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Congratulations…
I got an email from LinkedIn, to congratulate me on being in the top 10% of all the profile pages, ranked by views. Only trouble is, 10% of 200 million is still quite a lot. “I’m one in 20 million” doesn’t have quite the right ring to it.
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Don’t do race jokes
When I moved to Singapore, one thing that I noticed was that it felt as though a lot more material was based on racial stereotypes. I think that’s partly because the scene was more homogenous in Hong Kong: apart from Vivek Mahbubani, when I started going to the local club the comedians were almost all […]
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Short stories
Every so often, somebody will say that Hemingway wrote the greatest short story ever, in only 6 words: For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn. Well, I wonder if we can get a bit shorter: Check the safety, Ernie! There you go: biography, dispatched in 4 words. If you didn’t like that, perhaps you can seek […]
