19 Oct 20 Monday Briefing
(bumper crop of things I found interesting because I missed last week's)
Last Monday found me enjoying a rare holiday (staycation) in my hometown. To make up for last week, I’m sharing a “lucky 8” for this Monday.
How many more of such stories will emerge by the end of this year?
A woeful tale of incompetence, overconfidence, politicking and structural industry inefficiencies – is this the ultimate zombie airport?
Hard questions for any company to answer in these knee-jerk cancellation times.
What happens when it all starts to fall apart?
It would be far more dangerous to believe that China is not ambitious enough to muscle its way across the world.
"This is the programming of power. Encoded in every administrator, compiled in the hearts of the people, waiting for a Son of Heaven with root access to take up the command line, and make the whole system run."
Adab sounds a bit like 禮
I've often said that the F&B / hospitality industry is one of the last bastions of acceptable misogyny and chauvinism.