This is not an anti-all-inclusive essay. I have already bought into the model, and in Mexico, the surrounding ecosystem still works. The resort captures spending, but the destination still circulates it. What I found in Jamaica is a system so frictionless inside the resort gates and so hostile
I'm a Palace Resorts member and can stay at any Palace property in Mexico or the Dominican Republic. After Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica in late October 2025, 157,000 buildings were damaged, and an estimated 30% of GDP was erased, I deliberately chose Moon Palace Jamaica because the
Or: how a Chinese restaurant shutdown, a pile of CSV files, and several hallucinating AIs wrecked my sleep schedule and quietly rewired how I think about building things This story starts the way most bad ideas do. With Chinese food. For nearly a decade, Mainland Chinese Bistro in Coral Springs
Stories once warned us about empires and corporations. Today, those warnings are real. When power meets profit, free expression is the first casualty.
(A sequel to “Why You Shouldn’t Buy the iPhone 16 for Apple Intelligence”) Disclaimer: I write these pieces as a former technology columnist and current industry observer. They reflect my personal analysis and opinions only, not those of my employer or any affiliated organization. When iOS 18 launched in
Disclaimer: I write these pieces as a former technology columnist and current industry observer. They reflect my personal analysis and opinions only, not those of my employer or any affiliated organization. Although I no longer write for ZDNet, I remain deeply involved in evaluating technology. This year, I decided to
This isn’t just another “where to eat” list. It’s the product of years of on-the-ground dining, obsessive documentation, and constant refinement by locals who actually live and eat here. Since 2018, we’ve been building a living archive of South Florida’s food scene — combining real-
A short story set in 2026 The grocery store was quieter than usual. Not empty, not exactly—just subdued, like a library during finals week. Jenna pushed her cart through the automatic doors of Valley Market, already bracing for disappointment. Her daughter, Ava, had texted her earlier with a wish
Writing is part of my grieving process, as it is for many of us who make sense of our feelings by putting them into words. So today, I’m writing because I need to sort through this, to give myself a little space to understand where we go from here.
Today, I learned that my Wikipedia page will likely be deleted because the editors there feel I do not meet the criterion for being a notable person. In this day and age, that's probably a good thing. In the back-and-forth discussion on Wikipedia, one of the
Since I was young, movies have been more than just a hobby for me, they've been a deep passion. Going to the cinema was always an experience I cherished – the anticipation, the immersive setting of a dark room, and the surround sound system made it feel like a
In February of 2023, I joined the Substack bandwagon with many folks in the tech industry looking for an alternative pulpit to Twitter and as a blogging platform. I used it primarily for writing various thought leadership pieces that I couldn’t place in other venues, but also to write