Empathic Civilization – Thang Nguyen 555

11/07/2012

All to the payload

Nothing goes to waste. Neither a minute nor an experience, good or bad. This is not pre-destination. It is how our brain stores and evolves. Millions of calculation, prediction, reflection and reinvention. Like technology which evolves, so do we. We made a mistake. We did it again. Then we learned. Both David Brooks and Jeremy…

Listening across the cultures

Listening is hard to begin with (just ask a psychiatrist). Listening across the cultures is doubly hard. It requires an extensive grasp of the others’ frame of reference. As technology enables the world to shrink, more groups join the globalized market. (The PM of Malaysia was on GPS telling Fareed that in the 60’s, Malaysia…

Soft and sizzled

Mind you, this is not a new Panda Express dish. Just China exercises its soft power, by sending S&R responders to Haiti (Western Hemisphere, many time zones away from the Great Kingdom). Why China? China has explored Space, Chips, and automobiles (not to mention its recent Bullet train, which should keep the Japanese on their…