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Can a VC with Claude Code find better keloid treatments?

I have keloids. If you don’t know what those are, consider yourself lucky. They’re raised, rubbery scars that grow way beyond the original …

+330 XP 31 MAR 2026

Why My Starbucks Name Is 47

Starbucks asks for your name because someone in a boardroom decided it would “foster connection.” The barista says your name, you feel …

+90 XP 5 MAR 2026

Writing Code Is Dead. Long Live the Meta Engineer.

Everyone keeps saying writing code is dead. They’re not wrong — but not quite right either. What’s dead is the value of typing code. AI …

+150 XP 26 FEB 2026

Press the Buttons, People!

My computer science grad cousin and his data scientist wife are peering at my laptop screen, looking at a little app I built — the bane of every …

+150 XP 19 FEB 2026

Welcome 2024!

A new year is always a great opportunity to reflect and set some goals - inspired by Der Shing’s blog, thought it useful to jot down priorities …

+60 XP 1 JAN 2024

A year of podcasting

Late last year, Jeremy Au invited me to do a weekly podcast with him, riffing on the latest news in the Southeast Asia Tech scene. Now I love …

+90 XP 1 JAN 2024

Early entrepreneurial efforts

One of my favourite childhood memories was picking fruit from my best friend’s yard, loading up her red radio flyer wagon, and wandering around …

+90 XP 27 MAR 2023

Race, power and what we can do about it

If you’re watching the news, and face it, who isn’t, it’s disheartening to watch what’s happening in the US right now. …

+210 XP 1 JUN 2020

Pandemic baking and remembering how to learn

I’d taken up baking like everyone else during the COVID-19 pandemic, precipitated by a friend’s kind gift of a 3 year old sourdough …

+90 XP 1 JUN 2020

What I've been doing since leaving NerdWallet

After nearly 6 years building NerdWallet, I left at the end of March to move back to my home country, Singapore. It’s been nearly 18 years since …

+90 XP 5 SEP 2018