Essays/News
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Flexport Released a Video Game. It Too Is Unprofitable.
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Flexport has released a tycoon game about building a global shipping empire. Real life at Flexport has been a little less elegantly managed.
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Sugar Daddy Law: Hong Kong’s Next Great Practice Area
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A sharp Hong Kong essay on a compensated-dating scam, fake lawyers, real desperation, and the economics that made the fantasy believable.
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Hong Kong Runs Immigration Like a Restaurant That Checks the Bill
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An immigration essay with airport side rooms and functioning paperwork. I live in a city where, if your visa expires, you cannot be here the…
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The Most Productive Thing I Ever Did Was Leave
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An office culture essay with fluorescent lighting and bad incentives. The first time I left a Hong Kong office at 6pm, nobody said a word.…
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Ten Things I Love About Hong Kong, Ranked By How Much I Will Complain About Their Absence When I Am Dead Or Living Elsewhere, Whichever Comes First
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An incomplete and emotionally compromised list. I have lived in Hong Kong for fifteen years. Fifteen years is long enough to stop calling yourself an…
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A Chinese Chair, a Chinese Auction, and One Actual Chinese Person
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How Ruth Survived Adams, Massachusetts, and Why She Keeps Going Back The housing estate where my wife Ruth and I live in Hong Kong, Mei…
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Fisk Road, a Sears Delivery, and the Toughest Kid in Adams
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A long-form remembrance of Pete Love, Mark Pizani, and one reckless Berkshire night that turned into a story about friendship, survival, and the way Adams…
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The T-Shirt Oracle of Mong Kok
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A bus ride, a slogan t-shirt, and a sharp meditation on what it means to “do better” in Hong Kong and in the town where…
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The Red Minibus: A Rite of Passage
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A sharp, funny essay on Hong Kong’s red minibus and what its chaos reveals about the city beneath the polished surface.