Thang Nguyen 555

Cultures on Collision Course

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With some short-term relief work in Asia/Africa and long stint in Telecom, Thang also earned a B.A. at Pennsylvania State University. M.A. in Communication at Wheaton Graduate School, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communication at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Boston. In addition, he earned a CELTA – classes taken in Hanoi for cultural re-immersion.

Tag: Energy

  • 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…

  • the Invisibles

    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…

  • Empathize and Energize

    You wish your co-workers are all into that. They know how you feel, and because of who they are, they take it up a notch. The virtuous cycle. Feeding into it is like fueling the fire. Passion, dedication and yes, winning. Don’t you miss working in teams with those qualities? Pettiness has no place there.…

  • Pause-Reflect-Play

    We are each given a remote control. But not all of us know where the PAUSE button is. We press PLAY or oftentimes FAST FORWARD. Then we are looped in by stimuli  from all directions (Preview, Blu Ray slide show etc..). Attention grabbers and assaults to our senses. We have slowly been anesthetized. Our sensory…

  • Rev tone

    Public concerns for traffic safety create a new market for rev tones used in electric vehicles. People fear they cannot hear those noiseless cars approaching. So with multiple “ring tones” currently in the works, pedestrians might get more than what they were bargaining for: out-of-sync responses to false stimuli (young men get a kick  souping…