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How a Bottle of Olive Oil Became a Shopping Agent

June 2026

How a Bottle of Olive Oil Became a Shopping Agent

It started with 'is this olive oil too cheap to be real?' and ended with an agentic Lazada scraper that vets sellers, fills one basket, finds a shop for a whole grocery list — and knows when it's been blocked.

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Take Your Claude Code Setup to a New Mac

June 2026

Take Your Claude Code Setup to a New Mac

Your skills, preferences, and the things Claude has learned about your work all live in ~/.claude. How to sync them across machines with git — and the one folder you must never commit.

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How I Use Spaceship

June 2026

How I Use Spaceship

Why Spaceship is where I register domains and run DNS as an API: cheap domains, a clean dashboard, and a REST API that lets Claude Code add a CNAME or verify a domain in plain English.

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Why I Train AI for People and Companies That Do Good

June 2026

Why I Train AI for People and Companies That Do Good

Scott Alexander gives a 20% chance of a future we'd actually want. Schrödinger's cat, an air hole, and a 2,500-year-old wager — why I'm putting my working life on that 20%.

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Working the Floor at Indonesia Critical Minerals 2026

June 2026

Working the Floor at Indonesia Critical Minerals 2026

How to work a conference floor systematically — a method from my mentor Shanto — plus a masterclass in the global nickel market from the Nickel Institute's chairwoman.

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A Pali PhD in My Pocket

June 2026

A Pali PhD in My Pocket

How I shipped a book, an audiobook, a Chinese edition, and a mobile app in one week with AI — while traveling and running a fund. (App Store review took two.)

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From Zero to a Sales Forecast in 2 Hours

June 2026

From Zero to a Sales Forecast in 2 Hours

What teams actually build in a single AImHuge AI workshop — a forecast in two hours, a dashboard from one prompt, a shipped landing page — in the words of the people who built them.

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Build a Two-Row Status Line for Claude Code

June 2026

Build a Two-Row Status Line for Claude Code

What each row tells you, how to build it from scratch, and a one-step skill: a two-row Claude Code status line with model, context %, tokens, diff size, and how much 5-hour and weekly rate-limit budget is left before the next reset.

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Zeph Report — Bangladesh through a Chinese investor's lens

May 2026

Zeph Report — Bangladesh through a Chinese investor's lens

A field briefing for Chinese capital looking at Bangladesh — politics, demographics, energy, BRI math, and the BNP government's first 78 days.

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Twenty Years Ago

April 2026

Twenty Years Ago

Twenty-five years after I first landed in Beijing, the fire came back — in Dhaka. A reflection on the trip that started Zeph, and why Bangladesh is where China was twenty years ago.

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How to Write a /done Skill for Claude Code

March 2026

How to Write a /done Skill for Claude Code

A step-by-step guide to building a /done skill that wraps up your Claude Code sessions with architecture docs, lint fixes, commits, and productivity reports.

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Meet Alex, our EiR — Accelerating Asia

September 2021

Meet Alex, our EiR — Accelerating Asia

A 2021 interview on travel, startups, focus, and advice for founders — from Alex's time as Entrepreneur in Residence for Accelerating Asia Cohort 5. Mirrored from Accelerating Asia.

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