Garlic Salt

One. The man with the weathered face and the large canvas bag launches himself into the ticket office window. On the other side, the inte...

In some ways, celebrating Christmas in a largely atheist country means that you have to get creative and be prepared for the heart melting ...

If hell had a sound effect, this would be it. The moment I stepped out of the dust blaster, a tight compartment riddled with super blow d...

Mike and I hunched our shoulders and sped into the tunnel that led to the underground mall to seek refuge from the bitter Beijing cold. I r...

The best thing about expanding the team is that we're getting a whole new crew of awesome people with even better names. I've menti...

Tonight, I feel 24. Curled up in a hotel room in Shen Zhen, soaking up the alone time when my colleagues are out scavenging for dinner...

Day One We sat around in bean bag circles, sort of like a benign underground brotherhood of nerds, and volleyed questions back and fort...

She kept tearing the piece of wrinkled scrap paper into smaller squares. Another tear. Another shape. Incredible. I made a conscious note...

I knew this day would come eventually. I just didn't expect that it would happen so soon. Virtually within one day of finding out she...

Back when harlem shake was all the craze, my boss thought it would be funny to make our own as an inside joke and send it to our board.  ...

Before Chinese New Year, all the restaurants are booked up, busily serving ten course meals, wine and tired smiles to employees who get to p...

The thing about being an adult is that you get to take business trips. The thing about being a kid still is that you can gush about your fir...

As I walked into the office bathroom this morning, the cleaning ayi stormed out. I asked her if everything was ok. She shook her head, dangl...

I shocked my team today. They felt so uncomfortable that none of them could look at me. Because I apologized in public. And Chinese leaders ...

Around a month ago, I whined my way through an application for the Ashoka Changemakers global competition. The topic was Financial Inclusion...

I purposely took out all the exclamation points here because I am at a risk of becoming one of those bloggers who is just so! excited! for! ...

Marketing department decided that I would be part of the "Leadership Profile" portion of our company website (still under construc...

One of the guys on my team, Sam, is a Communist Party member in excellent standing. So excellent that we've already had to give him thre...

Back at BYU, when I decided to pack up and move to China to work at an American startup that provided micro credit to low income Chinese fac...

The man clicked to the nth powerpoint slide. "They were trapped on their floor because the fire escape door was jammed. 23 casualties....