Essays/News
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The Same Playbook. The Same Shareholders. The Same People Paying the Price.
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A typhoon is heading toward Hong Kong this weekend. Good time to say what needs to be said before the signal goes up and the…
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The System
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The ritual has steps. Everyone who has ever lived in a small town in Massachusetts has stood behind that woman at the convenience store. You…
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My Wife Has Notes
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I wrote a post about Hong Kong. I ranked ten things I love about it and I put them in order and I called the…
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The Longest Ride in the City
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The Longest Ride in the City The Central–Mid-Levels escalator is eight hundred meters long. It carries seventy-eight thousand people a day. It bisects thirteen streets,…
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The Most Expensive Computer Error in Freight History Wasn’t AI. It Was a Settlement Calculator.
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A trial lawyer’s view of why the most expensive computer error in freight history was not AI, but a settlement calculator that missed what juries…
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The Thirty-Seven Steps and the Wooden Clog
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A reflective essay on shoes, identity, marriage, and the selves we carry between Adams and Hong Kong.
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Ten Things I Love About Boston That Survived Fifteen Years in Hong Kong
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Things I Notice Ten Things I Love About Boston An incomplete and geographically divided list. A few weeks ago I wrote a list of the…
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The Bar Exam Finally Tried to Kill Someone and the Proctors Said Keep Writing
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A sharp, furious essay on Mary Jane Jung’s bar exam collapse, the proctors who told candidates to keep writing, and what that says about the…
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Washington’s Bar Exam Ran on Wi-Fi and Somehow That Was Not Even the Worst Part
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A licensing system built on stress, money, and a wireless network that folded on contact.