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: Nobel Prize

  • How do they know?

    Have you ever wondered how some songs deliver just the right emotion? How do they know what’s relevant and resonating? Chicago‘s If You Leave Me Now, for instance. On these blogs, we often mentioned the eccentric, the peculiar and oddities. Rarely do we put much effort articulating those feelings and God forbid, meltdown or breakdown (Newtown,…

  • Besides perspiration

    Hard work is a given, a prereq for success. But that necessary spark, the 10% inspiration, must be there. Two candidates, with  equal experience, the one with a great attitude wins. You must have the mojo. It shows up in conversation, in off-hand moments (kicking the dog on the way out or giving the finger in…

  • Neither East Nor West

    Orhan Pamuk must be born of “Other Colors” and in the “Snow” who later built his “Museum of Innocence“. He got the Nobel Prize for his unique perspective and perception on being in the middle of things: Istanbul. Pamuk invited us back to his childhood, to view changes through a child’s eyes “when we watched the…

  • Load balancing

    A few years back, we got headlines like “women made strides with Nobel prizes“. And I remember hearing our shared winner of Economics said she studied ways which societies managed to share work load, from fisheries to farming. I assumed she was trying to crack the “non-zero sum” code, or something similar to Network Theory…