公視的繁榮壯大是全台灣人的福音，但當公視績效不彰、官僚僵化，那它就是不折不扣的「社會問題」。
公視與納稅人的距離
一直都在關心公視，但第一次看到潛入內部從中分析的文章。跟想像的沒有差太多。
進入職場也超過10年了，換了三個工作之後，發現團隊績效與管理是經典的代理問題的印證。我一點都不喜歡在上市公司的薪酬結構：公司股價和累計的配股比起個人績效還要重要太多，但在相比另一家你也知道的非營利基金會全資持有的公司，我也說不上來這個問題的解法是什麼。
真的有答案的人，應該會拿諾貝爾經濟學獎吧？
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Taiwan: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
This is something share-worthy or even celebrate-worthy.
I was enthusiastic viewer of Last Week Tonight until I was stopped by compassion fatigue. After decades of exposure to late-night since Jon Stewart, I was looking for a break from having the news telling me what I should be angry about.
Yet, the issue of political status of Taiwan is surely something dear to me. I especially like the take-away — the place, the island, shouldn’t always just be mentioned in passing when talking about China; the people there deserve to decide their own future.
Something to make a note of.
Leaving Mozilla
Last week, I ended my journey at Mozilla. The decision to leave was bittersweet, but I felt it was the right time for me to try something new instead.
During my time at Mozilla, I worked on now-defunct Firefox OS as an engineer and later manager. I helped built the short-lived “Taipei Development Center” as well. It was quite a ride. Last year, as an individual contributor, I spent a large chunk of my time moving web content UIs to a Shadow DOM-based widget architecture, which shipped last week in Firefox 65.
I would like to share this paragraph from my goodbye letter to my colleagues here:
The internet has an impact on humanity akin to the printing press. For better or worse, we are in a place in time where we are empowered to shape the future for the next 500 years, just like what the printing press had done for the last 500 years. May we all find our ways to tame the beast.
I am joining Apple to work on MapKit JS. Looking at how modern web applications are built is a great opportunity to reflect my experience building a browser. I am looking forward to find out what I can contribute.