I shipped an electric guitar to my daughter arriving today, the 55th Anniversary of the British Invasion ( the Beatles arriving to America). Remarkable and enduring. Malcom Gladwell already studied them (10,000 hours of practice). We grew up with them. And here they are still, the surviving ones. Each one was and is a star…

In “On becoming a leader”, Warren Bennis couldn’t wait to get straight to his first pointer: ” being aware of the time”. Tell that to the 800,000 GS-grade workers who would love to get a better read on the signs of the time. So is Wall Street and ROW. CBO keeps crunching the numbers, anywhere…

Over the holidays, some of us could hardly get to desserts. To further indulge, few might finger-lick the icing on the cake. Our hockey-stick-shaped technology-driven society is like that cake, barely exploited. Only with the right skills e.g. work well with robots – and market/timing combination that its full potential be realized. Or else, its…

As 2018 comes to an end, it’s time to look back on the whole decade. A time when institutions not individuals that got bailed out, machine-learning not man-enlightening and Communist countries grew faster than Capitalist counterparts. A time when globalization ran out of steam ( what NAFTA) and got replaced by the “sharing” economy. Sears…

First, I want to credit the late Tom Wolfe for his mash-up word – sexiled. Second, the group The Guess Who, for providing the sound track “These Eyes” on 8-track format. Third and last, to Penn State Student Housing for providing me with temporary housing (mezzanine floor of a dorm lounge), so I could have…

but let me tell you this. What I posted stays forever in the Cloud. All my hopes, fears and dreams (likes) got stored up, analyzed and applied. They are translated into banner ads and relevant ads. You can unfriend me, but still the ads speak accurately about me, and paint the sum total of my…

The Centennial Man can’t cry. He just lives on, doing the work of ten men efficiently: shooting the Tylenol capsules down the missiles, or dropping the A-bomb on the millions. It’s the age of technological gods, whom “behind you, I can see the millions”. In place of “soulful” “see me, feel me, touch me, heal…

Being human, we possess both intuition and inhibition. The later is more for survival instinct, while the former propels us toward risks and change.  I’d rather exercise more intuition. It is often said women are endowed with stronger intuition than men. Women are good judges of character, of situation especially of danger. Having elected into the House…

I was with my daughter strolling through the Texas Book Festival when I heard about the shooting in Pittsburg. Heart-broken. I just had a glimpse of hope, that there might be a place for me – like Ng and other published writers of late, to add to the American experience. ( I was also observing…

Paul Allen died. Age 65. In his post-Microsoft life, he generously gave away at the tune of 2 Billion to museum and art charity. I have yet seen anyone being so true to himself, to his passion and compassion. In contrast to Paul Allen, Paul Getty bought arts and donated for accounting principles, not moral…