2025·09
I Don't Need This Year's iPhone - Guided Meditation
Every September, I do this meditation. This year, my iPhone 12 Pro barely survived another year. Or did it?
Hi! I'm Alex Hsu.
Welcome to My Blog! The plan is to write about self-improvement, getting disciplined, indie app development and becoming a content creator. Lazy me has written 13 posts with a total of 11,140 words.
My Posts
2025·09
What Singapore's Postal Code Taught Me: Go Big or Go Home
How a nation's six-digit postal code reveals the importance of system design, execution, and UX
2025·09
The Muggle Who Refuses Magic
When muggles can finally use magic but choose not to, isn't that stupid?
2025·08
Building My Zero Choice Wardrobe: Why I Only Wear Black and Uniqlo
From 86,400 outfit combinations down to 1. More minimal than a capsule wardrobe - the zero choice wardrobe!
2025·08
Voting for a World Without Ads
A Brazilian city without ads and visual pollution made me decide to remove all Google ads from my app
2025·08
Stop Letting The Algorithms Decide What I Listen To
While everyone's chasing the next new song, I decided to cancel Spotify and take back control of my music
2025·07
How to Stand Out When Everyone Can Build an App
In an era where AI makes development easy, real competitive advantage isn't about being faster or better—it's about being more interesting and memorable
2025·07
The Expiration Date of Ideas
Why my computer became a graveyard for ideas, and what I'm doing about it
2025·04
The Power of Boredom: Perhaps We Are All Geniuses Buried by the Entertainment of the Digital Age
Imagine if Newton had been addicted to mobile games or Mozart had binge-watched Netflix...
2025·03
Maintaining a multilingual blog is hard
The challenges of maintaining a multilingual blog and why I'm giving up (for now)
2025·02
12 reasons why I chose Kuala Lumpur as my next home
After having lived in the USA, China, Taiwan, Japan, why I'm moving again and decided on Kuala Lumpur
2025·01
2025 Goals as an Indie Developer
Spoiler: I want to make a bunch of apps.
2024·08
Starting a new blog at 34 years old
Why start a new blog now, when I've procrastinated for decades?