Earl Ng

What can we learn today?

This website was born out of a multitude of reasons. I wanted to carve out my own little portion of the internet that I could call mine. To set up a website where people could learn a little bit more about me and the stuff I do. And lastly, just to see if I could¹.

Based in Hong Kong, I am currently an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems consultant with the Nomura Research Institute (NRI) Hong Kong Ltd.. Outside of work, I serve as a Shaper in the Global Shaper Community: Hong Kong hub, as well as the founder of The Glowing Fool.

I would say that learning, for me, has always been an endeavor of curiosity. I would like to think of myself as a jack of all trades, master of none (often times better than a master of one). I like learning in the pursuit of something. And this can lead to all manner of very odd and interesting skills that I’ve accumulated. I can perform system administration tasks, and I can swing dance. I can build websites, I also make funny voices in weird accents. I don’t know if there is any rhyme or reason to it all. But it’s definitely fun.

This website was generated using Hugo (something new I picked up) and hosted on my own personal homelab. ↩︎

August 22, 2021

Augmenting Reality

Projects can come from the weirdest places at times. In this case it was a friend’s random offhand comment, “it would be cool to have an AR app that would help customers visualize having our products in their homes." There must be something like that floating around the internet, right? An opensource augmented reality (AR) project that could be modified to use different, custom, 3D models. A quick google search later, and lo and behold such projects do exist.

This Is How the World Will End

July 25, 2021

It is no secret that I am a big fan of technology. I recently had a conversation with a friend where she was recounting to me an incident where she left her phone at the gym, walking away for a good 20-minutes before she realized what she had left behind. My immediate response to that was “I am amazed that people can leave places without their phones." Asked to explain that sentiment, I elaborated that I do almost everything on my phone.

What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Digital’ Business?

July 4, 2021

Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft. These are the names that most come to mind when people think about “digital businesses”. They are companies that produce digital tools, but they do not have a monopoly on the concept of being digital businesses. Every company can be a digital business. And in fact, if COVID-19 has taught us anything, in the 21st century every company must become a digital business to survive and thrive.

Love

June 20, 2021

For all of human history we have sought to understand love. It is an emotion. It compels us to greatness, but it can also lead to ruin. It can be tragic, but also irreplaceable. It is simultaneously universal, but also ineffable. One thing is for sure however, love comes in many many different forms. Family. Friends. Partners. Love has woven itself into the very fabric of society. And with this, you would think that the ability to love whomever we wanted would be a given in day-to-day life.