
Gateway greed
One thing San Miguel understands very well is rent-seeking — using its immense economic and political influence over government to secure projects, then…
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read


One thing San Miguel understands very well is rent-seeking — using its immense economic and political influence over government to secure projects, then…
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read

We Filipinos understand failure; we live with it, joke about it and turn it into karaoke by midnight.
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read

Marcos himself had purveyed ‘fake news’ when he confirmed Co’s ‘arrest’ on social media.
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read

A motorcycle is not cover. Neither is a car door nor a wall that looks thick but is not enough to stop slugs.
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read

At the farthest distance ever traveled by humans, what occupied the mind was not conquest, but a connection.
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read

Psychologists have been warning us about this for years — the dopamine loops, the anxiety, the disrupted sleep.
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read

An army without direction is not necessarily defeated; it can become less predictable, less containable.
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read

From that vantage point, declining to be interviewed could be seen as a defensive move rather than an evasive one.
John Henry Dodson · · 3 min read

Statistics can be very persuasive. They just don’t bring the dead back.
John Henry Dodson · · 2 min read
