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At the last World Cup, the team from Netherlands, who lost, cried. Ten years ago, at the World Trade Center, women and men cried (white dust on black suits). And last night, I cried, while watching The Best of Youth, an Italian saga of a family coming of age since the 60’s. So much idealism,…
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Image of an old guy spread out on his Harley w/ a cigar in his mouth stuck with me. To him, that was it. The end game. Reaping the windfall. In Seven Habits of Effective People, Steven Covey urges his readers to “begin with the end in mind”. I guess, in this case, I better…
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You know you got it right when others tried to copy your every move. An Apple-like store in China, a Sony or Microsoft retail store in the same mall (Galleria, Houston). Steven Jobs, the enchanter, is quitting as Apple has reached its apex, once surpassing Exxon (Google also had this Everest experience). Maybe some Chinese CEOs like…
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Time heals, slowly. It makes for better wine. But it also shuts the window of opportunity. The moment we leap (even before we look), we defy fate. No regrets. In “Blink”, the author presents a clear case for intuition and conclusion. It’s the opposite of SWOT with no action = slow-burn effect that kills the frog (paralysis…
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The first advice was from Jobs, a college drop-out, in his commencement speech. The second, recently, was the gist of a NYT op-ed by Brooks. Those are mantels of would-be entrepreneurs. Where else can you find people who are willing to sleep (if at all) in sleeping bags and code for days on end, with no prospect of a pay…
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A laid-off Coca Cola delivery man gave a bank teller a note, demanding one dollar so he could go to jail and get healthcare. A Florida retiree robbed a bank to pay his mortgage. New York sex workers told investigative reporters they went on-call to pay back college tuition. Something is not right with our…
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subtitle: the Machine that agrees with you. You log on, and when you no longer want to continue, you can log off. You search for sites and sound that fit you. Machine = matchmaker. You purchased this title, perhaps you would like to order that title as well. How about connecting with this professional, or…
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In Freedom, Franzen reminds me of Updike ‘s laboring over a character with winding but irresistible narrative. The theme: too much personal freedom i.e. one’s own apps and features weigh heavier than a loosely connected modern Jewish family. Fiction helps us forget our pain-filled reality. And Freedom did just that for me. With a garden variety of themes: from eco-politic to petropolitic,…
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BlackBerry was blamed for London Summer unrest while tech proponents gave it credits for Arab Spring. Tech is just out there, with its incremental and osmotic effect. What society chooses to do with it is entirely different. There will come a time when we do need to switch to energy-efficient light bulbs, paint our roofs white and…
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