Category: inspiration
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Corporate Efficiency : “Humans Are The Problem”
I sometimes say in jest that in the corporate world the “humans are the problem”. Communication, expectation and difference in perspectives are some of what causes executions of projects to not work. This is a response to frustrations expressed by people on my team that “other” people are doing things the “wrong” way. I find…
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Family Portrait From 1975 in Hunan, China
I grew up in communist China from 1970 to 1979 before coming to the United States. This photo is a rare photo of our family together. This is the time when China just opened their immigration policy to allow people to leave China. My mom was a pediatrician, my dad was an architect. I have…
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Visit With Passionate People
I was visiting this jewelry store in Rome by a very famous jewelry maker Diego Percossi Papi (exibition). The shop is tiny and I was a bit intimidated since the jewelry were all well over $1,000. I looked into the shop for a good 5 minutes until the owner/designer buzzed me in and told me…
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Listening to: Public Shaming in the Age of Social Media
In 2013, public relations executive Justine Sacco tweeted an offensive AIDS joke before boarding a flight to South Africa. By the time she landed, she had been denounced around the world, and lost her job soon after. Did Sacco deserve her public humiliation? Or was she yet another victim of social media shaming and a…
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Link: Inventing Favicon.ico | Take the First
Shout out to Micharl Radwin of Yahoo. https://ruthlessray.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/inventing-favicon-ico/
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6% fraud in Apple Pay? NYTimes: Pointing Fingers in Apple Pay Fraud
NYTimes: Pointing Fingers in Apple Pay Fraud http://nyti.ms/1AQkQkq
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link: 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy – First Round Review
42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy – First Round Review.
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link: 12 Books That Every Leader Should Read
(Photo from my restaurant I Privé) I listened to Bob Sutton’s podcast on Scaling Excellence Successfully podcast fro the Center for Social Innovation podcast at Stanford I checked out his blog and found a list of books he recommends. I’ve put To Sell is Human, By Dan Pink. in my SF library queue. (I removed the referral…
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Find that one true sport you love
In high school I played badminton for 4 years. I liked the sport, but did not love it. When I went to UC Berkeley, I join the badminton club and we trained and competed against other colleges. We would travel both days on weekends, come back as a team, have dinner together and laugh about the…