Thang Nguyen 555

  • Un-Detroiting

    While video recording and taking photos (time lapse) of our Electric Vehicle Tech session, I couldn’t help thinking about Detroit. You see, these students have sat through 10 weeks of theory. Now they have a go at “degutting” the Internal Combustion Engine, to essentially make a “glider” (shell) for Electric components. The intended end-product is…

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  • Expired Empires

    The Distributed Model has enabled the Rise of the Rest. Capital, talent and market flow where the chips may fall. Apple courting China, China Africa, Japan Rest of Asia etc… Everyone is out on the dancing floor. Dance anyone? The combinations are endless. Permutation and exponential. Hard and soft powers, hard and soft currencies. Exert that…

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  • White fence to White House

    In-your-face campaign slogans. Last-minute push. Local, State and National level. Voter drive in full drive. From Alfred Smith (Catholic) to Kennedy (Catholic) onto Romney (Mormon). Religion on the fringe, now got NYT full-page endorsement by Billy Graham. I thought the Reverend was supposed to play neutral, and be wise-man to Presidents, Red or Blue. It’s great…

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  • Pressing on

    There are days when nothing seemed to go your way. Just have to press on. Then there are days when things converge, in perfect storm with positive results. Just have to press on. Things, people and places. They are what/who they are. Can’t bend them to our liking, for our preferences. Just have to learn…

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  • On being a conduit

    Yesterday, I was at a funeral service . My friend’s Dad passed away. We are all conduits of common grace. Paying forward. Hold that door that has just been opened for you. A guy I know ran into his English teacher at that funeral after 30 years apart while I guy I met also found me online after…

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  • Learning by failing

    NYT Opinion Page wants to debate about being informed vs being educated. With the dcline of Newsweek, readers have moved on to Google News (ironically, today celebrates National Print Day) and other mobile content. Short bursts: Obama won the debate. The Giants got chemistry. We will someday think that a tweet, 140 characters, is too long. Just like the…

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  • Insights from the inside

    This could also be titled “Full Circle”. We act out that which triggered us from the inside. Stored up commands. Encoded instructions (like our own software version if you will). Years ago, we fled by barge.  FOB. Then when we reached safety, inside secured camp  boundaries, we started to fight our ways to survival: each man to…

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  • Outside the bubble

    When you are inside, you are hard-presed and unable to think. But when you are out of the bubble, it’s illuminating. You are able to look back, to gain perspectives. Bubble by definition is that which encompasses those who subscribe to its rules (deposit here, withdraw there). We got the Tulip mania in Holland, Ponzi…

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  • Perceived message

    Message received often times is different from message intended. Wrong timing. Different context and stress level. Words that inadvertently trigger negative emotions. We live and learn. It’s not easy to get across, at both cognitive and emotive levels. Male are known for missing emotional signals more often than female. That’s why long distance relationships are hard.…

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  • Tech talk

    NYT‘s David Brooks zoomed out to reveal the evolution of our social philosophy, from care for the Soul, to Personality then eventually to Decision-making (data deluge). This is the age of the intelligent machine. Massaging data. Algorithm and Analytic. No wonder, machine language also creeps into our daily speech. Let’s try to pin them down. First we google…

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