Thang Nguyen 555

You can take it in any direction you want: B2B vs B2C, margin vs volume, effectiveness vs efficiency.

Business and Life both ask us for long-range planning, and short-term cash flow.

In China, they collect $23 per entrant at the Shanghai Expo. Not much per ticket, but if you do the math, it’s a big deal.

Craig Venter, however, carries big chips on his shoulder and uses a lot of processing chip power at his lab (to  decipher the genome).

He could have died on that suicidal swim out on China Beach back in 1968. Survivors can give a lot after given an extension on life, in his case, 42 years has passed since.

We, the sum of all choices, show both folly and kindness.

Just have to know how to get to a man’s good side.

We don’t need grandiose Robin Hood scheme to change the world.  We just have to each change ourselves, through our choices.

An act of kindness here (turn down the volume), and a kind word there (“good luck with the signing of your book”).

A friend just saw the publication of his first book, something about “the first 6 seconds, the most impressive impression of your life”.

I, however, remember small gestures of kindness from people I met  years after the person had passed away (lasting last impressions): my mom’s friend who gave me good luck

money over New Year (shinny pennies, two handfuls), or my aunt who never failed to smile  even through an oxygen mask.

If you want to change the world (grand vision), start small and practical. Maybe your children should be the first recipients of your “beta” test.

Remember to build up their self-esteem to counter the multiple negatives thrown at them years ahead. The world can be an awful place, especially when sugar-coated with grandiose schemes, without small acts of kindness.  I will take millions of $23 tickets at the Expo over a promise of billion-dollar return on Moon rocks.