From ownership to access

by | Sep 18, 2013 | Post

In today’s world, the default method of gaining access to a resource is to purchase. A piece of clothes, a mobile phone, food and drink, a car… Even renting a house, what most of us the 99%s do, is considered Plan B next to buying it. We rent primarily because of...

The means is also the end

by | Sep 17, 2013 | Post

I used to get baffled by the price differences between local cuisine and foreign cuisine in Taipei’s restaurant scene. I may enter a noodle shop (麵 in Chinese term), have a delicious bowl of beef and tomato noodle, and pay 80NT (= US$3). Add “Italian” to the name...

Melting yourself to stand out

by | Sep 16, 2013 | Post

(Today’s post has also been contributed to Red Room Taipei, a network of monthly open-mic event where anybody can share anything for 5 minutes.) Whenever I meet a new Taiwanese friend and strike a short conversation, I have an obligation to answer two...

Meet your small death and birth

by | Sep 14, 2013 | Post

So far, the most important ability I have been building in my nascent freelance life is to reset myself every morning. When I wake up, I am a different person, reborn out of a small death called sleep (a concept borrowed from a friend of mine). Resources in a...

Great ideas always start weak

by | Sep 13, 2013 | Post

I recently started riding a manual-transmission motorcycle, switching from the previous automatic-transmission scooter. The motorcycle has no place to carry luggage, is heavy and long, sounds like a tractor than a motorcycle (I named it Tract-One) and the biggest of...