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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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Per Almanac readers’ feedback, it’s those lists that hit the spot (similar to US News and World Report college ranking or Forbes billionaires list). Here is my list:
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If the Sun were warrior male, then Moon, nurturing female: soft, strong and enduring. On this side of World War II, we celebrate women who stepped up to the plate (” You Can Do It”) only to take bandannas off, put aprons back on once victory was secured. Voila, the baby boomer generation. In our…
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It’s ” Pajamas Day” at school, my daughter’s. To fit in, outfit-proper, she needs to wear appropriate clothing. It brought to mind two pajamas incidents in Vietnam’s volumous writing. SVN Ambassador Bui Diem, in his ” In the Jaws of History” mentioned in passing that delegates from his country were wearing pajamas in hotel foyers…
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With every invention we hope it’s the Next Big Thing, often times, it turns out we arrive in full circle – back to Eden e.g. timeshare vs Cloud. Every generation sees newborn speculators and suckers, those who are in early, then in-time divesting. Cryptically crypto. Generative AI, even immortality online, if not on Earth. From…
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Out of the ashes we rise and run til we rest and take stock. We don’t kick the can down the road. The best we could as humanly as we could, we salvage and sort what remains after the fire. We repurpose and even make art out of ashes. In chaos there is creativity. That’s…
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Now that I could see it via Google Earth: flat, insignificant among millions of similar rooftops. My home. We left it in a very hurry. 2 minutes max. Without goodbyes. Without looking-back. Just leave. NOW. Bang! never to return, to have what they call closure. The body might have been relocated, but the brain locked…
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The Net is neutral. In theory and for now. As long as the First Amendment is upheld via judgment of the Court or taste of our producers. While connection (high-speed) is democratized, content (highbrow) is not. Originally conceived to work around an ICBM strike, distributed architecture turns a deaf-ear to filler after filler to monetize…
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