Jerry Liu

The best relationships in my life are seldom the longest ones.

Well, 2026 has just started and my autistic ass has already learned a few new social patterns.

Hi, I’m Jerry.

When I joined my first startup after leaving a big tech company, I was excited to move fast.

You don’t get to take unlimited big bets in a single lifetime.

I thought I was cool Walking to Equinox Soho In my Canada Goose At 0 degrees in the Manhattan Winter Only for my panache to crumple instantly As a pleasant cigarette smoke wafted into my nose From a nameless dark man In a thrifted French beret And cheap l…

I’ve been chatting with a few female friends about dating.

Reverberations: Waves flooding a hollow trunk floating in a rice field. 1 The husk splits, roots finally spreading into soil I’ve been taught to reject, for it was, after all, beneath me.

Thirty years, the maven, mind’s eye, a Raven.

The Japanese have a word for it: tsundoku.

(For context: AGI stands for Artificial General Intelligence, which means an AI that matches or exceeds human-level reasoning across all cognitive tasks, rather than specific tasks like chess.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except that life comes with insecurities.

AI tech era— Engineers clambering to deprecate themselves.

The zombie wakes Begrudgingly leaving its bed Bindings falling away Dirt seeping from his eyes As he recaptures the art Of setting one bony foot after the other Stumbling past the doorway with a groan Down into the catacombs Where lies his Treasure The El…

Tech craze, Zuck pays.

The doctor, the entrepreneur, the engineer, and the ghost sit in a rented red Fiat endlessly driving from Nice to the winding bends of the Alps.

I followed every coefficient backpropagated every label but for all the good of ten million data points and a thousand machines I taught to learn how humans “behave” I myself never learned why she changed her mind about her love for me on the coldest sunny

on days she sleeps my muse i light a candle and imagine the wisps that billow in reverse!

After 6 years of consulting and startup adventures, I’ve been trying to get back into big tech.

The world is shrinking, and some people are upset.

I find that when I play RPG games, I often hoard single-use items like potions and scrolls, saving them for some future critical moment.

Introduction When I was younger, I thought dating was primarily about “impressing” someone enough that they would somehow find you attractive.

In the fast-paced world of software engineering, an industry characterized by an average tenure between 1-2 years1, the notion of seniority has always been somewhat fluid.

At dinner the other day my Chinese dad brought up whether English had a term for the Chinese word 鲜.

This morning I read Creation happens in silence, a short and sweet blog post about how the vital moments of the creative process happens in silence, and often in isolation.

So if you know me, you know I love self-help books and I collect too many and don’t read enough of them (as they’re overfilled with anecdotes and only a few actual points).

ChatGPT is super hot right now, and its two biggest uses are to generate art and to generate code.

I started my career as an engineer at Facebook before leaving to build a startup.

It’s January 1st 2023, so I imagine everyone is making their New Years’ Resolutions.

Anyone else remember setting their status on MSN Messenger before Facebook took over?

Nobody has ever asked me what a pointer is IRL, but here’s what I would say if they did.

Link to article.

When’s the last time you just sat down and thought about stuff?

Who What When Where Why and How - A Short Silicon Valley Poem The CEO looks at the market conditions to identify a problem that a user segment has.

Link to original comment on Reddit.

One of the most common university majors for past presidents is History.

There’s a common trend among companies, blogs, and even Github repositories to create a list of “tools” for startups.

I play a fair amount of video games, including emotional, aesthetic games like Florence and complex, open games like Dwarf Fortress.

OpenAI recently shut down one of their clients’ chatbot projects and this was discussed on Hacker News with plenty of arguments on both sides.