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What a Visual Map of Malcolm Gladwell’s Structure Taught Me
A 2023 AI-assisted close-reading experiment turned narrative sequence into a visual map—and revealed where data helps, where judgment begins, and what writers can learn without copying a voice.
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The Blockchain AI Prototype That Taught Me to Distrust Plausible Code
A 2023 experiment with decentralized AI and blockchain became a practical lesson: a coherent concept, plausible code and a working system are three different things.
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What 12 Years of Long Distance Taught Us About Building a Shared Life
My wife and I spent twelve years engaged between Southern California and Taiwan. What sustained us was not constant romance, but a shared ordinary life.
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Tech Demos Sold the Future Before Games Could Deliver It
From Valley of Ra and Dawn to Unity’s Enemies, GPU tech demos show how to make invisible capabilities visible, memorable, and honestly demonstrated.
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How to Build a Tech Demo Gamers Can Trust
A modern tech demo should create wonder and leave enough evidence for gamers to understand, test and trust what the technology actually changes.
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The One-Time Coupon: A Boundary for Working With Friends and Family
The one-time coupon turns a professional favor into one thoughtful, clearly defined deliverable—protecting both the work and the relationship.
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Why I Started This Blog Before I Knew What It Would Become
I started this blog to catch ideas before they disappeared—and to learn how memory, experience and educated guesses could become useful to someone else.
