by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
I’m not sure how pleased she’d be with this one…
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China, Reading
Tencent: March of the Penguins. Fascinating summary of one of the major Chinese social networking and gaming platforms. Unbelievable scale (2.3m concurrent gamers at peak times) and some less-well-known VCs involved. I still can’t understand why there is this...
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Personal
Horrendous to see my home town torn apart: all best wishes and hopes for a peaceful dawn to everyone who lives there (and of course to those in other affected cities). It seems pretty impossible not to be close to some chaos: I don’t remember events kicking off...
by Tom | Aug 8, 2011 | Science
To Err Is Primate talks of some great experiments with monkeys using a monetary system that show them acting according to reference dependence and loss aversion. Maybe these flawed strategies are more hard-wired into us than we might have thought. A bit like aversion...
by Tom | Aug 8, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
To the disbelievers, here’s a full on shot from a camera rather than my phone, and an attempt to show their size. The camera has focused on Wiffy’s hand, which is at least a few feet away from the spider on the right. You can read more on HK’s...
