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While sitting among Julie and friends – all 1st graders, I remembered my Ecole L’Aurore early years. Yes, I walked to school with Pierre. Pierre was a French bastard (100 years of French colonial rule – naturellement – produced a bunch to be expected). He would discuss Kennedy’s assassination. Then all of a sudden, he…
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Early on in life, I heard French spoken as French colonial influence was waning. Then of course our native language, Vietnamese. By 1965, I began to hear helicopters, the humming of US Army jeeps fighting for right of way over horse carriages. Not to mention those Army’s C rations, like an opened cinnamon cake (those…
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When a cell stops growing, it starts dying. When a society starts killing each other for one reason or another, it dies in full circle. Those who committed mass-killing should remain nameless, not glamorized nor immortalized. They should cease to exist, on or off-line. Forgotten and deleted. On the other hand, innocent victims’ are and…
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You will spot those marks when you came across them. You’ll find them in people not easily played yet still opened to having a grand time. In business, mature professionals can be found in thriving organizations: talents who are unassuming, who can tell facts from fantasies, cause from co-relation, who are willing to take risks…
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Ability to press “re-set” after a serious setback. Ability to call “hell” home. My mom was certainly resilient. I grew up watching her multi-task, day and night. And from hearing stories that now turned legends, I look up to her even more. I want to emulate and follow her footsteps. She was raised in a…
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I did not see or hear from my Dad for 10 years. Before that, at least he showed up daily for supper, albeit late (after a stop, not at the pub, but at the other lady whom I was forced to call Auntie Lang). When he did get home, it was a bit late for…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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