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Nasty for the Motherland!

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Will Moss

Can the administrative state get horny on main? Cards on the table, I’m a fan of the administrative state. Societies are large and complex, and a little technocratic competence goes a long way in ensuring the availability of public goods … Continue reading →

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The Overnight Hsinchu Express

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Will Moss

I asked for it, and I got it. I’ve been on the road, which is why it’s been a minute since the last post. About a week ago I flew from San Francisco to Taipei. It turns out that all … Continue reading →

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Return to Commuterstan

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Will Moss

Generation Z is weird about cars but I’m totally normal In what should be an epochal household shift, my son got his driver’s license a few weeks ago. This culminated months of begrudging participation in one of the main rituals … Continue reading →

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Valley of the Dinosaur Rockers

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Will Moss

A heady mix of raw sexual energy and whiskey marketing In retrospect, the mistake was going to a concert in Concord on a Thursday evening. We live in Redwood City and the 50 mile rush-hour drive to Concord took us … Continue reading →

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The Great Luncheon Meat Disaster of ’24

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Will Moss

A food crisis hits me where it hurts This is one of the greatest things I have ever read in a press statement: First and foremost, our investigation has identified the root cause of the contamination as a specific production … Continue reading →

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Leaping into the Unknown (Again)

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Will Moss

A little over 20 years ago, a man I respected offered me a job I was interested in. This sent me into a panic. I had been living in Singapore for eight years and was going stir crazy. Following two … Continue reading →

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Last Run for Falbo Comics: Remembering Scott

Posted on June 19, 2024 by Will Moss

I was a freshman at Palo Alto High School in 1981. My parents were divorced, which was compulsory for kids of my generation. After a few years of living alone with my father in San Francisco, I had moved to … Continue reading →

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David Wolf – remembering a China hand

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Will Moss

In June 2004, I quit a perfectly good job at a little PR firm in Singapore and went to Beijing to do a three month language program. Eight years in Singapore had made me a bit stir crazy and China, … Continue reading →

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Why stopping the hate matters to me

Posted on March 19, 2021 by Will Moss

“I shouldn’t need to have an Asian American son to be aware of racism any more than men should need to have daughters to start thinking about gender issues. But there is power to an issue being personal. Maybe we … Continue reading →

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Three months that changed everything: communicating COVID

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Will Moss

I wrote an article about leading coronavirus comms for Intel during the first three months of 2020, when there was little information and lots of fear. We learned a lot of hard lessons. The introduction is below, and you can … Continue reading →

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