politics
Governments have two types of policies they can use: carrots and sticks. Carrots include things such as handouts, subsidies and other preferential incentives. Sticks are things like taxes, tariffs, regulation, benefit reductions and restrictions. The challenge for Western politicians is that carrots get them elected and sticks get them unemployed.
hong kong
Hong Kong can be divided into two groups of people: people that frequently travel to the Chinese mainland and those that don't. You can recognize the latter group because when asked about going to the mainland, they will usually make a comment like "I haven't
philosophy
"The efficient way is the wrong way. Like if you're going to do the accepted, efficient, what McKinsey will tell you to do [way], you are going to get accepted, normal, efficient results. If you want outlier results, you need to take the hard way." This
philosophy
I've been thinking about this X post from Hannah Rosenberg that I saw last night before I went to sleep (yes, I know pre-sleep X use is not ideal!): People do not experience our intentions, they experience our actions. Intentions are like emotions, they are wildly important
hong kong
Hong Kong has a reputation as a crowded city with dense housing. People and buildings are packed in like sardines. What if I told you out of Hong Kong's 1,119 square kilometers of land, residential housing only takes up 81 square kilometers of that. Hong Kong'
hong kong
I was in Zhuhai the past two nights. This evening, I drove back home to Hong Kong. Two weeks ago, we were in Macau on baby's first vacation. For those unfamiliar with the local geography, Macau and Zhuhai are adjacent to each other on the opposite side of
ethics
When I checked in at a hotel in China last night, the employee behind the desk excitedly told me that her hotel was now running a special free breakfast promotion. All I needed to do was to give the hotel a 5 star review on whatever platform I used to
immigration
I had breakfast with an old friend from Twitter that I met in person for the first time today. (Btw...if you're not meeting cool people on Twitter and hanging out with them in real life, you're doing using it wrong!) He is American and, naturally,
hong kong
I was eating dinner at a fast-casual restaurant in Hong Kong last night when I was pleasantly reminded of the energy, hustle and efficiency that I love about this city. The restaurant was the kind where you sit down and order from a printed menu and are given a
technology
Yesterday, at the DHH-meetup in Shenzhen, the MC asked DHH what people like himself "who are not developers" should learn about their vibe coded Omarchy extensions when they don't work. DHH responded that they shouldn't need to know how it works. I understand
day-100
I attended the GOSIM Shenzhen 2026 open source conference in Shenzhen today. The headline event for me was DHH's Omarchy talk and the post-conference Omarchy meetup. They didn't disappoint. DHH can be a polarizing figure, but whatever side of his opinions you fall on, one
philosophy
When I joined my sailing club in Hong Kong, my seconder, when signing my application in support of my membership, said to me "clubs run on trust." He was talking about the fact that good clubs work and continue to exist because there is an element of trust