A personal reflection after nearly a year of hands-on agentic development A few days ago, I caught up with Terence, my former co-founder from our startup days in Beijing. When...
Tokenized assets can improve today’s financial infrastructure. Their greater potential lies in enabling programmable markets, atomic transactions and entirely new financial products. Much of today’s discussion about blockchain in traditional...
Trump mentioned Hyperliquid in one sentence. That sentence may have revealed something important about the future of US financial infrastructure. During a recent White House meeting with financial and crypto...
What the SEC’s proposed crypto framework could teach Hong Kong about early-stage capital formation On August 18, the US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed an important new capital-formation framework for...
I have always been a fan of Meta AI—or Facebook AI Research, as many of us still remember it—and particularly of Yann LeCun’s work. That admiration is not based only...
Some Anthropic investors reportedly believe the company could go public at a valuation of $2 trillion or more. This is not an official target from Anthropic, but it would make...
Five years ago, I defined the metaverse as “Digital Life + Physical World.” AI agents, digital humans, and synthetic media are making that convergence more likely—and much more complicated. Almost...
When a small open-weight model performs surprisingly well, one explanation tends to dominate the conversation: it must have distilled a larger U.S. frontier model. Knowledge distillation—training a smaller “student” model...
The United States can ban an AI service. https://decrypt.co/374282/nvidia-meta-microsoft-washington-dont-kill-open-source-ai It can remove an app from government devices, prohibit federal agencies from using it, restrict American cloud providers from hosting it,...
AI is a supply-side technology. The developed world’s problem is demand. That mismatch — not the technology — is the whole story. I’m not down on AI — I think...
Every so often a policy comes along that is easy to dismiss because of who signed it, and in doing so you miss something genuinely important. Trump Accounts are that...
A two-part essay on the deep reasons coding is uniquely suited to AI agents, and why developers shouldn’t expect their compensation to scale linearly with their new superpowers. Part 1:...
The brutal mismatch between how fast you think and how fast you can do anything about it In 1999, Bill Gates published Business @ the Speed of Thought. The premise was...
Think about the device you’re reading this on. Somewhere inside it, there’s a hard drive (or SSD) quietly holding terabytes of data — photos from five years ago, half-finished documents,...
There are now more software developers on Earth than nurses and doctors combined. That fact alone should give us pause—not because it’s necessarily wrong, but because it forces us to...
You just walked out of an hour-long meeting. Someone asks, “Can you send me the action items?” You stare at your half-legible notes and feel that familiar sinking feeling. There’s...
While the Western AI coding market gets all the attention, China has quietly built a parallel ecosystem of coding agents that rival — and in some cases undercut — their...
The AI coding agent market has fragmented into terminal CLIs, AI-native IDEs, open-source extensions, and cloud-hosted engines. I ranked the ten most relevant ones so you can stop evaluating and...
Claude Code’s plugin and skills ecosystem has exploded. There are now dozens of framework repos promising to turn your terminal agent into a disciplined engineering team. I reviewed nine of...
Three days ago, Cheng Lou quietly dropped a library called Pretext. By “quietly” I mean the internet immediately caught fire. Here’s why, and what happened when I actually used it. The...
The reason is simple: because you can — and even faster now. If you have an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) with 16GB of RAM or more, you can run powerful LLMs...
Google needed this deal far more than Apple. By embedding Gemini into 1.5 billion iPhones, Google secured its relevance as traditional search faces obsolescence in the AI era.
Introduction Video downloading on macOS can be frustrating. iTubeGo requires clicking through dialogs; other tools are bloated or unreliable. But what if you could simply right-click on any URL and...
Unlock 2-3x faster AI on Apple Silicon! This post explores optimizing models with Ollama and MLX, boosting performance for demanding applications.
Finally got around to fixing my old PC desktop. Knew about the problem for a while, but was too lazy to get around to fixing it. But sorted it out...
Humans excel at inventing games, often brilliantly designed, yet hilariously difficult to master! This post explores why we're so drawn to conquering seemingly impossible challenges.
TikTok's US strategy, focusing on localized content and partnerships, isn't universally replicable. Its success hinges on specific cultural nuances and market conditions, making it a unique model.
HashKey's IPO highlights Hong Kong's crypto ambitions, yet showcases limitations. The listing reveals regulatory hurdles and a cautious approach to fostering a thriving digital asset ecosystem.
In July 2025, the United States passed three landmark pieces of legislation that together attempt to define the future of digital finance: the GENIUS Act, the CLARITY Act, adn the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State...
I am not a financial management expert and I generally don’t write about this topic, but I’ve learned valuable lessons on my journey towards financial freedom. Here are some insights...
