✌️2020 | 👋2021.
✌️I'm Spencer
Dreaming, wandering, and laughing
- Seeking truth in paradoxes, beauty in the everyday, and connection in the unknown.
- How do we create a society that empowers creation and facilitates understanding?
- How might we embed intimacy, playfulness, and creative expression in our browsing experience?
Engineer by study, creator at heart in San Francisco 🌉
Currently working to empower people to collaborate and create @ Coda (never heard of it? check out my live monitor for a taste). Previously @
Airbnb,
Square,
Rice🦉
Assorted writing below. Ones marked with a indicate fictional/creative writing. You can also find shorter pieces on my substack.
I'm currently (as of 04-09-21) undertaking an experiment of publishing raw, lightly edited pieces every day towards achieving 100 public pieces. Check out the rationale and the full list here.
When the real and imaginary planes meet.
A critical re-evaluation of the tenets of Silicon Valley and an exploration of society and identity.
What happens when a majority of things that were "right" are now wrong?
Sharing the photos from the protest I attended last week.
When the progress of things is broken by catastrophe
Recounting a visceral experience. On light, humans, and meaning.
An experiment in crowd-sourcing birthday recommendations and the fruits of it.
What happens when good intentions are lost, everyone wants to be a hero, and the fight against evil spills over into innocents.
Sharing my method to data-empowered journaling and self-reflection
Learning from nature, past leaders, and the consequences of human toils
Providing transparency into how your team is using Coda and the power to act on it.
A match in the dark.
A discovery in the night.
How an American-born Chinese navigated teaching and living in Taiwan
Stumbling through first principles of education and learning
A reflection on my university journey
Introducing our Knowledge Graph for encoding relationships and surfacing relevant information