Tag: Las Vegas

Dance clips

My daughter went pro on YouTube with the Academy of Swag (Don’t Like, or Matrix, or World of Dance – International Hip Hop Competition).

Happy New Year!

She got my dancing genes. But more disciplined and better trained since the age of 6.

With every successive generation, we witness a shift in speed, style and sensation.

Those combination and permutation of the team’s choreography.

I saw a billboard about the three Blue Guys (Las Vegas show) now with Balls.

This year, we got electric vehicles, we got VW transverse platform.

Work smarter and harder.

THE CHALLENGE OF OUR AGE IS TO SHIFT FROM BEING A CONSUMER SOCIETY TO THAT OF A PRODUCER ONE.

We are expert users, but clueless at how to make things (even dinners).

Some people go through life never have to handwash their clothes, or ride a bike to work.

The machine has taken over. Dictating how we preserve and share our memories (Twitter 140 characters, and video clip, not too long. By the way, Twitter has just purchased some video company for product extension).

The “disruptive” guru Christensen predicted the coming demise of the likes of Apple and even Harvard.

King of the Hill for 15 minutes.

So my 3-minute of video on Facebook is now “disrupted” by my daughter’s 10-min YouTube clip.

It’s about time. Not to quit. But for both of us to keep on dancing. Until “the sun comes up from Santa Monica Boulevard”.

Adjusted expectations

You learn lessons in Marketing when you are in Las Vegas (besides lessons on greed). Mirage was opened to big fanfare back in the early 90’s: volcano and the white Tiger. Now, its low cave-like ceilings, tight hallways (perhaps for planned claustrophobia) and dark interior did not pass muster in an era of high-ceiling, green retrofit hotels like Aria, Cosmopolitan and PH.

Welcome to a new era where even Facebook earning was kind of upsetting (remember 2005 when we had no choice but My Space).

Now, the HVAC machines are humming in the desert (casino) and up in server farms (ICloud). Our new age of Logistic and outsourcing. In short, consumer expectations are following Moore’s Law  to the cloud and cosmos (space tourism). Nowadays, it takes half the time in between I phone versions. Since softwares will eat your lunch, it makes sense for companies not to double down on bricks and mortar. Years ago, we were marveled at the New Year Eve implosion of Sand. Now, it’s normal practice, not only in Vegas, but also elsewhere (at least one in Palm Beach). Apparently, what happened there doesn’t stay there.

So, back to our ever rising expectations (cable TV antenna now are much smaller, and not taking up half of the roof). Speed, agility and adaptability are the new norms, soon to be spilled over from tech world to non-profit world. We will expect .org people to perform at the speed of dot.com people. Or else! Something about the human brain that can connect billions of dots.

Just build, they will come. Even the middle of the desert. Or up in the Cloud and tourism in space. It’s logical and foreseeable, given our ever adjusted expectations and tech trajectory.