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You can’t possibly finish one all by yourself. In fact, when I was a kid, I remembered it got cut up not into four but eight pieces, like we would with a Costco pizza. Slices of sweet moon cake, in all varieties. Big confectionary revenue every year in China and Vietnam. Although it’s a Children…
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It’s not an optical illusion. It’s real. Has always been there and it’s called light. But somehow, this afternoon, at the start of my run around the park, I saw a rainbow. Nature conspires to create a rainbow for Southern California. Breath-taking is its beauty. People paused and took pics from their I-phones. It’s a rare…
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Isaac is sweeping through the Keys in a Northwest arch as seen in previous storms. Paradise bills come due. This summer we have seen an eerie absence of tornadoes (too dried to happen). Paradise’s sand box are put on high alert. The last time, a political convention that got that much press attention before it gets…
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Overhearing some people talking about rain in Dalat, Vietnam‘s mountainous area, I thought back to a time and a place where innocence was shred like old skin. You see, growing up in Vietnam even in the midst of the war, was still something to be cherished. You might have neighbor’s funeral with flag draped over…
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that manipulate interest rates, oil price, appropriate and earmark budgets for the commons. Adam Smith must be talking about the abstract “invisible hand” of a free market, while in reality, we all feel there are levers behind the scene with successive hands, tinkling and adjusting. Some are automated, by self-improving algorithms. One example of the…
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That voice which slows toward the end of the song as the chord changes: “If you’re going to San Francisco…” accompanied by the 60’s signature tambourine, has died. But his one-hit wonder stays, perhaps more famous than the city itself. It’s a state of mine. A period in history, with in-depth expose by Tom Hayden…
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Technologists are enthusiasts. Their progress are documented in hockey-stick trends. Meanwhile we as ordinary human are still reacting out of fear as if we were still living in caves. The reptilian brain vs rapid rise of chip speed, guns vs germs, technology vs anthropology! As early as 1950’s, graduates would hear something like: “boy, you get…
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Right! We are wired to look for those two qualities in others, but we know it’s in vain. Buddha realizes that by stop wanting, we found. Gandhi won by being after the path of non-violence. Yet, we keep slaughtering each other, hurting people and writing them off . In business, we took calculated risks, optimal…
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When Henry Ford first put together 2 and 2 (wheels) to make 4 (wheels), he was probably laughed at. Then his policy to increase worker’s wages, so they could afford buying the very same cars they had helped assembled was probably viewed as radical. Today, the same thing with Nissan Leaf‘s buyer’s incentive, and Diamond-Lane…
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They are out there, sleeping in street corners, behind dumpsters, in the park and parking lot. They move about collecting bottles and cans, junk and juice. We have trained our eyes to tune them out, to ignore their pleas and pitches. We certainly don’t read their signs. We already knew, since it’s written on cardboard…
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