Elizabeth Tai's Blog

I won't be blogging on Squarespace anymore

Just a quick note that I will no longer blog on this website until I complete my migration to Wordpress.com’s hosted services. I’ve detailed my reasons in my Jan 2023 Now update.

It’s going to be a long, involved process which will probably take me about 3 months or, hopefully, less.

While I sort things out in the migration front, I will still be writing at these places:

Tai Tales - my Substack newsletter where I share essays, links, fiction. If you want to keep yourself up to date with all the con...

Let's have a Depth Year

Photograph by Engin Akyurt (Unsplash)

In 2023, I’m going deep.

To be more specific, I’m going to have a “depth year”.

Raptitude blogger David Cain originally coined this term in his post, Go Deeper, Not ...

2022: The year of disasters and discoveries

I feel almost guilty for saying this, but 2022 was the year I discovered many, many things that changed my life for the better. Particularly, for my mental health.

First, about the disasters:

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Why I quit Twitter

AI Art created by Nightcafe.

I wrote this article a few days ago, but I keep having to update it. Because things keep changing at Twitter. As of this writing, Twitter has banned people from posting lin...

How Bella Zamri wrote a hit novel on Wattpad

Look what I found! An ancient draft that I somehow forgot about. Around 2016, I interviewed Bella Zamri for the Malaysian daily, The Star.

Wattpad, the app with the great UX that allows anyone to share their works of fiction (and non-fiction) via a convenient mobile app, was all the rage then...

Lessons from The Psychology of money

Author: Morgan Housel

Published September 8, 2020 by Harriman House

Mr. Stingy raved about this book so much I had to read it. Fortunately, my Scribd subscription had the ebook and I devoured it immediately.

And lo and behold, it was quite an illuminating book.

Morgan Housel is a partner at the i...

Answer these 5 questions before you choose a productivity tool

I was having a conversation with a friend about productivity systems and we eventually talked about what productivity geeks like to talk about: productivity apps.

I asked my friend what software she used.

“Notion.”

I shuddered a little. “I found Notion way too complex and confusing.”

“Oh? What ap...

Why I switched from the bullet journal to Obsidian

Once upon a time, I was convinced I will never switch from analog to digital systems.

I loved the act of writing my tasks. My bullet journal was my life line. But the bullet journal stopped working for me when I changed jobs.

The bujo was great when I was a subeditor for a newspaper. My work w...

Why I switched from the bullet journal to Obisidian

Once upon a time, I was convinced I will never switch from analog to digital systems.

I loved the act of writing my tasks. My bullet journal was my life line. But the bullet journal stopped working for me when I changed jobs.

The bujo was great when I was a subeditor for a newspaper. My work was...

Google's Helpful Content Update: What it means for nicheless blogs

A new Google search update, another dance to the algorithm.

A friend and I were talking about how difficult it was to now find helpful, agenda-free content on Google. For example, google "should I use Wordpress?" and the top results are from...