by Tom | Jun 21, 2011 | Business, Reading
An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out. Ugh. Not a pleasant job or company. Reminds me of a sales team whose chair heights are adjusted based on their success, or not. Unbelievable.
by Tom | Jun 21, 2011 | Reading
Nice eulogy of tennis and Federer via The most beautiful game | Prospect Magazine. For me, tennis is great because it is genuinely mano-a-mano close combat with rules. With very little opportunity for third party intervention, it comes down predominantly to the mental...
by Tom | Jun 21, 2011 | Reading
Don’t Blame the Papers: the declining political influence of the printed press tells the sad story of the decline of the printed press as the principal source of news in the UK. Sad only because TV is the new main source. Engaget makes a sensible argument that...
by Tom | Jun 21, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Inner Mongolia: China’s turbulent secret. Worth reading as a counter to the generally benign progress visible in China’s Tier 1 cities. Not all roses, by any stretch. End of cheap labour. It’s all very well hoping that we can move the world’s...
by Tom | Jun 21, 2011 | Business, Science, Tech
Feedback Loops Are Changing What People Do is a remarkably dull title for an interesting article. It confirms that we can repeatably create 10% changes in behaviour using noticeable but unobtrusive prompts to induce feedback loops. Think of the “your...
by Tom | Jun 21, 2011 | Reading
Asking a sensible question which we don’t and can’t have an answer to yet, Big Picture has some extraordinary pictures of weather and its results. Is weather becoming more extreme?
by Tom | Jun 18, 2011 | Business, Personal
It’s all become clear now. Macao is suitably ridiculous: we walked around the grand canal in the Venetian this morning and avoided the temptations of high roller baccarat. Now beside the pool in a cabana with a fan and a TV?! Amazing but clear how this place...
by Tom | Jun 18, 2011 | Personal
Nice travelling on or near a birthday. Junior suite upgrade is the size of our flat. And birthday cake when we got home after dinner.
by Tom | Jun 17, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Leaving HK in style. Especially impressive given Caroline’s dislike of heights and noisy bumpy flying. The slightly confusing question “did you see anything in your helicopter today” might have given the game away a little as we got on the MTR. FYI...
by Tom | Jun 17, 2011 | Personal
Passport? Check. <7 kg luggage? Check. En route to Central? Check. Thunderstorm blown over? Hope so. More as I know it.
