The Firehose Feed
This is a chronological feed of everything I’ve published.
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On 26 November 2025, a deadly fire broke out at the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in Tai Po, Hong Kong. My thoughts and links to various articles, social media posts from China, and videos about this tragedy.
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A simple, straightforward Users’ Guide to Obsidian community plug-in Notebook Navigator.
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Whether AI makes you more productive really depends on whether you know what the heck you’re doing.
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In Asia, the real conversations and developments around AI are focused on practical applications for industry. They are quiet, hardly talked about and are not trendy.
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We Malaysians have learned over the last few painful decades: you need to be united as a people to effect any effective change in your country.
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As the movie Dead to Rights (Nanjing Photo Studio)《南京照相馆》gains attention in China and globally, some critics wonder: Why bring it up now?
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A guide to how I’m writing fiction with AI. It lists all my reflections, essays and more about this experiment.
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Writing fiction with AI – most people think it’s letting AI generate the text, slapping it together into an e-book and publishing it. In this article I will show you that this is far from the truth, at least for me.
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When you look at your social media and blog feeds, ask yourself: Does it spark joy? In this post I discuss my plan to aggressively implement digital minimalism to my blog and newsletter feeds. As much as I want to support all the writers I see online, I have to concede that my bluetooth-sized brain…
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The experiment illuminated what gave me joy … and what didn’t.
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My quest for more nuanced discussions about the use of AI in fiction writing.
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La Cocina is the place to be to enjoy good Spanish food with a view a sunset panoramic view of Subang Jaya. I meet owner and head chef Jeganathan Letchumanan and his wife, Zarmila Muniandy, to learn about how their restaurant came to be, and the yummy food one can enjoy at their scenic restaurant.
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The way you use AI to write essays could change your brain. Simply put: It could make you more stupid.
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So, there’s a name for the phenomenon I hate so much: Loud casting. “So how do we react when we experience others listening to their phones and other devices in public? About half of people maintain a British stiff upper lip and do nothing. The most common reaction for those who take action (cited by…
Elizabeth Tai 