entrepreneurship
In the past few years movements like "lean startup," the "four hour work week" and "start up weekend" have gain a lot of popularity. The gospel they preach? Building a business should be quick...a sprint and not a marathon. If you haven'
blog
Offices are expensive and no one really likes to go to them. When we had an office at Pay4Bugs, I found myself going anywhere but the office when I needed to get serious work done. Other members of our team felt the same way. Peoples' lives aren't
internet
In Hong Kong, we face a unique set of problems. Space is at a premium and our Internet connections are so fast that consumer routers made for mere mortals are too slow for us Hongkongers. The misleadingly named home "gigabit routers" rarely have the processing power to perform
immigrants
There seems to be a mini epidemic of Taiwanese having kids in English speaking countries, finding difficultly teaching their kids Chinese and creating Kickstarters to solve the problem. First was my Wesleyan classmate Cindy's Joy Learning Club, a fun family field trip program conducted in Mandarin around New
networking
Dear Silicon Valley, Read it and weep: Love, Hong Kong 1000 megabits for less than US$30 a month Dorothy, you're not in Kansas anymore. Hong Kong: We do IT faster.
blog
We humans are horrible at judging relative risk. I've found fear, risk and our inability to judge it interesting ever since the days after 9/11. People…and the country…did crazy things in reaction to a threat whose statistical chance of death or injury was infinitesimal. The
bitcoin
Many Pay4Bugs testers have asked us to offer an alternative to PayPal. Our testers would rather be earning money finding problems in Pay4Bugs customer projects before those bugs result in our customers losing revenue and harming their brand image, than wasting time dealing with cross-border PayPal payment issues. We know
blog
Privacy and ad-supported services don't go together. Former Sun Microsystems CEO and fellow Wesleyan alum, Jonathan Schwartz, writes that companies such as Facebook that earn their living by selling users' private information to marketers are much the same as stalkers. Users are acting irrationally, he writes, in
blog
"Just fucking do it!" New York Islanders owner and tech entrepreneur Charles Wang told a couple of wild-eyed kids who were trying to raise seed capital to fund their start up idea. I was one of those kids. Best business advice I've ever received. Those who
blog
I've spent a lot of time studying foreign languages. One thing I've learned is that language isn't about logic and persuasive arguments---language is what it is no matter how illogical or offensive. {% pullquote %} {"If you need to write a blog post to argue
blog
I am a classical liberal. Adam Smith's proposition that individuals pursuing their own self-interest serve the common good is right. Violence is behind every act of government, therefore: 1) government should be minimized, and, 2) suspicion of government is both necessary and healthy. So why am I writing
technology
Google recently opened up a field trial of it's Google+ Facebook/Twitter competitor. So far, reaction to G+ has been largely positive among the early adopter crowd. Google+ has even earned a stamp of approval from the Chinese government which blocked Google+ within days of its launch...a