-Clinton stories, a 300K…
Simple Civility
Two weeks ago, I checked a major item off my life bucket list: running the New York City Marathon. Words can’t quite capture the experience of running through the streets of New York City with 50,000+ other runners. What I can say is that running through the five boroughs — from the mass exodus in Staten Island…
2016: Presence > Presents
My favorite marketing campaign over the holidays was Sweetgreen’s clever play on presents. Beyond the benefit to Sweetgreen’s bottom line, there’s immense value in the social capital this taps into: an age-old desire to break bread with others. This got me thinking, now that the ‘season of giving’ is over, what if we continue to give simply…
Mumbai Dispatch
In late November, I was blessed with the opportunity to go on a week-long mission trip to Mumbai. The trip was part of Redeemer Presbyterian’s short-term missions program, which coordinates dozens of trips each year to assist and serve international nonprofits and NGOs in various capacities. Thanks to the generous support of family and friends who contributed…
I’m running the NYC Half Marathon
…in less than 2 weeks! I’ll be carrying some winter pudge; nonetheless, I’m excited and honored to be running on behalf a charity team close to my heart, Apex for Youth (Apex). Apex is a mentoring organization for underserved Asian American youth that I’ve been involved with for 3 years as a middle school mentor. My mentee Melanie…
The Social Files 