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From Beijing Mike:
So I was on The Beijinger one night researching bars or something, and on The Beijinger there’s a bunch of guys who talk all this shit about China, and other guys who defend it, and it’s just one big dissident-defender-online shitshow. So I jumped into the fray and said something [...]
From the General Partner, on life at the investment bank:
Today we unofficially-officially rebranded our euphemism for firm-wide layoffs, taking it from “right sizing” to “having constructive discussions with people on the wrong side of the ledger.” Call me old-fashioned, but I think the first one was better. My only beef was that [...]
The General Partner (visiting dignitary to All Up On That):
I need to get my deep-seated, subconscious personal vendetta against making good on deadlines back under control. It’ll happen. I’ve made a few mental starts to a post, with most of them using random office dialogue as a foundation.
The other day a colleague asked [...]
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