ESSAYS/NEWS
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The Screenshot That Never Expires: Muhammad Ali and the Courage to Become Someone Else
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There is a WhatsApp group from 2015 that a friend of mine will not let die. Forty-one members. Nine of them have left Hong Kong.…
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The Hong Kong Courtroom That Should Not Exist
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The news came on a Wednesday morning in September, which is when most things that matter in Hong Kong happen, on a weekday, while everyone…
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Hong Kong’s Port Is Quietly Sinking Even as Its Trade Numbers Soar
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Container throughput fell 3% in the first half of 2026 while merchandise exports surged nearly 40%. The divergence tells you everything about what Hong Kong…
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The Ink, the Autoclave, and the Beacon on My Arm
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On Daytona Beach, Jack Nicholson’s face, and why a man who cannot read Chinese carries a tamper-proof legal numeral on one arm and two sets…
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The Company We Were, and the Company We’ve Become
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What follows was written by someone who still works at Expeditors. They asked me to publish it because the company has made clear what happens…
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Nobody Goes to Their Grave Wishing They Had Worked More
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On Uncle Carmine, corporate loyalty, and the fact that nobody at your funeral is going to talk about wishing they had worked more. My Uncle…
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Hong Kong’s 70% Problem: How AI Is Turning Asia’s Cargo Hub Into a One-Product Economy
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Extraordinary trade numbers mask an extraordinary concentration risk in Hong Kong Exports, and the logistics implications run far deeper than headline growth suggests. When a…
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Interior Crocodile Alligator. I Drive a Chevrolet Movie Theater.
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Ruth told me I need a real job. She said it the way she says most things, which is to say while reading something on…
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The Machines Are Coming and I Still Can’t Order at a Cha Chaan Teng
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The CEO of Anthropic just published an essay admitting that AI is building the next generation of AI by itself. He called it recursive self-improvement…