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The Hero's Journey · Foreign Land · February 27, 2009 Vintage Chaos The Kowloon Report From Bangkok's user-friendly universe to Mong Kok's concrete forest: caffeine, density, Chinglish, monopoly money, location-neutral living, and the strange moment when the extraordinary becomes ordinary. Enter Kowloon Previous Field Ledger · Macau Mong Kok Concrete forest Hotel @nyware Chinglish From nation to notion Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Where was all that feng shui in sardine land's concrete forest? Greetings from the user-friendly universe of Bangkok to one of the most de...

The Kowloon & Macau Helium Report Winning at the Wynn in Macau Vintage chaos, Money Heaven, deep-stack poker, card lust, and the long argument between good decisions and lucky outcomes. Hong Kong → Macau → Bangkok February 2009 Hotel @nyware Field Notes Getting My Baht Outta Macau and Back To Bangkok This began as two reports: one from Kowloon, where the extraordinary had become ordinary, and another from Macau, where the poker rooms were learning No-Limit Hold’em in real time. Combined, they became one story about money, motion, dopamine, decision-making, and the danger of confusing a winning result with a winning decision. Part One / The Kowloon Report Vintage Chaos in the Concrete Forest Hong Kong: where density becomes weather. Greetings from the user-friendly universe of Bangkok to one...

The Hero's Journey · Trials · Bangkok Field School Reading the Game Before Playing the World The Theory of Poker on Khao San Road Bangkok became the study hall: David Sklansky in hand, cash money on the table, birthday beer in the background, and Khao San Road supplying the friction that turns borrowed theory into personal judgment. Enter the Field School The Urban Monk on the Hong Kong Express Khao San Road The Theory of Poker Cash money Birthday beer Process over outcome Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Catching up on my reading—David Sklansky's The Theory of Poker —in Bangkok. There are ...