Author: Elizabeth Tai
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The Writing Community’s AI Panic
A New York Times article about Coral Hart, an indie romance author that generates 200 novels using AI has gotten most of the writing community clutching their pearls. Me? I’m just tired of this cycle of unproductive outrage.
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Linkblog Feb 26, 2026: The Chinese issue
China’s attitudes towards AI, and how China, Chinese culture continues to fascinate.
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Matt Chung: Building communities – one post at a time
How can communities come together in an age where media is dying, and the one that exists is shifting away from local news? How do we get messages out community when platforms’ “pay to play” business models are making it harder to communicate? Matt Chung is someone that has inspired me with his determination to…
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Sometimes things disappear and reappear mysteriously in my life … and I’m kinda freaked out by it
Today, an object mysteriously reappears in my bag weeks after I lost it, far from the original place I lost it. I have zero explanation for this. Even more that this is the THIRD time I’ve experienced this.
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Is it me, or is it just more difficult to find good fiction these days?
This may seem like a clickbait title, but I really wonder if this is a trend because I saw a book blogger ranting that she’s fed up with books being released today and she’s going back to read classic fiction and finding more satisfaction there. It’s kinda me too. 🤔 Currently, I am reading (extremely…
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Hong Kong Wang Fuk Court Fire: Thoughts & links
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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How to use Notebook Navigator (Obsidian Community plug-in)
A simple, straightforward Users’ Guide to Obsidian community plug-in Notebook Navigator.
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Does AI help you work faster or is it just hype?
Whether AI makes you more productive really depends on whether you know what the heck you’re doing.
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Conversations about AI are different in Asia
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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After Charlie Kirk: Reflections from Malaysia
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.
Elizabeth Tai 