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Envelop SF
When we first moved to San Francisco, I was excited to have a new environment but I was not sure I would enjoy the city as much. My previous visits to the city had been mostly work/tech related. While I love many of my co-workers and friends in big tech and in startups, parts of San Francisco felt.. like a tech…
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So This Is the New Year
Dream of the Noughties # It feels like we all just woke up from a collective dream. The dream of the '10s, where we gave our content, perhaps even our personalities, away for free to Facebook. No longer. Not only have I cut that toxic company out of my life, I have also started thinking about how web 1.0 got it right:…
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We Built This
Photo by Jack Finnigan on Unsplash. Growing up in Singapore, I thought I would one day live in San Francisco. It seemed like the things I liked a lot — music, writing, technology — converged in this town. Last year, I made the move here with my wife and dog. We immediately adopted a huge cat, which seemed to show that…
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Fresh Off The Boat
When I first moved to America nine months ago, I was perplexed by a never-ending list of things. They were not the 'big' ones, like having to learn a scary new language. We already spoke English. We'd seen enough movies. Our accents, we were told, were non-existent! You sound Californian!!! You have no accent! (Didn't…
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This Modern Love
I have spent the last six weeks in Reno. There was a point, at some time in my life, when "six weeks in Reno" was something I would eventually do — to atone for some adolescent sins. The sin of believing, as you're in the thick of massive progress for people like you, that just because you can do something…
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Rediscovering Video Games
One of the things I've been happiest about, for 2017 / 2018, is that I've rediscovered my love for video games. It used to be such a big part of my life, and then not, just as suddenly. In the past year or so, I've been more actively on the lookout for games that would amuse me or make me happy. So far, it's been:…
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Road, Gravel, Mud
It’s been a while since I’ve written about work. Even longer since I’ve gotten on a bicycle. In so many ways, running a startup is like a race. Some people like to do sprints. Some people like lycra. More and more, I find myself preferring endurance sports and comfortable clothing — perhaps because that’s the closest…
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So You Want To Be A Startup Founder
I was asked to speak at a local university's Young Entrepreneur Network event. Sometimes, I say yes to these things. For anyone interested, here are the slides. I wanted to share, mostly, my personal journey — how I got here. I also wanted to share some strategies for thinking about creating a startup if you're…
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Signals and Noise
I've been on the internet for a very long time, but my online self really only found its home when I got this domain in 2003. 14 years: enough to see blogs decline into the mushy wasteland that is Medium articles, video in every website we now load, and a million apps to help me connect with everything that we love.…
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Munduk
Munduk. Two people, suspended between heartbreak and fury, met on Hong Kong Street after almost 2 years without each other. Their hearts, recently broken by others, found each other agreeable — even safe. They made a plan. The universe attempted to foil it. To no avail. Through long public holidays, expensive flights,…
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Do What You Don't Know
Like so many people who grew up with the Internet, there have been many incarnations of my online self. To some, I will forever be the queer blogger who started writing about the lesbian experience as a teenager in Singapore in the early 2000s. Some find that courageous; I found it much more difficult to change…
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Shaken Not Stirred
When you work at Wobe, you’re bound to have conversations like these at some point: “Can you check on this transaction for me in dumplings?” “Let’s make some changes to kaya.” “This PR removes the confirmation code from diplomatico request” This is a feature, not a bug. We’re a company founded by foodies, but our…
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Randomization
As the cofounder and CEO of a tech startup working to improve financial inclusion in one of the world’s largest countries that is also one of the largest cash economies, I have amassed a wealth of odd knowledge on how cash works. How it works, specifically, at the intersection of people and connectivity. It always…
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The Last Mile
How to create products for emerging markets Nearly everyone wants to cash in on emerging markets. Facebook wants to fly drones to deliver internet connectivity over rural areas. They may or may not collide, in scale, ambition and delivery, with Google’s balloons (link). Whoever you are, emerging markets are hard. Every…
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How to Build Something
Wobe’s founder on the basics for technical success Jakarta Panorama by Gunawan Kartapranata (CC BY-SA 3.0). If you’re a founder too, technical or not, you’ll know all about the struggle. The struggle: late nights, being poor, having everything go well and then not, the very same minute. For me as a non-technical…
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On The Spectrum
What's it like to be on the spectrum? It is to be able to do wonderfully complex and abstract things, at the speed of light, yet to be stumped at how to give straightforward directions to others. To be diagnosed after the age of 30 is to learn quite resolutely: the weirdest feature in my being is not who I am, but what…
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Wordpress to Jekyll
If this looks bare to you, it's supposed to be. I've just finished archiving all of my old posts and giving them some new life as something else they're not: cool. By using Jekyll and Github Pages, this setup lets me edit the site in a way I must prefer now: with a text editor and git. Most things are still here, and…
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What 31 Feels Like
Wonderful but sometimes a downer. Comfortable but invigorating. Stable but enervating. Fun but sometimes mild. Energetic and delicious. World-changing and domestic, depending on the day. Upwards trajectory but sometimes down. 31 is about being happy in my own skin: that it's really okay to have greasy hair and…
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My article on Indonesia in Brink, last month
I've started writing articles for Brink, a new media publication by the same people behind the Atlantic. My first piece is on Tech’s Role in Reaching Indonesia’s Rising Middle Class.
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Panic at the Disco
Gay clubs were for flowers. Update: I wrote this piece before we learned more about what happened. I'm sorry about misgendering or mis-identifying the victims. I'm 31 in a few months. Not old, but old enough to remember how coming out was not on Tumblr, it was at Taboo. I would go with my best friends, all of us so…
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