Why I stay with Facebook? (just trying to be counter-view the other opportunist who wrote “Why I leave Facebook”). It shows me so many new faces everyday. All those flashy selfies, exotic locales and landscapes which one can only dream of. And that is just from people who know the people I know (not very…

Saw an ad the other day. Not Leaders Wanted. Just more assemblers needed, ad put out by I-phone 6 sub-contractors. A few months ago, the Australian spoke person took some leadership to coordinate the search for the missing flight. And this week, leadership is again emerged on world stage, to bring about justice and make…

Everything looks like nails. Every jetliner looks like combat. Those satellite images similar to the ones that were supposed to locate the missing Malaysian flight a while ago, now used to shoot down a 777 of the same fleet. I am flying tonight. Not sure how safe it is going to be (a few folks,…

We (our ancestors) created tools (spears) for hunting and (wheels) for gathering. From tools to technique, we now spend our summer entertaining dollars on Transformers, the sequel. Yes. We can cut the steps in the production process and supply chain (chop down to minuscule tasks – assembly line – then offshore them – or semi-automate…

Explore with me the concept of Key Performance Indicators as they apply to us, cogs in the wheel. It’s the 1st of July, act 2 of 2014. The curtain gets pulled away after half-time to reveal same actors and screen play. Neither new faces nor new tunes. In fact, some even died off if the…

In spite of  the euro-centric title (reminds me of Cultural Literacy by Hirsch back in the 80’s), Mr Ferguson managed to zoom out from history to de-construct the rise of the West (past) versus the rise of the Rest (present). He picked out some  no-brainers like modern medicine, scientific revolution (which paved the way for…

It is estimated that by 2019, there will be an extra 3-Billion people joining us on the Internet. Imagine a bell curve, split right in the middle, which is dated 2014. What will the web look like in 5 years, with that many “faces” friending us? E-commerce, e stock, e-banking, e-ticket, e-government, e-everything…… Fasten your…

It’s been defied for 100 years now through modern aviation. Before that, men lived in cave, in mansion and in quiet desperation. Chinese naval (abandoned to their regrets)  then British naval might have exerted their influence across the seas, making “the sun never set on the British empire”. The Wright brothers, by the way, worked…

Alibaba upcoming IPO has been the talk of the town.  Meanwhile, Amazon is delivering “happiness” even on Sundays, giving the Post Office some extra business. Korean e-commerce is thriving, saving buyers a ton of money, international shipping accounted. This got Amazon’s attention. After all, Amazon chief would not give anything to chance, even “drone delivery”.…

For the past two months, our eyes were glued to CNN for the latest on flight ML 370 passengers, for the Korean students on that fateful ferry and now for the abducted Nigerian girls. In all three incidents, some modes of transportation were involved e.g. plane, boat and trucks . People also disappeared against their…