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The Impossible Imposter

A good friend of mine coined a term recently — “cyclic imposter syndrome”. It is something that I myself see more and more often around…

Oct 22, 2021

The Impossible Imposter

Oct 22, 2021

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The Culture of Secrecy

Why is the Ha! Ha! Business joke funny? It is, of course, due to the point of privileged exclusivity — and the apparent joys — that the…

Sep 7, 2021

The Culture of Secrecy

Sep 7, 2021

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Feeling Bloated

I rarely write these blogs anymore, mostly because for a while I felt like I have too much to do each and every day— which, of course…

Dec 28, 2020

Feeling Bloated

Dec 28, 2020

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Thoughts on CA Prop. 16

I usually don’t comment much on politics here, but here’s my take on CA’s Prop. 16 coming to ballots near you.

Oct 15, 2020

Thoughts on CA Prop. 16

Oct 15, 2020

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Goodbye, Twitter

I am leaving Twitter. This time, for avoiding nightmares.

Oct 2, 2020

Goodbye, Twitter

Oct 2, 2020

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Modality Fidelity

Vim… Such a bag of contention — so much so that I want to put my two cents in the bucket.

Oct 29, 2019

Modality Fidelity

Oct 29, 2019

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The Butterfly, The Switch, and the Contention in Between

People are so contentious about this. I am worried that the mere raising of this topic will cause a “Reddit Riot”… But, this is a thing…

Oct 10, 2019

The Butterfly, The Switch, and the Contention in Between

Oct 10, 2019

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ToDo-a-Rooni

At some point while writing this article, I realized that it was quickly becoming more of a 20HourRant. Whilst I am happy to rant for that…

Sep 12, 2019

ToDo-a-Rooni

Sep 12, 2019

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My Dark Playground

You know the feeling: getting stuck on some work while you are claiming to be “productive.”

Aug 29, 2019

My Dark Playground

Aug 29, 2019

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To Tweet or Not to Tweet

Twitter isn’t exactly bad. But I just can no longer handle looking at it for any period of time, let alone trying to get value out of it.

Aug 13, 2019

To Tweet or Not to Tweet

Aug 13, 2019

Houjun Liu

Houjun Liu

Human interested in linguistic analysis, social metrics, and user interfaces. AGI & Emacs are cool. Teaching robots how to robot, and getting humans to click.

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