The Firehose Feed
This is a chronological feed of everything I’ve published.
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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…
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Here’s a small start to start blogging about my community. First, I start with cafes offering yummy food: Here’s a sandwich cafe called iTOR.
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The pushback I received made me think about a way to re-clarify my message about digital gardens. The last thing I want people to think is that one is better than the other. I rather communicate the freedom digital gardening has given me, and how I’ve written so much more since taking this approach to…
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Digital gardens are a different way to present yourself on the Internet. Blogging is often see as a way to “brand yourself”. Digital gardens are less interested in marketing a personality but in sharing knowledge.
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To solve productivity problems, we tend to think that an app or a software can help us solve the problem. What we need to do to solve our productivity conundrums is to have clarity about our productivity problems and finding then finding tools that will solve it. In this post I show how I solved…
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A collection of fun posts about various stuff I found on the Internet. Some tech, some birbs, nerdy PKM Obsidian shares, and a dash of weirdo stuff. I always aim to make you smile, and promise not to share stuff about politics. There’s enough of that goin’ around!
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For years, I was fortunate enough to watch sunbird couples hatch their chicks right at my balcony. They’ve returned this year.
Elizabeth Tai 