If you are managing a team, and are not in 2003, and need to ask for an email summary of what each person did last week, then there is a significant problem and it’s not with the employees.

Still looking for contracts peeps in these parts. Here's my blog post about that old chestnut, the notion that it's risky to deviate from "tested" contract language. www.adamsdrafting.com/for-the-nth-...

Watched the new Bob Dylan biopic with some friends tonight and the topic came up of who is our generation’s Dylan The (surprising to me) consensus was Sufjan Stevens

China has a reputation of having a big data surveillance system with an overarching system of monitoring everyone in the country But here’s how I spent my afternoon in Shanghai:

Shanghai Snapshot - deliveries come in from trucks, and are sorted into piles and left on the sidewalk, probably thousands on this block ready for the final delivery I imaging in other counties these would be ripe for looting, but not here

Shanghai Friendship Store, 353 Nanjing Road, c.1958-1960 (Shanghai Municipal Library)

China's Communist Party must ‘turn the knife inward’ to eliminate problems of discipline, including corruption, President Xi Jinping said, a new call to hunt down corrupt officials and those who corrupt them reut.rs/3VC5oMv

Breakfast with the Asia boss of a large advertising agency: "20 years ago we employed more than 300 foreigners in China. Now it's three and I'm one of them." They have more than a thousand employees in China.

An (incomplete) list of actors who played Bob Dylan in movies: Timothee Chalamet Richard Gere Christian Bale Heath Ledger Hayden Christensen Cate Blanchett Ben Wishaw Is there any other person who has been played by so many A listers?

Bluesky now appears to be blocked in China

Tonight at dinner with a friend here in Shanghai they asked me about Bluesky and then told me that the uptick was from China - because it’s the only big outside (of China) social media not blocked in China and so normal Chinese people can access it. Interesting to see how long that will last…

One of the biggest lies of my undergraduate education was preparing to use the phrase “false dichotomy” in most of my everyday conversations

Here because of @mmasnick.bsky.social and his great interview with Ed Zitron about the mission and system setup at @bsky.app podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

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