A writer’s shelf, not a storefront

Books are where the longer arguments live. Each one started as something I couldn’t fit into a column.

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Hong Kong Belongs to Hongkongers (香港係香港人嘅): A Story of Identity, Resistance, and the Search for Home

Amazon #1 New Release. Mentioned in China Daily.

A clear-eyed reckoning with how a city came to be misunderstood, instrumentalized, and torn apart by forces far beyond its control. Written by an American who chose Hong Kong as his home.

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Profit Before People: When Corporations Knew It Was Dangerous and Sold It Anyway

Amazon #1 New Release.

What happens inside organizations when they discover a product is dangerous and keep selling it anyway. From thalidomide to the Ford Pinto to forever chemicals. A pattern that repeats across decades and industries.

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The Wound That Never Closed: Taiwan, China and the End of Strategic Ambiguity

For more than seventy years, we have pretended the Taiwan question can be managed indefinitely through ambiguity, arms sales, and diplomatic wordplay. That assumption is false.

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Terminal Failure: The Invisible War on Global Supply Chains

How logistics narratives about risk, national security, and “crisis” distort decision-making, and what that means for the systems the world depends on.


Series

The Mastery Series

Shorter, focused guides on subjects I kept getting asked about.

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Attraction Mastery: A Research-Based Guide to Finding Love

What actually works in dating, stripped of pickup artistry and self-help platitudes. A guide built on behavioral research, not vibes.

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Conflict Mastery

Most people avoid conflict until it explodes or engage it until everything breaks. There is a third option, and it is learnable.

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Negotiation Mastery

Every conversation where something is at stake is a negotiation. Most people lose before they realize it started.

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Digital Mastery

How to build a digital presence that works for you rather than against you, without becoming a content machine or selling your personality by the post.

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Swipe Mastery

Dating apps are not broken. The way most people use them is. A short, research-backed guide to getting the algorithms and the humans on your side.

All titles available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover.