TEC has come to a close, and I’m now in my first week of classes at Yale. In the three short months since the program began, it’s incredible how much has changed, and how much those changes are a direct result of my experiences with True and Schematic Labs in San Francisco this summer. Just [...]

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Alex Moore, the founder and CEO of Baydin. Baydin, which means “foretelling the future through magic” in Burmese, is the company that brought Boomerang for Gmail and the Email Game into the lives of all of us who struggle every day to fight back the incessant flow [...]

Last Thursday, the creators of Sifteo came and spoke with us at the True office. They are in the process of launching and distributing a game system whose unique draw is built on the premise that people like to manipulate physical objects in the real world – it comes naturally to us, perhaps more so [...]

This past weekend, I got on Facebook and opened up a Friend List that I made earlier this summer, labeled “SF Summer ’11″. The list contained the names of everyone I knew that would be in San Francisco this summer, including friends from Yale, friends from Arizona, and, of course, the other TEC interns. Considering [...]

There are some people who leave the womb with an irrepressible urge to start their conquest for world domination. Paul Gu, one of my closest friends, is a perfect example. He took his first practice SAT while still in diapers and aced it (though to be fair, he was already in 8th grade and they [...]

It’s Week 2, and I already feel at home. My apartment in Berkeley is now comfortably furnished with beds, chairs, pots, pans, lamps, and the like, with my proudest addition being a wonderful coffee table we found in a dumpster diving expedition. I bought an A-Series Razor scooter for $28 (aka the kind built for [...]

I have a theory that I can beat anyone I meet in one game of rock, paper, scissors. Or if I don’t beat them, at the very least I won’t lose. I had a chance to put this theory to the test last Thursday while waiting for ice cream after an incredible day at True [...]