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If we just sit on the track, pretty soon we will be run over by the oncoming train. If we just sit and not think at all, we outsource the thinking to others. Inadvertently, we fall back to the default position, that of inertia. Or give in to herd mentality, bubble mania, tulip mania and…
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The world’s poor seem to bear the brunt of typhoon destruction more than the world’s rich. They live in The Ring of Fire. Can’t afford to move anywhere and now can’t go home. Disaster relief is needed. But long-term and sustained recovery takes time. We have come up with pre-fab housing that can withstand heavy…
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It’s common sense that when we are liked, we have more influence and opportunities. Jackson Brown says “Opportunity likes to dance with those already are on the dance floor”. Sometimes, to improve your like-ability, all you have to do is to show up. Frequent exposure increases your chances (conversely “scarcity” increases your values). Something about…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Whether it’s Ketsana or Katrina, human suffering are the same: things and people once so attached are now gone. Loss. Grief. Anger (at governmental slow responses). After Katrina, I went to the refugee shelters in Houston to hand out free calling cards. I remember the cover of TIME showing…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: If my memory serves me right, both First Ladies Bush, and their husbands read to school children (Ex-President G W Bush was sitting at one of those school chairs when he first heard about 9/11.) So it is hard for me to understand the uproar about President Obama’s Back-to-School…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: On Facebook Lite, people with mobile devices can just send a quick comment and get on with hearing the President Speech. http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/11/with-facebook-lite-a-step-deeper-into-twitter-terrain/ Social networking not “for here” but “to go”. It’s the equivalent of talking to friends while on a moving train or automobile, or while paying at the…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: The Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in: we got 25% lower in carbon emission this past year, and maybe lower gas prices toward year-end. Extra cash for Christmas shopping: kids need shoes. Nation leaders are flying in to NY to attend a Summit on the Environment. Big boys (and…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Twittering to the tune of a billion bucks? http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2009/tc20090924_956402.htm?campaign_id=related_AK And the deficit changed slightly to the tune of 1.29 trillion bucks. Since when we are anesthetized to these huge dollar figures? But I must give it to the Lab geeks who came up with new inventions: copying over the…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: It’s been an amazing contest. Netflix 1 million dollar prize was awarded to the first team of coders. The second team came in, with equally good stuff, just 20 minutes after the deadline. Data rule. Organized and monetized data, that is. The information age is here to stay. Symbol…
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In Physical Education, we are taught that our muscles will work themselves back to previous level of endurance. In psychology, we learned that successful people, serial entrepreneurs for instance, will climb back up to their previous height despite many setbacks (Steve Jobs for one). What made an outlier? Malcom Gladwell studies this phenomenon up close.…
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