Mark, meanwhile, is learning Mandarin. He tells people he’s studying every day, and he gets together with Mandarin-speaking employees for conversational practice. Eventually, he’s interviewed in Mandarin, onstage in a classroom full of Chinese students. The video of this is completely charming; he’s loose and self-deprecating and funny. The students cheer and burst into applause when he first busts out his badly accented Mandarin. “I need some practice after all,” he tells them, and they laugh. “My wife is Chinese”—more laughter and applause. “We speak Mandarin to her grandmother.” When the
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