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California kid traveling and eating his way around the world, currently based in Japan and Taiwan.

Taipei, Taiwan 🇹🇼
Joined June 2009
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Register for Snow Machine Japan Pre-sale and be in to WIN!: arep.co/DM92B
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Michael Wu retweeted
I’m hiring a product designer for Sudowrite. This is a dream job for a designer who loves to write. The beginning of the listing is… a mini therapy sesh for me. You’d think it’d be chill after that. But no, it goes on to talk about our company cult… sudowrite.com/jobs/designer
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Want to feel 30 when you hit 100? We can show you how! With Bryan Johnson, Kristen Fortney, Tim Urban & many more, we’ll spark an Apollo Program to solve aging. Upgrade your health & join the revolution in Berkeley, CA this Friday!
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Michael Wu retweeted
I am SO EXCITED to announce my new project: the @yesandtech 90 DAY HARDWARE CHALLENGE I teamed up with two MIT classmates to ideate, design and SHIP an all new hardware product in just 90 days! Our new ventures is called YesAnd Technologies For a long time I have been fascinated by the opportunity that sits at the intersection of AI, social media, and new manufacturing capabilities. I believe it is possible to ship hardware people love faster than ever before for three reasons: 1. AI tools increase the speed of design far beyond where we were just two years ago. Vibe hardware anyone? 2. Social media enables hardware creators to build a community and receive lightning fast feedback on product ideas. 3. New manufacturing technologies in Shenzhen enable things like real injection molding tooling in less than two weeks. We are going to combine all three of these things in our first web series the 90 DAY HARDWARE CHALLENGE! I’ll be posting regular updates to my Twitter channel, as well as to YesAnd.Tech social channels. Follow us to watch the madness!
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To the 🇨🇳 guys who forcibly took my 🇹🇼 flag at @edc_thailand, you are idiots and make China look bad on a world stage. I feel sorry for you for being so small. (To be clear, I have no problem with regular Chinese people)
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I have 3 LINE accounts and I'm currently restricted from logging into 2 of them due to verification SMS throttling 😅 Ideally I'd just have 2 though, trying to migrate my US 🇺🇸 account to my Taiwan 🇹🇼 account triggered this whole mess.
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New article out with (mostly Japan) tax tips, such as how to amend Japanese tax returns and expat friendly accounting services that can help with Japan, Taiwan and US taxes 💸 buff.ly/4iPSxjy
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Finally was able to link my PayPay card and PayPay app. There was some mismatch of name formatting, and previously the only thing I could do was apply for a new card, or go through a complicated customer service process. Now I can pay when my balance isn't enough! #japan #paypay
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Got my Taiwanese 🇹🇼 driver's license today by converting my Japanese 🇯🇵 driver's license! Overall process was quick and cheap, after I figured out what was going on.
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Some pain points for Japanese users on Android looking to use transit cards: 1. Foreign Visa / Mastercard seems to not work to load IC cards, whether Suica, PASMO, ICOCA 2. ICOCA is not available in Google Wallet #android #suica #pasmo #icoca #japantransit #fitbit
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3. The iPhone interface for managing transit cards is much easier. Yes, for some advanced features you need the separate app still, but on Android you also need Osaifu Keitai AND Osaifu Keitai Settings AND Felica Mobile Client apps.
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4. You can't move PASMO from iPhone to Android. Suica and ICOCA can be transferred either way though. Anyways, this isn't great and speaks to Google's lack of coherent UI vision. Will be testing transit card support with a FitBit device, but apparently only Suica is supported.
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Upgraded to a @Google Pixel 9 Pro from a 5 year old @Samsung Galaxy S9+, and trying to use it as a daily driver over my iPhone. Some thoughts: #google #pixel #pixel9pro #apple #iphone
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4. Having a fingerprint sensor AND Face Recognition is much more useful, especially in the dark.
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5. There are clunky portions of the interface. It takes two swipes to get to the full settings. It takes extra steps to switch between cell data lines as the 2nd line doesn't show in the quick settings or the Internet panel. The Photo / Video switcher in the Camera is too small.
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