James K. Lew
Chinese-Mexican millennial and San Diego native.
Returning adult college student.
2026 SDSU Graduate Magna Cum Laude.
MBA candidate.
Proud dog owner.
As a child of the digital dawn, I grew up dialing into the internet using a telephone landline in those bygone early days of home computing and web access. I remember when the promise of the internet revolution was infinite access to knowledge and information.
And in the time since, I’ve seen the web shift from an open global network of websites brimming with potential to the the current dystopian landscape where mass smartphone adoption has funneled people en masse into corporate-owned siloed platforms, and online content is being perpetually as risk of intellectual theft from AI models. In response, I largely withdrew from an online presence, making only the occasional FaceBook/Instagram posts every weeks as passive proof-of-life activity to my peers.
But moving into this new chapter of my life, I’ve been inspired by my old ideals of building and maintaining websites that are fully owned and controlled, and to step into my inner writer I’ve long been too unconfident to embrace.
Read the latest entries here, or find me on one of the platforms linked below.
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