Ideas on the future
of work

Documenting thoughts, research updates, teaching reflections, and the useful tools that shape my practice -- turning field notes, classroom experiments, and AI workflows into resources for collaborators.

Tools 6 min New

Beyond the Usage Bar: Estimating Codex Tokens with ccusage

When OpenAI only shows a percentage, here is how I use ccusage CLI to approximate daily and monthly tokens and spend.

January 11, 2026 Read post
Tools 7 min

Auto Calendar: Converting Emails into Outlook Schedules

How I route weekly status emails through prompt-classified summaries and Microsoft Graph so collaborators subscribe to a clean Outlook calendar.

October 10, 2025 Read post
Tools 9 min Series

How I Switched from GitHub Copilot to ChatGPT Pro + Codex

What changed when I moved from inline suggestions to an agentic workflow -- GitHub sync, vibe coding, and the AGENTS.md + TODO.md playbook.

October 9, 2025 Read post
Tools 8 min Series

How I Built an AI Calendar Generator

First entry in the How I (Almost) AI Everything series -- mapping the workflow for an AI-assisted scheduling assistant that keeps fieldwork aligned.

October 7, 2025 Read post
Research note PDF

Measuring data and technology adoption in Chinese listed firms

An extended abstract using LLM-based MD&A text extraction to study data usage, technology adoption, and firm dynamics.

February 28, 2025 Read abstract
Teaching lab 6 min

Running reproducible econometrics sprints with Python & R

Adapting software engineering rituals -- code reviews and automated checks -- to student research projects without overwhelming them.

November 3, 2024 Read post
Working paper Summary

Pricing formats and bargaining in housing markets

A working paper with Haaris Mateen, Franklin Qian, and Ye Zhang on signalling effects of pricing formats in housing bargaining.

Student journeys 5 min

Building equitable mentorship programmes in economics

Designing office hours, peer review, and alumni mentoring so first-generation students thrive in quantitative research roles.

September 17, 2024 Read post
Publication

Industrial robots and factor income distribution

A published article with Minghai Zhou and Qiushi Wang on the distributional effects of industrial robot adoption.