Reflecting on 100 Days of Coding (R100 Series)—Introduction
In which I explain (and begin) a series on my effort to spend 100 days on learning to code.
No More Pictures On My Blog
On my blog, I’m going to put up text, but no more images. When you come to me for text, you’re coming to me for text.
Content Writing vs. Copywriting
Content writing and copywriting both drive to sell. Content is a bit more long winded, copy is sharper and snappier.
What Did I Really Learn in China?
I think about leaving China and whether I’ve really learned anything. Yes, of course I have, but I need to realize that. Give me a moment…
AI Superpowers Series: Copying
I’m writing a series in response to AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee. In this post, I want to respond to his section about the role of copying in China’s tech development.
Tech and Being Human
Technology takes what it means to be human and blows it up, shrinks it, speeds it up, slows it down, smears it, clarifies it, obscures it – anything, in fact, except for improve or degrade human nature itself.
Typo Mortification
Typos are mortifying. How can anyone live them down? I particularly detest the abuse of apostrophes. I almost want to open a home for abused and neglected apostrophes, I cringe so much when I see them. In international communication, what counts as a typo?
Writing Lightly
You have to write lightly for blogs. I grow weary of weighty content, but at the same time, I recently strung together a bunch of “how to” e-mails for easier reading and discovered so much fluff I was just about ready to open a teddy bear factory.