Essays/News
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The Courthouse Across the Street
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There is a building on Holden Street in North Adams, Massachusetts, that has had exactly two clerk-magistrates in forty-eight years. Mark Trottier ran it from…
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The Raised Hand
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In the West, getting a waiter’s attention is a performance of restraint, but in Hong Kong restaurant culture, the dynamics change significantly. You sit. You…
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Fit, Fast, and 5,500 Fewer: The Real Cost of C.H. Robinson’s AI Bet
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David Bozeman‘s AI-driven transformation has delivered Wall Street a dream. The 5,500 people who no longer work there due to the C.H. Robinson layoffs got…
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The Hong Kong Taxi: A Meditation on Rejection
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Reflections on Hong Kong taxi culture. I have been rejected by women. I have been rejected by employers. I have been rejected by graduate schools,…
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The Other Italian on the Other Mountain
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On Alessandro Pasetti, the man who handed me a platform, and the fact that Italians cannot help themselves. There are two kinds of Italians. There…
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The Pantheon of the 72 Bus
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Once in Paris, Ruth and I went to a French restaurant. I told the waiter I was American. He said we can’t all be perfect.…
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Go East, Young Man
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There is a kid in my building. Twenty-six, maybe twenty-seven. American. I know this because I heard him on the phone in the lobby last…
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The Renumbering
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Or: How I Proposed a Data Center in Adams, Massachusetts, and Discovered That the Street Numbers Were Just the Beginning I should have remembered the…
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The Seventh Month
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On ghosts, property values, and the woman at the desk in Orlando who was not supposed to be there. The dead walk among us. In…