Chrysaora Weekly

How to Make Friends On The Internet

A young man walks into a large pool party wearing a stiff suit. The host is nowhere to be seen…

Doing Nothing: A Love Letter

April was the first month in which I embraced doing nothing.

Pictures of Chinese People Scanning QR Codes

On the way back to Shanghai from our fieldwork trip in rural Guizhou, Tricia and I…

The Tamborzão Goes to Thailand

It started with a WeChat Sight I received from my mom at 7 a.m. one morning. I squinted sleepily at the…

The Life-Changing Magic of Losing Shit

Last week, I lost my backpack while waiting for a connecting flight home. Among the things…

Your Project Deserves a Good Death

We are generating a huge number of projects and entities that don’t…

Three Moments With WeChat

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On the morning of his wedding day, my cousin’s fiancé waited impatiently for Likes so…

Signal, Space, Structure: Designing for Communities of Interest

Last week, Gary Chou, Leland Rechis and I wrapped up our Entrepreneurial Design class, in which we asked our students to work on a 10 week project to build communities of their own. It was my first time trying to teach…

What I Care About When I Care About Tea

The most important thing about being a disciple of gongfu tea…