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Signal is losing
privacy

Signal is losing

Signal is losing the network effect battle in Hong Kong.

2021-11-07 •3 min read
Asia's World City needs open borders
Coronavirus

Asia's World City needs open borders

A path to vaccination and travel for Hong Kong.

2021-05-27 •4 min read
Earnings for Charity from Wearafuckingmask.com
campaign

Earnings for Charity from Wearafuckingmask.com

With your support, we sold $2,205.01 of wearafuckingmask.com t-shirts and earned $529.47 in commissions and donated HK$5,000 to charity!

2021-02-22 •2 min read
Goodbye USA
freedom

Goodbye USA

The story of how I left America.

2020-11-02 •13 min read
Stacking & PoX: Economically anchoring the STX ecosystem in Bitcoin
stacks

Stacking & PoX: Economically anchoring the STX ecosystem in Bitcoin

Blockstack's Stack 2.0 chain is not only cryptographically anchored in Bitcoin, but also economically anchored in Bitcoin.

2020-10-06 •2 min read
Getting around Trump’s Tiktok & Wechat Bans
technology

Getting around Trump’s Tiktok & Wechat Bans

How US users might get around Trump's Tiktok and Wechat bans.

2020-09-20 •3 min read
On Blockstack Governance & the Stacks Foundation
stacks

On Blockstack Governance & the Stacks Foundation

Thoughts on governance in decentralized ecosystems and the newly created Stacks Foundation.

2020-06-08 •4 min read
It wasn't WHO, it was you!
Coronavirus

It wasn't WHO, it was you!

Stop blaming WHO! Countries had plenty of time do something about the novel Coronavirus. A timeline of events from my vantage point in Hong Kong.

2020-04-26 •12 min read
The digital nomad is dead
lifestyle

The digital nomad is dead

Covid-19 killed the digital nomad. Learn from their mistakes so you can plan for a sustainable remote work future.

2020-04-25 •3 min read
Masks Mission Accomplished!
Coronavirus

Masks Mission Accomplished!

Masks are mainstream. The authorities have admitted they were wrong. We won the Battle of the Masks.

2020-04-16 •3 min read
We aren’t ready to own our own data...yet
technology

We aren’t ready to own our own data...yet

We talk a lot about users owning their own data. Data ownership means control. Having control means taking responsibility. Responsibility is a lot of work! Let me explain… For the

2020-03-10 •2 min read
lifestyle

Not in my backyard: a tool for living beyond your means

Not-in-my-backyard-ism functions as a tool for financial leverage and taking what one can't afford.

2019-10-30 •2 min read
technology

The death of Jabber

Why federated chat protocol XMPP died and lessons for today's decentralization movement

2019-08-09 •4 min read
china

Buying tea with WeChat Pay in a dystopian future

China's WeChat Pay gives us a glimpse of a dystopian future where your money isn't yours.

2019-07-25 •6 min read
blog

Names on plane tickets are for profit, not safety

Names on airline tickets help them make more money, not keep you safe.

2019-07-24 •2 min read
blog

Viral growth doesn’t mean writing viruses

The software we write is a guest on our users' computers. It should behave like one.

2019-07-10 •1 min read
blog

Opting out of face scanning at Hong Kong International Airport

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2019-07-08 •3 min read
blog

Success by removing temptation

How I arranged my life so that healthiness is the path of least resistance.

2019-06-19 •2 min read
blog

Building your business on digital quicksand

Domain name expiration and business

2019-06-10 •1 min read
Bringing decentralized identity to traditional apps
identity

Bringing decentralized identity to traditional apps

TL;DR: In this technical post for developers, I walk through how we added Blockstack ID support to the Discourse forum software. At Blockstack [https://blockstack.org], we're building a

2018-09-14 •6 min read
Product/Market Fit in Crypto Token Projects
blockchain

Product/Market Fit in Crypto Token Projects

Product/Market fit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product/market_fit] is the degree to which a product satisfies a strong market demand. Before product/market fit is like playing

2018-08-20 •5 min read
A Guide to Slack Identity Theft
identity

A Guide to Slack Identity Theft

TL;DR: Slack removed usernames enabling easy theft of other users' identities. Read on to learn how... Around the world teams everywhere spend their days (and too often nights) glued

2018-02-15 •9 min read
How I built an Ethereum wallet on Bitcoin with 3 lines of code
stacks

How I built an Ethereum wallet on Bitcoin with 3 lines of code

This post is a companion to a talk I did at the Ethereum Classic Summit in Hong Kong [https://youtu.be/mpW1EEfbpR0?t=41m17s] on November 13, 2017. Cryptocurrency and

2017-11-14 •3 min read
Proof of Humanity: a Deep Dive into the Blockstack Token Sale Registration App
stacks

Proof of Humanity: a Deep Dive into the Blockstack Token Sale Registration App

TL;DR: The Blockstack Token Sale Voucher Registration App [https://blockstack.com] uses decentralized Blockstack IDs and social media account proofs to make sure registrants are real humans. Read on

2017-11-10 •19 min read
Swimming with a System
productivity

Swimming with a System

> "goals are for losers." -Scott Adams I became familiar with Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams during the past year's Presidential election - familiar with him outside of his signature on Dilbert

2017-01-16 •3 min read
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