The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonBenjamin was a curious child. He was born at 41 weeks on the second of January, at nearly nine pounds according to the hospital records…4d ago4d ago
Chekhov’s Gun: flattering the viewer versus subverting expectationsRussian playwright Anton Chekhov was quoted as saying “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it…Feb 20Feb 20
The charms of early FitzgeraldA month ago, a friend of mine asked me which book or film character I associated myself the most with. What a question! I told them that I…Feb 14Feb 14
MirrorThere is a Chinese idiom, 门当户对, that literally means “doorframes of equal heights”. The expression means that for a good romantic…Feb 7Feb 7
RawdogJeremey was sitting in 38K on hour ten of a fourteen-hour flight to Sydney. His eUpgrade didn’t go through the one time it really mattered…Jan 30Jan 30
Expensive, popular, and classy: the impossible intersection for luxury.Imagine a Venn diagram with three circles representing three sets: There is one that is expensive, luxuriously so, whereby the incremental…Jan 24Jan 24
Book Review: Islands in the StreamI wrote half this review, along with many notes, shortly after reading, around three months prior to publication. I found it agonizingly…Jan 16Jan 16
Evaluating HobbiesRecently, by way of the extended-Asian-American-metro-grapevine, it has come to my attention that someone called one of my friends boring…Jan 10Jan 10
New Year’s Resolutions: Reflection and ImprovementI have listed New Year’s Resolutions on paper and left them on my desk for three years now. Of course, many of them go unachieved. Life…Jan 2Jan 2
