ESSAYS/NEWS
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Hong Kong Needs a Warrant to Search Your Phone. The US Doesn’t.
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The alert showed up on my phone the way these things always do in Hong Kong, forwarded into three different group chats within an hour,…
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The Pool Will Still Be Warm
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On inches, arrivals, and what you buy with the years you didn’t waste. There is a speech in a movie about football that has nothing…
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The Comfort Playbook: How Cathay Pacific and Banyan Tree Turned Their Failures Into My Problem
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Or, How Two Corporations Taught Me That Indifference Is a Business Strategy As many of you already know, I grew up in Adams, Massachusetts, a…
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The Five-Hour Circle
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Hong Kong’s greatest luxury isn’t the skyline. It’s what’s reachable within the five-hour circle from the airport. I’m writing this from Bali, which is a…
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The Suitcase of Bricks
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There is a moment, and I can tell you the exact moment, when I stopped believing that my way of doing things was the correct…
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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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Hong Kong to Tokyo in Five Hours. Nine Hundred Years in a Single Cup of Sake
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A sharp, personal essay on why Japan preserves the small, human texture of city life while Hong Kong keeps pricing it out of existence.