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Elizabeth Tai – Essayist, sci-fi writer and digital gardener.

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2026

As a writer, AI has now given me access to services that were too expensive beforeoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
A day in a life of the AI-assisted technical content writeroriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
Excited and exhausted: My honest take about life as a techwriter in the AI ageoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
My article was No.1 on Hacker Newsoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2026
How to Build Your Own AI Writing Pipeline (No Paid Tools)original ↗
15 Aug 2026
Being a minority on social media sucks sometimesoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2026
Pangram in Substack? I’m so excited for the AI witch huntsoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
On the matter of Greek erasure in Christopher Nolan’s The Odysseyoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
July 2026: Lestat, OpenCode and the art of restingoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
The Last Generation of ‘Bananas’? How Malaysian Chinese Identity Is Transformingoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2026
The key to my successful weekly planning system: Time blocking with Google Calendar and Google Tasksoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2026
Substack writers, you need a website!original ↗
10 Jun 2026
Linkblog: Dwelling on the Internetoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
Why the global south is grateful for Deepseekoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2026
Of abandoning mother tongues and shameoriginal ↗
31 May 2026
Writing with AI isn’t always generating entire novels with a promptoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
Why I use Mistral as my personal paid AI serviceoriginal ↗
2 May 2026
Reading Pu Songling’s “The Haunted House”original ↗
3 Apr 2026
March 2026: What I’m doing noworiginal ↗
29 Mar 2026
Linkblog March 26, 2026: On typingoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
How I conduct UX copy reviewsoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
What I learned in Malaysian history classoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2026
Linkblog March 12, 2026: Platform bluesoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
The Writing Community’s AI Panicoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2026
Linkblog Feb 26, 2026: The Chinese issueoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2026
Matt Chung: Building communities – one post at a timeoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2026
Sometimes things disappear and reappear mysteriously in my life … and I’m kinda freaked out by itoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
Is it me, or is it just more difficult to find good fiction these days?original ↗
21 Jan 2026

2025

Hong Kong Wang Fuk Court Fire: Thoughts & linksoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2025
How to use Notebook Navigator (Obsidian Community plug-in)original ↗
25 Nov 2025
Does AI help you work  faster or is  it just hype?original ↗
31 Oct 2025
Conversations about AI are different in Asiaoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2025
After Charlie Kirk: Reflections from Malaysiaoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2025
My blood will spill on this landoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2025
Should we bring up China’s Nanjing Massacre today?original ↗
20 Aug 2025
Guide to writing fiction with AIoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2025
Fiction writing: What tasks will I outsource to AI?original ↗
13 Aug 2025
Digital decluttering: Marie Kondo-ing the content I consumeoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2025
What my AI fiction writing experiment taught me about my creative processoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2025
What if using AI to write fiction isn’t an evil act?original ↗
23 Jul 2025
I support deleting your second brainoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2025
La Cocina’s Spandian touchoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2025
The cognitive debt of using AI to write essaysoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2025
Are you a loudcaster?original ↗
7 Jun 2025
iTOR: A cosy Western-Malaysian fusion cafeoriginal ↗
23 May 2025
Pushback against digital gardens?original ↗
13 May 2025
Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?original ↗
10 May 2025
My new productivity workflow using email and Trellooriginal ↗
4 Apr 2025
Tsunami ghosts, anti-LinkedIn post, digital gardens, Obsidian discoveries, NPCs and moreoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2025
The return of the sunbirdsoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2025
The COVID-19 lockdown diariesoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2025
Personal Financeoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2025
My 15-minute city lifestyle in Malaysia!original ↗
4 Feb 2025
How I use social media, and why Mastodon is still No.1 for meoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2025
Public transportation in my neighbourhood and I have electric car envyoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2025
Gearing up for Chinese New Year with a day of shopping at Sunway Pyramidoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2025
I am social media burned outoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2025

2024

Weekend Tales #8: My favourite things of 2024original ↗
31 Dec 2024
My experience ‘going paid’ on Subastack in 2024original ↗
28 Dec 2024
Weekend Tales #7: Year ends and bodice rippers in the desertoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2024
I love Malaysia. I also resent it.original ↗
17 Sept 2024
5 more reads from Asiaoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2024
Malaysians stunned by Kuala Lumpur sinkholeoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2024
That time when I lived in a haunted houseoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2024
The circle of competence and our information dietoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2024
What’s happening in Britain?original ↗
7 Aug 2024
Auditing my social media use and information consumptionoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2024
The reason why you’re so tired at work: Context switchingoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2024
Weekend Tales #6: The Paris Olympics fried my brainoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2024
Learning Chinese vocabulary as a headless chickenoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2024
I once tolerated Kuala Lumpur. Now, I love itoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2024
A secret Pentagon campaign to spread vaccine disinformation has come to lightoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2024
The cold war in Chinese fandom spacesoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2024
The tricky art of learning Chinese charactersoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2024
Substack round-up: Six newsletters from Asiaoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2024
So I’m learning Mandarinoriginal ↗
17 May 2024
Weekend Tales #5 My ambition is to have an unextraordinary lifeoriginal ↗
10 May 2024
3 Body Problem is a bit of a problemoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2024
Comprehensible input and creating my own Mandarin-learning curriculumoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2024
I think I read a racist thing from Canada this morningoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2024
3 Body Problem vs Three-Bodyoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2024
Sweeping tombs, eating food and waving at the deadoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2024
Why a lot of my content is now gatedoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2024
Have you enjoyed some Chinese propaganda lately? I did.original ↗
30 Mar 2024
Creating a Mandarin-learning routine for myselforiginal ↗
19 Mar 2024
I speak four languages. That’s just being Malaysian.original ↗
15 Mar 2024
Sad Stories of Asian Peopleoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2024
Hello from a bananaoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2024
My yearly negotiations with Mum about Chinese New Year cookingoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2024
Thoughts on Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladmir Putinoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2024
Chinese New Year auntie uncle timeoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2024
The tools and courses I’m using to learn Mandarin (free and paid)original ↗
1 Feb 2024
Weekend Tales #4: My focus in 2024 is ‘beauty’original ↗
12 Jan 2024
Why I am learning Mandarin in 2024original ↗
2 Jan 2024

2023

2023 Recap: Concepts and discoveries that made the year better for meoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2023
Year-end reflections and how I do themoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2023
Now on Substack – elitism, condescension and dogpilesoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2023
The Vigil at the Manor (Part 4/7)original ↗
27 Nov 2023
When Sunbirds built a nest in my balconyoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2023
The vigil at the manor (Part 3/7)original ↗
19 Nov 2023
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