There are only 5-6 matriarchal societies left in the world, some are in Africa while others are in Southeast Asia. However, there is one in particular that caught my attention: Mosuo in China.
Why do they never get married? How do they feel about it? With the increasing inter-ethnic marriage and the opening of tourism in the Mosuo area, can they preserve their culture? Last November, I spent seven days in Mosuo villages and documented seven families with a focus on the head of the household and their living environment. I hope the following article gives you a peek into their lives.
Read MoreBetween May 7th to June 27th, I have conducted 101 photo session for the Palo Alto community.
Read MoreWhenever I travel, I always look up the local markets and make sure I set aside time to visit. For me, it is the most authenticate experience in a foreign country, the heart & soul of the local pulse.
Read MoreVaranasi is breathtakingly beautiful, unlike any place that I have ever been to. I have the fondest memories of attending Aarti and waking up at dawn to the morning ritual for many at the River Ganga, but I was also left with sadness about the pollution, poverty as well as the handling of prostitution and widowed women.
Read MorePeople often say that Rajasthan captures the true essence of India. The majestic palaces and fortresses, painted cities with tons of foot traffic, and the chaos of automobiles and bicycles. Yet, many traditions have remained without any changes.
Below is my travel journal, through a photographer’s eyes.
Read MoreLast November, I traveled to Cuba Havana for the first time, as part of the small photography group organized by the world-renowned photojournalist Peter Turnley. This short article is intended to capture the interesting aspect of Cuban living through a photographer’s eyes.
Read MoreI hit a low point both physically and emotionally today, after being in the lockdown for six weeks.
Read MoreThis summer, I visited Ecuador for the first time. I didn’t expect to be so spectacular in many ways: amazing landscape, diverse culture, and the most friendly people in Latin American I have ever met.
Argentina and Peru are considered as the top destinations in South America. While I love both very much, this article will give you a glimpse into what it is like to travel through the Andean mountain in Ecuador, and inspire you to add this to your bucket list!
Read MoreI met Dan Rasmuson, the up-and-coming young CTO of Labelbox through First Round Fast Track, a 90-day program that matches tech veterans with First Round-backed founders and execs for 1–1 mentorship.
During our first meeting in the Mission District, Dan’s first question was “How do I avoid my own blind spot?”. To be honest, this surprised me because I very much expected Dan to ask for guidance related to product growth, adoption and hiring talents — things that I have been asked very frequently.
Read MoreHere’s my interview with Sindre Sorhus, a prolific open source developer who lives in Thailand.
Read MoreI interviewed Karissa McKelvey, who is the Director of Engineering at Dat Project, a distributed data sharing tool that packages your data and shares it over a distributed network.
Read MoreI interviewed Nolan Lawson, Web Performance PM at Microsoft Edge. He also maintains the popular open source library PouchDB together with others.
Read MoreA little over a year ago, I started a new Instagram account called Tipsy Muse. I created it to document my journey through creating, and photographing countless cocktails. The first picture I took, was a remake of a drink from Bar High Five in Tokyo. From there, I ventured into creating concoctions of my own, to other global cocktails.
Read MoreI interviewed Charlie Cheever, who is the founder of expo.io. Expo’s mission is to let web developers build truly native apps that work across both iOS and Android by writing them once in just JavaScript. It’s open source, free and uses React Native.
Previously, Charlie co-founded Quora, and worked at Facebook on the platform team.
Read MoreI interviewed Evan You, the creator of vuejs.org which is a popular progressive JavaScript framework. Evan works on Vue full time with the funding from the Patreon campaign. Previously, he worked at Google and Meteor.
Read MoreI interviewed Irene Ros, who is the founding Director of Data Visualization at Bocoup where she has led visualization projects with partners like Google, The Guardian, The World Economic Forum, and Harvard Medical School (HMS) LINCS Center. Irene is also the Founder and Program Co-Chair of OpenVis Conf, a 2-day single-track conference about data visualization on the Open Web, entering its 5th year.
Read MoreI interviewed Guillermo Rauch, the founder of zeit.co. Zeit’s mission is to make cloud deployment simple, global, and real time. Rauch also built socket.io and founded two startups previously: LearnBoost and CloudUp.
Read More“Frequently not having any data connection in even the wealthiest and most developed cities of the world has led us to conclude that no, the mobile connectivity/bandwidth issue isn’t just going to solve itself on a global level anywhere in the near future.”
Read MoreI love mobile design because it’s full of constraints. Those constraints force us to think carefully about how and when we present information to the user, and what questions we ask, leading the user to hopefully make the selection we want.
At Chop, we went through three design iterations with a few user testings in between, before we released the first version in October. The consumer mobile app is much less forgiving compared to web apps that often have very iterative processes. This is also the first mobile design and development experience for me, and I was very keen on delivering the experience that I would want as a user.
Read MoreI wished more places offered the Starbucks commerce experience, and I marveled at how e-commerce and the cloud had transformed the way we did almost everything. From shopping to traveling, the internet eliminated single points of failure, and streamlined clunky processes. But there was one place where it still fell short: retail.
We are all carrying around pocket supercomputers that are more powerful than the servers that used to run e-commerce sites. Why then, can’t we use our phones to have an Amazon-like experience at our favorite cafés or stores, without waiting?
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