Location: Taipei, Zhongxiao Xinsheng, Tugou Beer House
Just got back to Taipei and my evening plans got canceled. Saw IPA's post about the g0v (Taiwan's g0v) 10th anniversary party at the Social Experiment Center on Ren'ai Road, with an after-party later. So I decided to drop by. Met up with my old high school classmate from Taichung First High, CLKao—haven't seen him in eight years, since we had a barbecue at his place in Pinglin back in 2014. CL later founded InfuseAI, which helps companies use AI to solve daily operational issues (MLOps). Last year, they secured $4.3 million in Series A funding. Thinking back to when he started g0v, time really flies. When we were younger and I lived in Neihu, I'd sometimes crash at his mountain place. Now we're all middle-aged. Those memories are truly unforgettable fragments of life. It's rare that we still get to bump into each other occasionally. Besides catching up with CLKao and IPA (who's working on a new book), I met many others tonight—a Google engineer, a cybersecurity engineer from Toronto, a well-known figure in Taiwan's Web3 scene (also a junior from Taichung First High, Huang Dou Ni), a lawyer at Academia Sinica, an NGO worker (ano…
