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Sunset views from your new Tuesday office I'm opening up my home in Malibu for "Together Tuesdays," an intentional co-creation and community space. My inspiration for doing so is loosely based on Radha Agrawal's book, Belong. She encourages her readers to look at the intersection of their values, interests, and abilities to build community and the sense of belonging.  I've always felt like a Third Culture Kid - someone who wasn't fully Chinese, yet also wasn't fully American. My family also moved multiple times during childhood, and as an adult, I have done the same... I haven't stayed in the same home for more than 18 months since college. Without a strong connection to a specific culture or place, I've often felt alone, despite all my wonderful friends and family. I knew that I had to build or find my own community, to belong.  My last project, UMA, was an attempt at community building. My initial goals in co-founding UMA had little to do with cr...

A common pro-UBI argument is that it will enable people to stop selling their time for meaningless work, and instead pursue art, passion projects, or unlikely home runs. Opposing arguments suggest that people will instead play video games and intoxicate themselves all day, given both how cheap and immersive digital entertainment has become.  This has been my experience.  First, some background: I was born in rural China and immigrated to the United States when I was 5. For half my childhood, we hovered around the poverty line. For the other half, we lived like we were still below it. My parents were big savers to the point of stinginess on anything that wasn't deemed "essential" or education related. My mindset was always one of scarcity: for most of my 20s, despite making a 6 to 7-figure income, I was terrified of losing my livelihood and being forced back into survival mode.  When I was younger, this influenced me to work hard and follow the Golden Path that my parents ...