3 Things Caiwei Chen is into right now

I recently saw Doomers, a new play by Matthew Gasda about the aborted 2023 coup at OpenAI, here represented by a fictional company called MindMesh. The action is set almost entirely in a meeting room; the first act follows executives immediately after the firing of company CEO Seth (a stand-in for Sam Altman), and the second re-creates the board negotiations that determined his fate. It's a solid attempt to capture the zeitgeist of Silicon Valley's AI frenzy and the world's moral panic over artificial intelligence, but the rapid-fire, high-stakes exchanges mean it sometimes seems to get lost in its own verbosity. The vastness of Chinese cuisine defies easy categorization, and even in a city with no shortage of options, I often find myself cooking--not just to recapture something closer to home, but to create a home unlike one that ever existed. Recently, I've been experimenting with a Chinese take on the charcuterie board--pairing toasted steamed buns, called mantou, with furu, a fermented tofu spread that is sharp, pungent, and full of umami. I started sewing three years ago, but only in the past year have I begun making clothes from scratch.