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Between places
This is not my typical reporting or trend analysis. It starts as a fly on the wall but drifts into something much more personal halfway through, a reckoning with my first year living in the Bay Area, how the migration I observe mirrors my o...
#10 Crypto churches and AI evangelism
Note: This Leapfrog episode is a narration of the essay below. The narration is generated using my AI-cloned voice, which doesn’t sound like me (but I’m sure it will if I spend more money and time on it).
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The wind swe...
Something new 🌊
Update (October 2025): I no longer write and manage this newsletter.
Game studios in Eastern Europe. App factories in Turkey. And robotaxis in the Middle East.
These are fascinating tech stories that go unnoticed in mainstream med...
#9 Quitting VC to chase mom-and-pop shops
In this episode, we’re stepping away from the metaverse and AI craze and turning to the world of traditional industries.
Venture capital is an often glorified job for young professionals. Will Kurniawan lived that dream for a few years bef...
Culture matters at DeepSeek
Koi at an art show. Photo: Rita Liao
Friends have been asking for my takes on DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI company that has stunned Silicon Valley by training powerful large language models at a fraction of the cost of its US counterpar...
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