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How A.I. Saved My Kids’ School Life (And My Marriage)
Ever feel like you’re drowning in a sea of school emails? I’ve been there, and it’s not pretty. Picture this: It’s 7 AM, you’re gulping down coffee, and your kid says, “Dad, I need a Roman costume for school today.” Cue panic mode. Sound familiar? Here’s the kicker: this nightmare scenario is totally avoidable. How?…
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How I helped my teacher wife use A.I. to write university reference letters 2x faster
My wife is a teacher and she always complains about writing reference letters. It’s time consuming but hugely important for the students. She’s had a stellar track record and many of her students end up at Ivy league schools. She always complains about how long it takes her to write those reference letters. If that’s…
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Gamification – Serious games
What if we can make exercise as addictive as games? I’ve been trying to gamify fitness in the past 1.5 years and want to write down some of the distilled learnings I’ve made. I think this is interesting because I believe there are 2 camps of developers: apps and games. I’ve always considered games developers…
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What if exercise is addicting?
What if exercise is addicting? At OliveX, we’ve been developing gamified fitness apps for the past 1.5 years and want share some of our mistakes and learnings. Also, as someone new to the game industry I want to share some of the things I learned about game design. I’ve always admired game developers because there…
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From free to play to paid to play: How cryptocurrency will change the game
At OliveX, we just announced a partnership with Lympo (cyrpto currency for health and fitness) to earn crypto for doing squats. And they say crypto currencies aren’t worth squat…. Earn crypto for doing squats! Previously, I wrote about how our mission is to make exercise a little more addicting (in right dosage) and I truly believe…
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5 apps and tools I use for online privacy
There is nothing more expensive than something free I never really cared about online privacy with the logic that I have nothing to hide. So I posted pictures on social media, always allowed location access and signed in using the ever so convenient social login button to every site. Until I read the book The…
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My top books of 2019
My annual top 10 books list. In no particular order. 1. Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs Great book on building product. Insider stories on how the first iphone was built. Key lesson: keep iterating on product demos. Build a prototype first. 2. The mom test A really…
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Deconstructing One Punch Man
As a mobile app developer, I enjoy playing with new apps and games every week. In particular, I like to look at how people monetize and how to bring people back into the app. 1. Anchor price They have a beginner’s welcome pack. This is great because it gives an anchoring price for everything else.…
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Deconstructing Archero
I first downloaded Archero because I kept getting targeted with it’s ads. It’s ads were everywhere. The video ads were quite interesting, they had people shoot an arrow through a phone. They got someone to chainsaw the phone with the archero game on. It certainly made me watch the ad, so kudos to their user…
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My top 10 books of 2020
For the 4th year in a row, here’s my top 10 books I’ve read in 2020. You can check out my 2019 list here. 1. Positive Psychology in a nutshell I think everyone can agree that we need a little more positivity in 2020. After I took the science of well being course, I went…