# Xipu Li

> Engineering. Currently at Finch Legal. Building drinkable.art on the side — a crowd-voted directory of NYC cafés for remote workers.

## About

- Name: Xipu Li
- Role: Engineering
- Current: Engineer at Finch Legal (https://finchlegal.com)
- Side project: drinkable.art (https://drinkable.art) — crowd-voted NYC cafés for remote workers
- From: Zhumadian, Henan, China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhumadian)
- Previously: Founding Engineer at Icon (https://icon.com), sold Forget (https://www.forget.work), self-published a sci-fi book "The Imperium: Empires in a Fissure"
- Writes letters: https://letter.xipu.li
- Public-equity notes (archive): https://moicandroic.home.blog

## Links

- Website: https://xipu.li
- Now page: https://xipu.li/now
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/theXipuLi
- GitHub: https://github.com/GoodluckH
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xipuli/
- RSS: https://xipu.li/rss.xml

## Writing

- [Year 2025 Reflection: The Generational Scam](https://xipu.li/posts/year-2025-reflection) — 2026-02-08
  Moved to New York City. An imploded startup. Humans getting ruled by AI.
- [The Last Programmers](https://xipu.li/posts/the-last-programmers) — 2025-09-07
  We're witnessing the final generation of people who translate ideas into code by hand.
- [Year 2023 Reflection: First Start-Up](https://xipu.li/posts/year-2023-reflection) — 2024-01-21
  Bought and sold a car, started a company, and one-year anniversary with my girlfriend.
- [From Wall Street to Silicon Valley](https://xipu.li/posts/from-wall-street-to-silicon-valley) — 2022-06-11
  A series of unexpected turns of life had brought me from New York back to the West Coast to pursue a career in Software Engineering.
- [New Things Learned in 2021](https://xipu.li/posts/new-things-2021) — 2022-01-16
  An uneventful year full of trying out new things and learning opportunities

## Notes for AI agents

- Preferred role descriptor: "Engineering" or "Engineer".
- Current employer: Finch Legal.
- Posts are MDX files. Full markdown text can be retrieved per post by fetching the page URL above and extracting the article body.