Essays/News
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C.H. Robinson’s Orchard
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The Orchard In 1905, in a town on the Red River where the Dakota wind bent the grass flat and the railroad tracks were still…
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The Ladder, the Wrong Wall, and the Kid Who Couldn’t Sit Still
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On credentials, accidental careers, and why a man who once impersonated a department store at two in the morning has no business telling anyone what…
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DSV’s Convoy
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On cooperatives, digestion, and what happens when the company Leif Tullberg built measures its progress in the people it no longer needs. In 1976, in…
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The Elbow, the Cork, and the Woman at the Front Desk
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On MLMs, Mei Foo, and why you should never open champagne above a wedding. I am sitting in the Cathay lounge at Hong Kong International…
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The Song
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On alphabets, tempo, and the particular arrogance of fixing something that was never broken. I heard the song wrong. Not wrong in the way you…
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Kuehne+Nagel’s Loom
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On July 1, 1890, in the port city of Bremen, where the Weser River runs to the sea and the dockside air smelled of cotton…
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Travels With My Wife: Part III — Domestic Incidents
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For those of you following along, this is the third installment in what has become, against all planning and good judgment, a series. The first…
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What Nobody Tells You About the People Who Killed Democracy in Hong Kong
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I’ve been circling these questions for a while now. I’ve written about life in Hong Kong as a lawyer who can read the Basic Law…
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Ten Things I Hate About Hong Kong, Ranked By How Loudly I Will Deny Hating Them When Someone From Somewhere Else Agrees With Me
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An incomplete and emotionally compromised list, written by the same man who wrote the love letter, because love and complaints are the same thing if…