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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Charlie Chaplin would keep filming until he got it perfect (100:1 filming ratio to get the ladder to swing just right etc…). In “the Kid“, the little girl would throw rocks at windows, while our handyman walks right behind to fix them. Gillette would give away razors just to…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: I still remember Sang. He helped me set up sound equipment on the weekend (my attempt to crowd-source and create an open-air coffee-house for refugees), and attended my class on weekdays. Sang was in that transition camp in Hong Kong, on his way to Norway, his new home. I…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Just a date (at least, that’s what Facebook was first conceived i.e. a rendez-vous that was not). Instead, user-generated-apps got creative, turning social media into social change ; means to miracles. We should have coders take an oath, just like doctors. That they will code to cure and not…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: After Moore’s Law came Android’s Law (open-source software allows for faster deploy of smart phone apps – between six to nine months). http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111990/your-new-smartphone-is-already-a-dinosaur Smart phone turns dumb phone pretty quick. (conversely, studies showed a steady rise of IQ as digital natives spent more time playing games). I call this…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Studies show an inverse relationship between socio-economic background and emotional intelligence. http://geronimarion.posterous.com/emotional-intelligence-linked-to-socio-econom In short, those privileged kids don’t give a damn how you feel, at work, that is. Kids whose fathers fell from grace (Madoff, Skilling) committed suicide (former) or died a mysterious death (later). And we all knew…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: It’s been a while since The Right Stuff was released. Gabby’s husband (Mark Kelly) was going back on the last Endeavor mission. The President referred to our Sputnik moment , and how we should move Science Fair under the Super (Bowl) dome. All this reminds me of a piece of…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: The protesters in Cairo said that their fingers got tired from tweeting. They should be thankful that Twitter only allows 140 characters per tweet. Think of the scribes, who had to copy down tons of papyrus in ancient Egypt. For now, young people just want to celebrate:” let’s tweet…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: People in Northern Vietnam scrambled inside a purportedly sacred Temple after Lunar New Year to seek favor from the gods. Last year, in Cambodia, a similar occasion resulted in stampede and hundreds of deaths on the bridge. In seeking grace, they found their graves. Our bio-tech century offers different…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Future companies will exist for only one reason: to be curators of all that is out there and to let their fan base know about them (Amazon). To be selective is to prejudge, a priori. And to prejudge, as social animals, we rely on our subconscious. As David Brooks puts…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: 14 Vietnamese women were found and freed from Baby101, a Taiwanese outfit operated outside of the law in Thailand. They were paid to be surrogate mothers (artificial insemination or otherwise), whose future babies would be put up for adoption. Baby, never let me go. Newsweek has a piece about anonymousUS.org,…
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