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Yesterday I was talking to a colleague of mine. During the course of the conversation, we mentioned NOC (Teleglobe days) Network Operating Center based in Toronto, CANADA. My kid and her friends taught me about CROCS, their favorite footwear. Then this morning, I learned a new, scarry acronym: LOC (Loss Of Crew). It brought to…
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In the news today, we read about stock market ups and downs, a VP pick and the need to floss often (TIME). Then, though rarely, I clicked on Google News, Vietnam-related items, among which, this. https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/column-perspective-the-death-of-the-best-known-vietnam-veteran/article_55a8efa2-533a-11ef-b514-d751e9f45001.html It was about My Lai, and the atrocity that took place there. I guess at the time, “Mad Dog”…
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I am a product of rote learning, of nudging, bending, pressuring, conforming, imitating, group thinking, “the apple cannot fall far from the tree”, social engineering, IBM clones etc… No wonder. After a while, I came to believe, as Patty Hearst once did, that the Stockholm Syndrome is the Law of the Land, like physics and…
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The Olympics reinforce healthy competition: win/lose by the rules. It’s been said that our happiness depends largely on our relationship to one another e.g. Tennis Champions McEnroe later picked his rival as Best Man. In life, it’s who we associate with at clubs (analog) on LinkedIn (digital) that matters. I was fortunate for having a…
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” If I had two heads, one would have rolled away, outside the gate of Pier 5 on the day before the Fall of Saigon.” (my Sliding Doors/when it’s worst) At times, on reflection, I wonder what would have become of me, of that other abandoned head – like our abandoned car – grafted on…
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The Eclipse, Y2K, Powerball, 777, flat lining. Those are events. Infrequent ones. But randomly, there exist “perfect storm” scenarios. Black swan. In short, it’s the category of One. Can’t compare them with “peers”, can’t “clone” them, can’t be reproduced. Unlike in the East, past or present. People still explain the unknown world with the cycle…
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An on-screen giant – Donald Sutherland – has just lied down. Age 88. Watching M*A*S*H* the movie with him in a leading role, one finds ample instances of disregard for human frailty, but not for human life, more camaraderie than canon, laughter than profanity. Post-60’s era was a time of “Je ne sais quoi”; what…
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Neither Hippies nor Yuppies, I just wanted to skip some Maslow Hierarchy steps and get to the meat (self-actualizing) of things. Thanks to student-loan deferred years, I volunteered in Asia and Africa – front-ending my giving – energy, time and com-passion (as opposed to wait and accumulate spare change and spare time to donate “stale”…
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Whatever the problem was e.g. spiritual, emotional, physical or social, the answer has been to buy more stuff. From design and style change to new drug for newly uncovered “disease”. Scale, scale and scale. From supply side, the faster the machine, the more profit. On demand side, people do not want to be reminded that…
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It’s everywhere. Yet we are behavior-modified to put weight on the scale, to measure and quantify in nano second urgency. McKinsey and Morgan, Central Bank and the FED. The interest rates and rewards (FICO) of lower loan rates. On this 80th D-Day commemoration, we salute the courage (manifested quality) of those who jumped out of…
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