Elizabeth Tai
Elizabeth Tai
Elizabeth Tai
Elizabeth Tai writes about the Indieweb, knowledge management and anything she’s obsessed about Welcome to my digital garden.
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I find it hilarious that when I search for “working writer” on Pexel, they serve me numerous images of serious-looking people with typewriters. Honey, we’ve moved on from that, but I’ll use it because of the romanticism of it all. In...
TL;DR: As professional writers, we don’t have the luxury of ignoring AI; it’s learn the skills or get left behind. Still, I’m excited because AI has genuinely made me more productive and work (personal and work-work) has become a lot...
A couple of weeks ago, Fabrizio of Passo.uno dropped me a message on LinkedIn and told me that my article, “Substack writers, you need a website!“, was No.2 on Hacker News. I thought he was pulling my leg. I checked Hacker News and...
Reblogging this because it’s fascinating to see how this can be done. I probably personally won’t use it for my own personal workflows, as I prefer to be present during the formation of the draft, but I’m thinking of creating a system...
A few years ago, a Malaysian friend told me during the Twitter meltdown that she’s carefully cultivated a Malaysian safe bubble for herself on Twitter and she’s leery of losing that. Back then, I wasn’t very active on social media; I...
So Substack just dropped an unwanted feature on us: “Going forward, you’ll be able to scan text to see how much of it was likely written by hand or with AI assistance,” says Chris Best in Against Claudefishing. Well thanks, Chris. Didn’t...
A few years ago, a Malaysian friend told me during the Twitter meltdown that she’s carefully cultivated a Malaysian safe bubble for herself on Twitter and she’s leery of losing that. Back then, I wasn’t very active on social media; I...
Let’s get to the point. These are the reasons why I was irritated by Chris Nolan’s Odyssey: It’s a cheap attempt at diversity. Hollywood has been giving me the impression that it’s not confident stories from other cultures would be...
I’m currently towards the tail end of my leave after a medical procedure. I cannot believe time has flown so quickly. When I first got the leave chit, I thought to myself: So many weeks! What in the world am I going do during this time?...
The English-educated Chinese in Malaysia are dying out, and that could be a good thing. I am what many Malaysians would call a banana: Chinese, but more proficient in English. To others, I’m not “banana” enough, because by some freak of...
I depend on this daily/weekly routine to be as productive as I can be. This is an update from a previous workflow which used Trello. Now, I use Google Tasks in tandem with Gmail and Google Calendar. Tools I Use Google Calendar Gmail...
“But I already have a website on Substack,” you argue. No, no, Substack is just a distribution tool to amplify your website. It should not be your digital home. In the last few years, I’ve noticed a pattern of writers leaving their...
Welcome to my Linkblog where I share interesting articles and blog posts I found about social media, Indieweb, geopolitics, Chinese and Malaysian stuff, cute cat videos or anything funny and interesting I find online. FYI: I also share...
Deepseek is pretty amazing. I made 22 API calls yesterday and I have spent….$0.005. Granted my use case is extremely simple, just some simple data work, extracting and shuffling data from a csv file to create a directory page on a...
Now, a caveat before I go on. There’s a common narrative on left-leaning US-dominated social media that there’s a concerted effort by Beijing to stamp out native languages. This interpretation is false and propaganda, and this writer is...