“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. A story that revolves around a tradition in a small town – “The Lottery”, which, through a purely random mechanism of arbitrary selection, arrives at a particular ind ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-14
For Hong Kong to be truly back, we must go maskless – now. Dropping the inane mask requirement is a necessary but insufficient part of Hong Kong’s trek towards normalisation. The following makes the c ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-14
... nist of a Wong Kar Wai movie, or a sign-spinning virtuoso. Yet in this life, she is a middle-aged, frustrated housewife – trying her very best to adapt and learn the very skills she needs to protect h ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
A few months back I sat down with a couple of friends from a leading university in Hong Kong – and we had a terrific, electrifying chat about how we could bring Effective Altruism (EA) to the city. Ma ...More
EJ Insight2023-02-03
What makes a good teacher? How do we measure the successes of an educator? Some say, it’s to do with the number of A*s and As (or 7s, 8s, and 9s) these teachers churn out. Others suggest that it’s ref ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-27
11 people. 11 lives lost at the hands of a shooter. Another 10 wounded. A shooting that occurred in a city known for its large Asian population, coinciding with the Lunar New Year festivities. One amo ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-26
A nation that trumpets its own success, that heralds its ostensibly inevitable trajectory towards greatness, and that frames its relations with competitors and rivals as one defined by a moral hierarc ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-17
I was invited to address the Harvard-Sciences Po Conference last Saturday; the convenors had wanted a keynote on the intersection of media, technology, and geopolitics – and thus I obliged, with a for ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
A specter haunts the way we think about the youth in our city. The specter is a fundamental failure to take their agency seriously. The most obvious means by which this failure manifests, of course, i ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-06
... 總裁沈望傅（Sim Wong Hoo）周三離世，享年67歲。作為科技界領軍人物之一，沈望傅以研發Sound B ...全文
今日信報財經新聞StartupBeat 創科鬥室2023年01月06日
One would be forgiven for thinking that the above is a most mundane proposition. After all, it is clearly true that geopolitics is a universal, all-encompassing, and ubiquitous phenomenon. Yet this st ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-05
A quick recap – there are four propositions that best encapsulate 2022: First, that geopolitics matters – and we are transitioning into an era of global geopolitical flux; Second, that governance matt ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-30
2022 is perhaps best summarised through four core propositions: First, that geopolitics matters – and we are transitioning into an era of global geopolitical flux; Second, that governance matters – an ...More
EJ Insight2022-12-29
