by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China
Google doesn’t seem bothered about competing on search in China, preferring to focus on its advertising platforms such as DoubleClick and Android. Gives an interesting peek into their key priorities.
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Business, Reading, Science
Great stuff from Neal Stephenson (I quite liked REAMDE, not his finest work, though) on certainty and failure-intolerance. Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age. In this environment, the best an audacious manager can do is...
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
National Day Golden Week Holiday Crowds Throughout China – chinaSMACK. Good time not to be visiting the mainland, I think.
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Business, Reading
A coruscating rant about an ideologically-driven economics which is missing the point of the scientific method. I’m not sure how much straw man tilting is going on here, but the point about the importance of small deviations is one that is well worth getting...
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Reading
Huaxi: the village that towers above China takes a look at a city in Eastern China that has gone from “a small village to a multi-billion dollar conglomerate” in 40 years and is now looking to industries such as tourism to support its continuing growth. As...
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | View
Erika Larsen’s enchanting Sámi series. Cracking shots of the cold wastes.
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, View
A Chinese Fellow Convincing The Chinese To Speak Proper English Video » M.I.C. Gadget. Great stuff. Audi – yentsa, especially.
by Tom | Oct 7, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
The power shift at the top of Chinese politics has finished in private, but is still working its way out in public. It seems that the military will be more influential in this next period than it has been in the current one. The pressure on the small number of people...
by Tom | Oct 6, 2011 | Government, Reading
Really interesting summary: the war on drugs has been lost despite falling rates of drug use in many countries. Let’s legalise and regulate just as Argentina, Mexico, Portugal and Spain have. Doesn’t have to lead to increases in drug taking or drug...
by Tom | Oct 2, 2011 | Personal
Yummy, super yummy tea prepared by my lady wife during a day-long cooking course marathon birthday present. Especially impressed by the saliva chicken and ma po tofu.
