Thang Nguyen 555
Cultures on Collision Course
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Author: Thang Nguyen 555
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Right! We are wired to look for those two qualities in others, but we know it’s in vain. Buddha realizes that by stop wanting, we found. Gandhi won by being after the path of non-violence. Yet, we keep slaughtering each other, hurting people and writing them off . In business, we took calculated risks, optimal…
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When Henry Ford first put together 2 and 2 (wheels) to make 4 (wheels), he was probably laughed at. Then his policy to increase worker’s wages, so they could afford buying the very same cars they had helped assembled was probably viewed as radical. Today, the same thing with Nissan Leaf‘s buyer’s incentive, and Diamond-Lane…
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They are out there, sleeping in street corners, behind dumpsters, in the park and parking lot. They move about collecting bottles and cans, junk and juice. We have trained our eyes to tune them out, to ignore their pleas and pitches. We certainly don’t read their signs. We already knew, since it’s written on cardboard…
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People who connect with so and so, tend to be interested in so and so…. Once you clicked down that path, you entered a maze that leads you further down the path of algorithmic and formulaic social links. No backing out, no return. So, my machine-led social graph has taken on new twists and turns as I went…
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Some workplace didn’t even get to that phase. People just share a parking lot, a refrigerator and maybe a Christmas Party. Meanwhile, you can collaborate with people miles apart, in different languages and time zones. Welcome to the new work place. MNC’s have gone through this phase. From relocation to repatriation. Employees got shifted around, to…
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Essentials only. Portable stuff. Restricted carry-on. Off we go. Leaving behind the desk top, roof top and all the stuff on the counter-top. While traveling, we put on more weight. Eating “lesser-of-the-two-evils” choice of foods. Meeting and making small talks with people we had never met. It’s a thrill nevertheless. The exchange of goods and…
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We woke to all sorts of noise, among them the flow of traffic. Resting by the lake after my few-mile run in the heat, I noticed all sorts of creatures: squirrels, rabbits and ducks. As peaceful as could be, yet we don’t often say “I’ve got peace like a lake”. We say, “I ‘ve got…
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I came across a brief piece about the suicide of an Orange County man. At Orange Metrolink station. Nguyen was his name. The report said he calmly stood facing the oncoming train and seconds later, got run over. No fuss, no self-preservation. I also came across that piece about victims of Temple shooting in Wisconsin. One…
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To your door…… I woke up to a Friday. Not any Friday. But a birthday Friday. Long and winding road. Like a graph, your life can be “manipulated” to make it a more positive-trending (not Bell-shaped). Depends on how you look at it. People have said that President Obama looks older than when he first…
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Got jolted last night. 4.1 shock. And this morning, some more aftershocks. It reminds me we share a vulnerable surface: ozone layer all around and a sea of lava underneath. While we receive pictures of Mars surface, we are reminded of Earth surface as well. It takes some getting used to, living in California. But…
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