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It’s the fact of life: people need to feed and eat, by laboring together to achieve that which is not possible otherwise. Let me hold that for you. It’s a wrap (we hear that on the film production set). I love the showing of film credits, from costume to casting, from screenplay to directing. Sydney…
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Divinity and DNA, eternality and here/now, the spiritual and the material. Push and pull, past and future. Are we nearer to Singularity? AI or we who are asleep at the wheel! I always appreciate a good story, like the one about a chapel of New College in Oxford whose beams finally gave, but with foresight…
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Let’s cut to the chase. It’s machine, invented by man, that shows us human, how to behave consistently, efficiently and even humanly. “I am sorry, I don’t understand” (human wouldn’t be that honest!). From flight runway to fashion runway, AI is now here to stay. It has done away with middle men e.g. printing, book…
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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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