Decision Science

Sea Years / Maritime Field Notes Trials The Jones Act & Laws of the Sea The rules of the sea become real when the gangway closes, the ship sails, and the next port is no longer yours to choose. See Full Image Kings Point Pride of America STCW Passenger Vessel Services Act Flags of Convenience Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Visiting the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, I ran a few laps around the track. My pace was like Clapton's “Layla” — the slower, raw, heartfelt unplugged version. Mission accomplished. I had been a one-man National Geographic on that everywhere trip. Cancel m...

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 · 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...