Why My Chinese New Year Performance Needs Improvement: In honor of Chinese New Year on February 10, NBC4 News Producer Daisy Lin writes, “By now I should be the one giving out red envelopes to my kids, but I don’t have any children, so I continue in perennial adolescence.” To continue the tradition her parents brought with them to the San Gabriel Valley from Taiwan, Lin has begun handing out red envelopes in the NBC commissary.

What It’s Like To Be Hacked By China: While running a company in Shanghai, William Gerrity was blackmailed and his e-mails were hacked by a Chinese government monitor. Of the New York Times employees whose passwords were stolen by the Chinese, Gerrity writes, “I wonder how many of those individuals are having to revisit, as I did, their belief that they have nothing to hide.”