Writings · Leo
Essays in English, translated from the Chinese originals on leozhao.net.
They are arranged in six columns that mirror the Chinese site: Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility, Information and Corporate Social Responsibility, Culture and Business Observations, Family and Relationships, Human Subjectivity and AI, and Everyday Essays.
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- After Leaving: How to Use a Company History You Helped Create
Sorting through old work files from BlueCity, I found that asking questions of the material and being able to put it into research are two separate matters, and that this gap is itself a question of corporate social responsibility.
- From Parking Lots to 24-Hour Gyms
Walking around Bangkok, I keep noticing gyms behind street-level glass, many of them open 24 hours, and I began to wonder who they are really serving.
- A Story Gege Told: The Little Stone and ABSea
On the shuttle bus, Gege told me a story about a very ordinary little stone, and on the way home, a pirate joke.
- The Journey of Finding Leo (Leon Lai, A-mei)
Listening to a Leon Lai song and talking it over with AI, I found words for things I had long felt about voices, and about my own.
- The Tutoring Floor
On a mall floor full of classes and workshops, Gege and I looked at the same shops and saw quite different things.
- From Photo Vault to Browser: The Compliance Risks of Privacy Products
A private photo vault app that ships with its own browser prompted me to think through how a product's expanding features can change the scope of user data a company touches.