Culture and Business Observations
- From Parking Lots to 24-Hour Gyms
Walking around Bangkok, I keep noticing gyms behind street-level glass, many of them open 24 hours, and I began to wonder who they are really serving.
- The Breath of Language: How Different Civilizations Soothe
When different languages express comfort, understanding, and companionship, the sound sits in a different place in the body, and that place often reveals a culture's emotional direction.
- Four Rhythms of Politeness: Observations from Walking Between Cultures
How politeness takes different forms in China, Japan, North America, and Thailand, and how a city and its people nourish each other through these small gestures.
- Observing the Torn Personality Behind a Halloween Party
During Thailand's mourning period, two notices about Halloween, one hedging and one decisive, showed me how personality structure reveals itself in the way decisions are made.