Larry's Weekly Newsletter - September 27, 2026
Hello friends!
Today is Day 80 of my write-every-day-so-I-don't-forget-to-write-in-the-age-of-ai streak. I've very much enjoyed the writing and getting emails and fun conversations in parking lots with those of you that read them!
Below are my posts from the past week.
Thanks for coming along on my journey!
Yours,
Larry
The Tesla Semi hype is pure cope
TechCrunch writes “Tesla finally moves to electrify trucking after a decade of work and delays.” The article was about how Tesla started production of the Tesla Semi at a factory that might one day be able to make up to 50,000 trucks a year after promising to do this
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Teething pains
I was about to begin writing a post about Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis project when I was interrupted by a very unhappy crying baby. Our son is getting his first teeth and boy is it painful. Many of us will remember the discomfort for the early period of our
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Hong Kong has no weekend
Today is Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong, but it isn’t a public holiday. The public holiday for Mid-Autumn Festival, which is celebrated in the evening, is officially called “The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival” and, as the name suggests, is celebrated tomorrow. The only catch
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Large dogs have no place in cities
Dogs have been in the news a lot recently in Hong Kong...mostly for attacking people. In the past few days, a 27-year-old woman riding a bicycle was mauled and killed by a pack of three dogs. Last month, a 33-year-old woman was killed by a
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Against collective guilt
An organization I’m a member of in Hong Kong recently hosted a joint event with a national chamber of commerce and it caused a bit of a kerfuffle. A portion of our membership had ethical or moral problems with conflicts that said nation was or has been involved with.
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A multipolar global financial system
If you grew up American, as I did, you probably think only in US dollars and operate in a Visa/MC/Amex world. That’s how the global financial system worked for decades. But times are changing. The US financial system declining in relative importance and is no longer the
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Baby’s stretching & nature vs nurture
One of the things that’s amazing about being a parent is seeing which abilities babies are naturally born with vs those that they figure out on their vs those that they learn from watching other people. We get to make our own observations and draw our own conclusions about
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