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This Question Took Me Flying into the Future (Maybe)

This article was completed before SpaceX released its Q3 2026 earnings report.

2026

  1. …I Just Can’t Bear to Make It Work Overtime
  2. I Respect Your Agency, but What Exactly Are You Doing? 🌚
  3. What Do I Want from AI?
  4. After Waking, I Still Look Inside the Window
  5. Liking It Is One Thing; Finding It Useful Is Another
  6. If I Blame You Unfairly, Push Back
  7. City at Play 003 | Let’s Play with a “Scratch-Off” in the Square~
  8. How Are People Shaped?
  9. So, What Have You Been Up To Lately?
  10. Turns Out: I Didn't Know You Could Do That
  11. I Dreamed of a Mountain with Many Paths
  12. Can Schools Keep Learning After Their Students Graduate?
  13. City at Play 002 | Swings + People = a Swing Band?
  14. City at Play 001 | What If the City Gave You a Little Permission to Play?
  15. Can Space Become an Entry Point into a Podcast?
  16. Why Do Stumbles Feel Less Jarring When Audio Comes with Visuals?
  17. My Blog Finally Looks More Like the Way I Like It~
  18. What If AI-Generated Images Could Still Be Edited?
  19. Can Caring Too Much Make You Lose Something?
  20. Information Should Not Only Flow to Me. It Should Flow Through Me.
  21. Be Careful of the Moments When Information Never Feels Like Enough
  22. ‘The People Who Create the Future Will Never Be People Like Me’
  23. You Can't Even Find That? Free Grok Is Better
  24. How to Give a Product a Sense of Life
  25. The “Bad Boy” Product Pattern: Replacing Real Alignment with a Feeling of Relationship
  26. How Can We See More Clearly What Machines Are Doing?
  27. Why Did ChatGPT's Thumbs-Up and Thumbs-Down Buttons Disappear?
  28. The Disappearing ‘Person’
  29. Humans Can't Escape the ‘Curse’ of Their Environment. Neither Can AI.
  30. The Exoskeletons We Need Are Yoga Pants
  31. Product Managers Will Not Disappear
  32. For the Next Two Years: Build Worlds for Agents
  33. High Intelligence Is at Odds with Natural Selection
  34. AI, Gender Bias, and Resume Screening
  35. After Adding AI to a Product, Has Its Architecture Really Changed?
  36. Podcast Notes: AI, Philosophy, Products, Robots, and World Models
  37. Why I Call Myself Pansexual Rather Than Lesbian
  38. People Are Really Good at Gaslighting Themselves
  39. Maybe Musk Isn't a Purebred Human?
  40. Wrong Information Has Value Too
  41. A Second Brain, and Capturing Intent
  42. An Incomplete Idea of Dating Products in the AI Era
  43. Data, Memory, Context, and Other Things
  44. Speaking Out the Self That Is Still Happening
  45. How Are We Drawn to a Space?
  46. Do People Really Need to Be Explained?
  47. I Used AI to Analyze Nine Years of My WeChat Writing
  48. Most Onboarding Design Is Not Good Enough
  49. Context Flow: Turbulence? A River?
  50. What If Editing Had a Shadow?
  51. Trying to Build a Podcast Agent (a Personal Experiment)
  52. Reordering Decision Quality Is More Practical Than Calling for Anti-Consumerism
  53. My Open-Source Extension Is Finally on the Google Chrome Store
  54. I Just Realized I Knew Nothing About Parkinson's
  55. I Used AI to Make Myself a Voice-Recognition Tool
  56. 21 Days: From My First Shipped Tool to Building My Personal Website
  57. I Kept Walking and Slowly Arrived Here
  58. My First Open-Source Product (an Extension!)
  59. I Built Myself an “Intelligence” Station on New Year's Day
  60. The Extension I Made Completely Confused Me (lol)

2025

  1. I Made Two AI Tools Recently. Come Try Them!
  2. I Built Myself a PM Career Translator for a Career Change 👀
  3. I Built a Brutally Honest AI VC
  4. Truly Learning by Doing
  5. Why Doesn’t Switching App Store Regions Always Work?
  6. Spotify for Reading
  7. Can Sound Be Drawn?
  8. AI Is Repeating the Path Social Media Took Ten Years Ago
  9. A Builder's Perfectionism Can Also Keep Users Around
  10. Why Did Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Remove the Screen?
  11. Somewhere Along the Way, I Started Building Products for Chinese Classes
  12. What Will the Operating System of the Future Look Like?
  13. New Ways to Find Information from Podcasts in the AI Era
  14. Wenhai Xinchao and AI Chip Design
  15. Why Are Stories More Important Than Products?
  16. Language and Expression, and How Readers Feel
  17. Podcast Content, AI, and Creator Sovereignty
  18. An Episode Every B2B Founder Needs to Hear
  19. Making Content and Lowering the Barrier for Readers
  20. Menstrual Pain, Women’s Health, and Entrepreneurship
  21. How Is the Paideia of China's Tech Elite Different from Silicon Valley's?
  22. I Find Making Content in Venture Capital Really Interesting 🤔
  23. How Do You Make “Results” Visible Before You Have Them?
  24. People Actually Forget Their Friends’ Birthdays??!
  25. Why Are Some People Reluctant to Take Medicine When They Get Sick?
  26. AI Gave Me a Kind of Emotional Support That Helps Me Generate My Own
  27. Keep Taking Photos, and Then What?
  28. Yuri, an AI, Cured My “Real-Person” Filter
  29. Every Time I Leave, I Recognize a Little More of Myself
  30. I Had a Blue-Toned Dream by the Sea
  31. I Found My Favorite Dessert Shop Ever in Seoul (& a Coffee Shop) 🧡
  32. Boys' Love, Reality, and Our Own Bubbles
  33. I Wanted Ice Cream but Walked Into the Wrong Shop...

2024

2023

2017

  1. I Am a Bird That Follows Neither the Seasons nor the Wind
  2. Actually, I’d Rather Listen, or Talk About Not Marrying

What’s here is… the stuff I’d really want to go back and stop her from hitting the publish button on. But I can’t go back, so I’m keeping it for her for now 👻 Maybe she could run into the present and tell me off, but the her of today is backing me on this! 😈

2016

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