a list of things i want to write about

please shoot me a message if you wanna write about them. i have a rough mental model of what is interesting about each. please do bounce ideas of with me!

ai

• how anyone can work in AI (ai for everyone)
• a deep dive history into the transformer
• the leverage engineer (thoughts on a new internal AI transformer)
• RL for weather prediction
• AGI is when the model learns how to integrate itself
• the engineerification of non-engineer operators (swes can pivot!!!) + founder's associates
• whirlwind tour of RL
• a economic value per token metric
• how does kimi k2.5 agent swarm work?

finance/venture

• does VC make sense a junior
• human data and rollups
• the HK venture ecosystem
• the secondaries market in China (a follow up convo with Lu Qi)

politics

• a whirlwind tour of AI in China
• the geopolitics of the arctic
• an informal guide to hk power and the civil service
• how can AI influence elections
• who are the next technocrats of China? (follow up from Li Cheng)
• what are the KPIs of each province in China?
• competition in China and the invisible hand
• education and China AI education plan

life/heuristics

• a 2025 letter/annual letters
• quarterly updates (q1, q2, q3, q4) and put them in the now section
• how to disagree properly
• on social leverage and social capital
• how to be okay with your parents and friends not understanding what you do (or vice versa)
• how do you update your beliefs
• how to be a good conversationalist
• why do i like the cold over the warmth
• a 3 part series on attachment theory
• the order you do things matter more than you think
• how to build mental maps of new fields
• being a career chameleon
• 20 principles at 20
• what is the best way to introduce yourself

misc

• the etiquette of mahjong
• how to make the most of hkgcc
• what even is work experience
• good cold emails heuristics