ESSAYS/NEWS
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I Have Had Twenty HSBC Relationship Managers. I Have Never Spoken to One.
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This city has more loyalty programs than actual loyalty. I decided to count mine. I have banked with HSBC for fifteen years. In that time,…
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The Stiff Upper Lip Is a Myth. Hong Kong Is the Real Thing.
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Britain printed a poster about keeping calm. Hong Kong just kept going, and never got around to putting it on a mug. There’s a poster…
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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…
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I’m a Lawyer. I Still Haven’t Figured Out Hong Kong’s Rules.
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I have lived in Hong Kong for close to two decades. I still do not understand Hong Kong’s rules. Not the laws. The laws are…
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Some Assembly Required
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IKEA is a furniture store. In Hong Kong, it is something closer to a pilgrimage. I need to be honest about something. I went to…
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Of Penises and Parishes: How Two Cities 8,000 Miles Apart Found Common Ground in the Most Uncomfortable Way Possible
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On penises and parishes, cultural differences, unlikely similarities, and the enduring ability of the human phallus to generate scandal on both sides of the Pacific.…
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The Cardboard Grannies of Hong Kong
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In a city obsessed with efficiency, they are the most efficient of all. Hong Kong will sell you a story about itself. The skyline. The…
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Hong Kong Was a 15-Minute City Before the Rest of the World Knew What to Call It
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In 2015, a Franco-Colombian professor named Carlos Moreno proposed a radical idea at the COP21 climate conference in Paris: what if you could access everything…
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The King of Fruits
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On durian, marriage, and the things you learn to live with when you love someone whose nose works differently than yours. My wife loves durian,…