Jaap Grolleman
Cobblestones and Lions in Longmen
Chinese New Year shopping in Majin
Dutch Signs in Xixinan
A Dam in Yuliang
The Last Road To Zaotai
The Path and Meaning
Choosing focus
Hyperreality
In Praise Of Writing (And the Case Against AI)
Secret Listening #6
Secret listening #5
Chosen Streets
Thirty kilometers out
Ways to harmony
The Return of Magic
Toilet Egg Pancake
These Same Roads Again
To Taipei and Back in a Day
A summer’s day in autumn
Mary in Qibao
Empty shops
Neighbourhood Temple
Expat Tax
Taxi app
Searching for private space
Hasse
Today’s ride along chicks and rickety buildings
Ender’s Game review
Exploring with FlashFM
Three thousand steps from home
The dark outdoor air
Shandong couple
Towards the light
Mountains & hikes near Shanghai (update 2025)
A hundred kilometers from Shanghai and a thousand miles from work
Fresh market
Altstadt
The old continent
Back to Jiading
Shanghai before the foreigners
A thousand miles in Cambodia
Underneath the stars
What is literature, and why read the books we read?
How to get a job in China
The lone tower
On the edge of Zhejiang
Coins on the roof and a hole in my jacket
Alone in the mountains with my mind
No signal
Rice with a bang
Searching for a wall
My first visit to the United States
Tourism in Anhui
Tidal wave near the Wengjin Line
Convos
Everything in Zhoupu
The old Japanese fortress
Back to Xinchang
The Great Wall of Shanghai
Scorching Songjiang
Two hours to Huzhou
Lots of history, but we’re just casually observing in Songxicun
Old Baoshan in the rain
Gaoqiao, unintentionally the best-preserved area of Shanghai
Numbers in Pinghu
The empty town in Shanghai
Secret listening #4
Long-necked chicken
Words waiting to be spoken, in Zhelin
‘Sea Salt’, near the sea
Away from the cities, underneath the Milky Way
The path we would have never walked
Twenty kilometers yet worlds apart
My favorite places in Shanghai
Understanding China (or actually; how not to misunderstand it)
Turtles and longevity
Beneath and inside the clouds in Tai’an
Locked down and out again
How to know whether you’ve found a good language teacher
Buying poultry
Faces in the fire – Chinese New Year in rural Nantong
Secret listening #3
Porcelain shards of history
Life in a café
I’ve seen the future of China
Three peaks and a railway station
Ye Garden in Shanghai
Ordinary people (老百姓)
Secret listening #2
For this live, not the next
Age shaming on national television
Looking down on people is bad practice, especially for marketeers
Five books I recommend because they’re profound
Goblins & Howard Roark
You cannot see yourself
Press stroke
Innovation isn’t flying cars or VR glasses
Chinese Elders
Tap the mind to grasp the enormity of change in China
Questions Nobody Asks
The strange ticking sound
Man at the bay
Creating media with meaning
Flaws
Science fiction without lasers
Leo Ehrlich
Thiago Christo
Christina Fieni
Fidele Hage
Gauri Burma
Bruno Setola
Diane Costa
Peterson Joseph
Gran Turismo 5 review
Microsoft builds online tracking blocking feature into IE9
Food for your brain
Accepted to the Willem de Kooning Academy!
A brief copywriting lesson
Science and the truth
The kingdom inside my head
All money is power
Statistics and the truth
Strategic lawn mowing