Elizabeth Tai

July 2026: Lestat, OpenCode and the art of resting

The Last Generation of ‘Bananas’? How Malaysian Chinese Identity Is Transforming

The key to my successful weekly planning system: Time blocking with Google Calendar and Google Tasks

Substack writers, you need a website!

Linkblog: Dwelling on the Internet

Why the global south is grateful for Deepseek

Of abandoning mother tongues and shame

Writing with AI isn’t always generating entire novels with a prompt

Why I use Mistral as my personal paid AI service

Reading Pu Songling’s “The Haunted House”

March 2026: What I’m doing now

Linkblog March 26, 2026: On typing

How I conduct UX copy reviews

What I learned in Malaysian history class

Linkblog March 12, 2026: Platform blues

The Writing Community’s AI Panic

Linkblog Feb 26, 2026: The Chinese issue

Matt Chung: Building communities – one post at a time

Sometimes things disappear and reappear mysteriously in my life … and I’m kinda freaked out by it

Is it me, or is it just more difficult to find good fiction these days?

Hong Kong Wang Fuk Court Fire: Thoughts & links

How to use Notebook Navigator (Obsidian Community plug-in)

Does AI help you work  faster or is  it just hype?

Conversations about AI are different in Asia

After Charlie Kirk: Reflections from Malaysia

My blood will spill on this land

Should we bring up China’s Nanjing Massacre today?

Guide to writing fiction with AI

Fiction writing: What tasks will I outsource to AI?

Digital decluttering: Marie Kondo-ing the content I consume

What my AI fiction writing experiment taught me about my creative process

What if using AI to write fiction isn’t an evil act?

I support deleting your second brain

La Cocina’s Spandian touch

The cognitive debt of using AI to write essays

Are you a loudcaster?

iTOR: A cosy Western-Malaysian fusion cafe

Pushback against digital gardens?

Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?