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…5d ago5d ago
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
Monet, Hemingway, and Wong Kar-Wai: Sky with no ceilingDo I write good short stories? Depends on who you ask, but I would say that they aren’t special yet. Some might say that comparing them to…Dec 20, 2024Dec 20, 2024
Maturity, women, and half-baked goods.Nearly five years ago now, I met a friend of a friend, on a completely chance encounter: both of us were visiting from out of town. She had…Dec 14, 2024Dec 14, 2024
Fiction: The Picture of Dorian GreyThis was the best Instagram post he had ever made, thought David to himself. He had captioned it “Ca va comme ci comme ca,” and it was…Dec 5, 2024Dec 5, 2024
One last election essayThe 2024 US elections are done and over with. The news cycle has moved on. No one wants to hear about it anymore. Yet I want to organize my…Nov 28, 2024Nov 28, 2024
Means, median, and media: You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.In a popular corollary attributed to motivational speaker Jim Rohn, everyone is the average of the five people they spend the most time…Nov 22, 2024Nov 22, 2024
Bucket List: Updated.A couple of months ago I wrote about an old bucket list I had found with thirty-five items on it. I had written it when I was in my…Nov 15, 2024Nov 15, 2024
