Environment – Thang Nguyen 555

03/04/2013

Impending Incident

The North-East is once again bracing for a gathering storm. Climate change and the prolonged cold front. Satellite tracking has improved weather forecast substantially. Other things in life seem less certain e.g. financial market and food/fuel prices. The Queen of England was reported as saying “how come no one saw this coming?” (in the context of this past Recession).…

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07/05/2012

Trust as currency

I have had great team experience. Been looking for an encore. When team works out, we can skip the prelim and go straight to solving problems. It saves a lot of time. Besides, trust binds us together. Online, it’s hard to know who is who. Hence, trust online comes at piecemeal. Tit for tat. Amazon…

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01/30/2012

Seasons and symmetry

Traffic in the past few weeks has come from the opposite direction: country side to city streets. Tet is over. We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun. Now it’s time to ramp up, to deliver. There are things that can only be understood in hindsight: a failed marriage, a single…

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06/28/2010

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…

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