https://cache.bwang.io/ Benson Wang's blog and reading room: essays and interactive, data-driven articles. en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:48:23 +0000 https://cache.bwang.io/token-playbook.html https://cache.bwang.io/token-playbook.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:48:23 +0000 A simple tokenmaxxing playbook. Briefly talk about how to increase token throughput (queues, fan-out, more context, loops) to generate hi... https://cache.bwang.io/some-projects.html https://cache.bwang.io/some-projects.html Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:26:07 +0000 Disclaimer: all the projects mentioned in this post were created two months ago, maybe a month ago. This post was written around that tim... https://cache.bwang.io/practical-poker.html https://cache.bwang.io/practical-poker.html Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:43:34 +0000 Across playing low stakes live and microstakes online, I have won somewhere around 15k in profit playing poker. I used to have a lengthi... https://cache.bwang.io/ecom-experiments.html https://cache.bwang.io/ecom-experiments.html Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:36:25 +0000 E-commerce is growing exponentially. I frequently see overnight successes of such companies through viral marketing; globalization and so... https://cache.bwang.io/why-crypto.html https://cache.bwang.io/why-crypto.html Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:46:22 +0000 I’ve been getting some FOMO and mixed thoughts on BTC. This is just a quick rundown to help me think through whether I should invest. Th... https://cache.bwang.io/growing-peppers.html https://cache.bwang.io/growing-peppers.html Fri, 19 Jan 2024 02:36:41 +0000 I just wanted to grow something. Peppers are pretty cool; they are pretty easy to grow, they self-pollinate, requires little space, ar... https://cache.bwang.io/book-reviews.html https://cache.bwang.io/book-reviews.html Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:29:41 +0000 Here are some quick takeaways of some books I read this year. Million Dollar Weekend – Noah Hagan Nice lessons: Always ask for what you... https://cache.bwang.io/wasted-time.html https://cache.bwang.io/wasted-time.html Tue, 10 Jan 2023 02:53:42 +0000 I made a tool to use to save hands and give a strategy on how to play different hands. This project will no longer exists. Demo: https:/... https://cache.bwang.io/trading-automation.html https://cache.bwang.io/trading-automation.html Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:38:40 +0000 I spent 90% of my time doing stuff that I ended up scrapping. Products like Zapier are restrictive (no external libs, at least at the ti... https://cache.bwang.io/api-in-rust.html https://cache.bwang.io/api-in-rust.html Sun, 23 May 2021 23:30:21 +0000 After some notes in rust, I created a rust app in rust deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Here are some of the tooling/stack I ... https://cache.bwang.io/cicd-on-gcp.html https://cache.bwang.io/cicd-on-gcp.html Wed, 16 Dec 2020 02:20:52 +0000 \[This post was originally written in 2020.\] This post is dedicated primarily on making a cicd pipeline, a pretty generic boilerplate p... https://cache.bwang.io/nomad-and-waypoint.html https://cache.bwang.io/nomad-and-waypoint.html Tue, 11 Aug 2020 01:03:32 +0000 This is just me trying out Nomad and Waypoint. This post was originally wrote in 2020. nomad Nomad acts as an online server/system to m... https://cache.bwang.io/reading/klefki/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/klefki/index.html A field guide and seven-phase playbook for using Claude Code as a security copilot on authorized engagements — driving scanners, reviewing source, writing proof-of-concept exploits, and drafting the report, all under a permission model you control. https://cache.bwang.io/reading/poker-pros/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/poker-pros/index.html A ledger of high-stakes tournament poker: tracking the biggest names' net profit and loss to see who is actually winning at the top of the game. https://cache.bwang.io/reading/spacs/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/spacs/index.html A plain-English guide to SPACs: what blank-check companies are, who actually makes money on them, and how to tell a survivable deal from a doomed one. https://cache.bwang.io/reading/ipos-spacex/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/ipos-spacex/index.html An on-the-record forecast for the SpaceX (SPCX) IPO, plus the evidence behind it: the factors that predict post-IPO returns and how US IPOs from 2022 through 2026 have performed relative to their offer prices. https://cache.bwang.io/reading/making-an-iphone/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/making-an-iphone/index.html An interactive guide to the iPhone supply chain: which company makes each component, where in the world it's made, what it costs, and how it all gets shipped. https://cache.bwang.io/reading/world-cup-2026/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/world-cup-2026/index.html A live forecast for the 2026 World Cup that simulates the tournament 100,000 times — anchored to the betting market and calibrated on 25 years of results — to estimate each team's chance of lifting the trophy. https://cache.bwang.io/reading/watches/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/watches/index.html How luxury watches beat retail: the mechanics of scarcity, allocation, and waitlists that push models like Rolex and Patek Philippe to premiums on the secondary market. https://cache.bwang.io/reading/wine/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/wine/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/real-estate/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/real-estate/index.html What actually predicts US residential real-estate returns — the economic and demographic factors that move home prices, and how much each one really explains. https://cache.bwang.io/reading/ncaa/index.html https://cache.bwang.io/reading/ncaa/index.html A data-driven bracket forecast for the 2026 NCAA men's basketball tournament: how the model rates each team and simulates March Madness to estimate every school's odds of cutting down the nets.