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Ben Tsai

@bentsai.org

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bentsai.org product-minded engineer that advocates for human-centered design. ai is not the answer. @ Cisco Secure @ Carnegie Mellon University MSE

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Ben Tsai @bentsai.org · 07/10/2026

I took some photos with my new film camera.

Dark hallway with people and light in the middle.

Little library and tilted pole, wrapped in police tape

Traffic light with bright green and red color

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Ben Tsai @bentsai.org · 09/12/2024

I splurged a bit and got Ugmonk’s daily and weekly Analog systems. And a 15 minute hourglass. Today is day 1—let’s see how this goes. Every system I adopt fails sooner or later ;)

A photo of a desktop with hourglass, Ugmonk Analog system, Magic Mouse and pika sticker

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Ben Tsai @bentsai.org · 12/11/2024

I beat Super Metroid recently. “See you next mission”

Photo of the ending screen of Super Metroid on a SNES Classic

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Ben Tsai @bentsai.org · 01/10/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #35,319!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #35,319, Ben Tsai ‪@bentsai.bsky.social‬, joined on Apr 24, 2023"

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Ben Tsai @bentsai.org · 17/10/2023

fixed gear bikes have a similar vibe as fixed lens cameras. less is more, constraints promoting creativity, the joy of the process vs gear acquisition there's a saying for such cameras: zoom with your feet and apparently for fixed gear bikes: my legs are my gears

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Ben Tsai @bentsai.org · 25/04/2023

Attending an internal user research conference today—let's talk about humans!

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