This is a part of my series on freelancing in China. For more articles on the subject, click here. I recently had to cancel a contract with a freelance client, which is something I hadn’t had to do for a…
Travel Tips: Yokohama
Yokohama doesn’t have the crowds of Tokyo, the quiet charm of Kyoto, nor the frenetic buzz of Osaka. But it does have the sea. There’s a beautiful port and the remnants of Yohokama’s former past as the window into Japanese…
UX / UI Toolkit Part 1: How to Create a Visual Identity from Scratch
The key to creating a visual identity is to get something on paper (or rather on the computer screen). It’s okay if the first version of your logo has been built with a logo generator; it’s okay if the first…
Swedish Vanilla Almond Cake
Dave and I got engaged in Stockholm, sitting on a park bench and overlooking the water of Gamla Stan. It was a biting cold October afternoon in Sweden, so as soon as I said yes, we stopped at a café…
February 2018 Reading list
I gotta be honest – this month, I had to really resist the urge to give in to my basest desires, tune out, and just re-read Fifty Shades of Grey – because my mind was craving something vacuous, among the heat of…
I ate live octopus
Technically the octopus was already dead, but its tentacles still wiggled frantically, proclaiming their last hoorah. Here is the thing, it’s just sashimi, right? That’s what I kept telling myself going into this. The live octopus – or sannakji – is a…