A comparison of cellular bands in Apple's 2024 products
Which regional models of the new iPhones and Apple Watches have the best cellular band support?
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Best life-hack: Find something you love
I spent 3 hours in the gym tonight. I hate going to the gym. Or at least I used to.
Gloomy Guangzhou
Thoughts and questions from my first trip to Guangzhou since covid.
Why I post reviews on centralized corporate platforms
Why I post reviews on platforms I don't own...
Voting in the 2023 Hong Kong district council election
I tried to vote in the district council election and all I got was a greeting card.
Day 33: Our ability to learn is mind-blowing
Learning something new is the best drug. Give it a try!
Day 32: Good skippers ask what's next
The GTD behavior of defining a next action is the hallmark of a good skipper.
Day 31: To command effectively, always say the name
One of the easiest leadership skills to learn is to always say the other person's name.
Day 30: URLs and composability
Musings on URL composability in web apps.
Day 29: The great Hong Kong floods of 2023
The great Hong Kong floods of 2023 were not entirely unexpected. What went wrong...
Day 28: The best seat selection UI ever
Airline website developers could learn a lot from the Eurostar seat selection interface.
Day 27: Are airlines buses or experiences?
Airlines are unable to decide if they are in the transportation or the experience business.
projects
Day 26: Four questions I ask before starting new projects
When considering a new project, I first ask myself these four questions.
crypto
Day 25: Crypto is the coordination business
Crypto is about tackling problems too big for one company to solve.
bitcoin
Day 24: Laser-eyed HODLing alone is not enough
We need more than just HODLing to get to us to hyperbitcoinization.
disasters
Day 23: Predictable natural disasters are not natural at all
Predictable natural disasters, are not natural at all, but the result of human choice.
hong kong
Day 22: A snow day in Hong Kong
A category 4-equivalent typhoon is pounding Hong Kong...but the city is calm and everything will be fine. How is that?
china
Day 21: Americans have no idea how much better China’s infrastructure is
Frequent power outages were the norm growing up in the USA but almost never happened while living in China.
freedom
Day 20: Opting out of US healthcare and social security
I opted out of the US social ponzi scheme, but with that freedom comes responsibility.
internet
Day 19: Why am I paying for you to read this?
Musings on the perverse incentive structure of the internet.
stacks
Day 18: Stacks will be the Paypal mafia of Bitcoin
It's incredibly motivational to see what Stacks OGs and the community are building!
writing
Day 17: Writing about hard things is hard!
Writing about topics in which I'm invested is hard.
immigrants
Day: 16 Diaspora have a bone to pick
Diaspora often have a bone to pick with their former homes...that's often why they left...take their views with a grain of salt!
hong kong
Day 15: Employer tax withholding is a scam
Employer tax withholding is a scam used to get people to pay heavy taxes without feeling the pain.