Last Friday saw Hong Kong hit by one of the worst, if not downright the worst, rainstorms it has endured in recorded history. 158.1mm of rain was recorded at the Observatory headquarters between 11pm ...More
EJ Insight2023-09-11
To understand a country fully, requires us to understand its government, its economy, its people, and the underlying propositions that a) no country is identical, and b) no country is a monolith. The ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-31
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an increasingly ubiquitous field of study and subject of discussion and investigation across a variety of fields: from computer science to digital marketing and commerc ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-30
In February 1950, then Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (a junior senator from Wisconsin) declared that there were 205 card-carrying Communists employed in the US Department of State. With irreverent noncha ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-28
“The world, as we know it, is becoming increasingly multi-polar.” This is a proposition oft-trotted out to describe or highlight the significance of events such as the ongoing BRICS Summit in Johannes ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-25
The 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) included - for the first time in history - burnout as an occupational phenomenon. ICD-11 defines burnout as “a syndrome conce ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-14
In conversations with friends and colleagues I often hear the question, “What do the youth make of this?”, or “What, really, do the youth want?” As I have argued elsewhere in my assessment of events r ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-11
I had the pleasure of watching ‘Barbie’ - by myself - earlier this week. Truth be told, I went in with relatively low expectations. I have a general aversion to movie hypes and hyped-up movies, and ha ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-09
A lifeless blob, a landmass of shredded tissues held together by a briny coagulant, a wreck crawling with mealworms. A whale carcass was found earlier this week in Hong Kong’s eastern waters. Expert ...More
EJ Insight2023-08-08
The contemporary individual is likely to lead a much longer life, with substantially greater material abundance, a wider range of places to which they can travel, a more stable and harmonious family l ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-31
In thinking about how we learn best, I have come to the (plausibly premature) view that learning is best conducted through a ‘T’ paradigm - one that combines the vertical strip (delving deeply into a ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-28
When Kundera penned The Unbearable Lightness of Being in the early 1980s, he was living in France whilst the ossified Soviet Union was crumbling under the weight of its successive generations of gento ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-21
We’ve all heard the familiar saying by now, “With great power comes great responsibility”. What had originated, as far as I’m aware, in a Spiderman movie (a line quipped by Aunt May to Peter Parker), ...More
EJ Insight2023-07-20
Do we possess the freedom to think? There are really two questions embedded within this. The first, concerns the normative. Do we possess a reasonable claim, or liberty (both moralised concepts) to th ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-23
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China over the weekend of June 17 - 18. His visit saw him engage in extensive talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi, a ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-21
He hails from Phoenix, Arizona. In 2016, he voted for a third-party candidate. He felt neither Clinton nor Trump was a fitting choice for the presidency. He was half-tempted to write in Mitt Romney. I ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-08
The events that have unfolded over the past few days, no doubt have weighed on the minds of many of us. Many of us, qua Hong Kongers. Qua citizens who love this city dearly. And que folks who may pers ...More
EJ Insight2023-06-07
The most challenging thing I ever had to learn in life, was to say No. Here in Hong Kong, we are told from a young age that to succeed, we must ‘try our best’, and to be the best at each and everythin ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-31
Essayist George Santayana once quipped the above, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” At face value, this aphorism is rather apt and intuitive. After all, history sheds li ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-24
How should we come to understand success? There exists a plethora of metrics out there. One’s wealth and net worth, tracked approximately by one’s income and occupational class. One’s so-called ‘socia ...More
EJ Insight2023-05-23
