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What makes someone a genius? How comes one person wins the lottery on such low a chance? What set a Malaysian flight apart from millions in today’s aviation sky? A few weeks ago, I was looking up at the same Boeing 777 overhead bin, and admiring its contour design. One hour into flight, that’s when…
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As computer chips get cheaper, we can afford to store more. In fact, world’s data doubles every 18 months. If printed out, the stacks would go to Pluto and back 10 times, according to Clive Thompson in “Smarter than You Think” . Before Gutenberg, we relied on memory (the Oral tradition). Now, we learn to…
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Years ago, when I had a chance to visit my families in the suburb of Washington D.C., I got an idea very similar to what we now know as the selfie that broke Twitter: I gathered my parents (alive then) and siblings to Sears studio for a family portrait. The twelve of us all crammed…
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You – the sum of circumstances and choices – are unique. Can’t be replaced or reproduced ( in Never Let Me Go, a futuristic fiction, someone is out to make human spare parts but not the whole being). You leave behind environmental footprints and fine arts, scars and separation. Your choices are bitter-sweet, come with…
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Imagine yourself as that last bowling pin, wobbling after the other nine were already knocked down. The story doesn’t end there. Next round will be a direct hit (or try to nail down a strike). To a single pin, the bowling ball must have looked like an oncoming tornado. The pounding and impact when it…
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My first reaction to the steamy Kobe pho bowl in front of me was, wow! it’s hot. Which means, there is room to add bean sprouts and basil without cooling the broth too much. After all, by its original French root, “feut” i.e. hot, that it got its name. Now, with add-on beef (kobe style)…
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It’s McDonald 2nd day in Vietnam. You can’t miss it (the Golden Arches), coming South from Highway 1 (North-South) as you merge into the round-about. Location, location, location. The ride-in (for scooter) and drive-in (white Mercedes at my first sighting) were roped up, to train the mass on first-in first-out monochronistic order. The stage (first-day…
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Recent studies show more American graduated from all levels of education than before the Recession. Other studies show older ones also tried their luck at start-ups and social entrepreneurship. The first group just stay out of the depressing job market. The later, creating jobs for themselves and others, all the while, learning on the job…
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Leadership doesn’t happen overnight. Since it encompasses many aspects e.g. character, skill-set, knowledge and drive, leaders are to be “incubated” , field tested and launched just like a product. I remember VP Gerald Ford (more for Chevy Chase’s SNL rendering of him bumping clumsily against the door”) and how straightforward his speech was to the…
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That’s what happened at Super Bowl and I believe even today, the Seahawks still practice that mindset. Business leaders need a good dose of that. We are not the world. We are the winners (implied zero-sum game i.e. we win = you lose). But people need to be clothed, fed, fueled up before they can…
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