Sky captain and world of tomorrow
I have never been interested in any scifi, somehow sky captain caught my heart: I love the characters: they are good looking, funny...carefree...; the retro style color theme and crazy robots are fabulous, comic books are great. Maybe I should go back to be a kid...if I can...
Jenny Fitch
Kill me with her softball
People person
American chef:
"I don't get mad at a person, I get mad at situation"
Nan
She said over the beer that men are genuiely more cute than girls.
New version of you
Piano...
Can you become
Can you become
A new version of you
New wall paper
New shoe leather
A new way home
don't remember
New version of you
I need a new version of me
New version of you
I need a new version of me
Beered with Nan
"You always looked thinking over whole lot of things. Ed said you are not like regular Chinese, you are much different, you are fun loving..."
It's sad that Chinese boy/man are thought far from being fun loving. But that is beyond point.
Nan said that to me over the beer in downtown Palo Alto, while listening to cheap standing up comedy.
Nan said she is good on bar thing and knows all kinds of drinks. Maybe she can help out opening up a bar in south bar, a really cool bar which is much needed in south bay, a place like Palo Alto. I have an urge to tell her something about Felicity, a girl from Palo Alto to chase her dream in big noisy, fancy NYC.
Intense work
Sometime, intense work could provide an excellent sense of satisfaction. It's like, whew!! Isn't it time to do something else?
Internet knowledge trading
LinkedIn has become a phenomenon in only two years. While I am addicted to reading stories of how people succeed, much as their resumes tell the world, I feel they all need more meat. Resumes, reported stories in general put up stories together from someone else's perspective which could be entirely ture, but they seem to lack the emotion. How to get busy people like them to tell their stories? Magazines, TVs, Interviews: these are the media who make them talk. But again, it will come out of other's mouth or pen, or simple Q&A that need context and emotion. Then there comes the autobiography. Obviously not many successful people have the time and energy or talent to write.
Then what?
If you want to know someone, get into their life to see how they live their everyday moments. It's those moments linked together for a glorious endings.
How these are related to knowledge sharing and trading?
Much!
I ever worked for a startup company in 2000 summer as a product marketing intern. That company hoped to create a killer b2b marketplace so that corporate buyers could buy exactly the right stuff at right price, by consulting with industry leading experts before making purchasing decision. After seeing "expert recruiting" process took forever and not seeing the incentives for them, I quickly lost belief in that business model: they went belly up of course.
If we want people talk, make them talk to their interest and life, not stuff that we want.
Bill Gates maybe the busiest person in the world? Besides being geekywhat else does he think? He must have other interests. I am sure he is interested in bringing up his daughter in a best environments possible. I am sure he wants to stay healthy. And I am sure he wants every family in the world uses microsoft. So these are things he might be interested in talking. Let's get in his mind...Of course people like him or Tom Cruise maybe an extreme for knowledge trading to be ever working. But you got the idea...
Everyone has a life or need a life. Listen to their voice for life, make them talk about life they will forget their celebrityhood or experthood: that's when they start to talk. That's when information starts to flow at the right time with right trading partner.
Stay tuned for more on life knolwedge trading...
I can not just wait
for another Monday coming meaninglessly.
Beer can chicken
It came across twice on TV in a week, reminded me the days spent in Wisconsin barbecuing everyday. That was a year ago.
Our online knowledge/document sharing start up
finally found a terrific web designer. Shanyin is more than just a web designer. That is my feeling, often my first impression of a person is very accurate.
The world is flat
By Thomas Friedman. It's interesting to see how Americans read and view the msg sent by China. "Made in China" is having the changing meaning every day. It's even more interesting to feel like being both Chinese and American. I wonder a book called "America in the eyes of a Chinese" would raise some eyebrows...
Felicity finale
Felicity final episode calls a good ending worthy of thinking. This hit show has been capturing my heart for more than 6 years now and I am glad to see it ends this way. Maybe someday I will get all episodes aired since 1998/9.
Lovely new hard drive
A laptop of 4 years old with a new hard drive beats a brand new one. My Sony Vaio now does not have any noise, if any, more sounding like a breath of baby in sleep. I love it.
Cat club of Porno
By the time we reached the cat club Saturday night, it was already half passed midnight. The bouncer looked ridiculous and so did everyone else. My friend and I were the only two people dress "properly". What went wrong? It turned out it was a porno hard rock night. While porno was being played on the big screen, a three middle aged rockers rocked on the stage, we had a lot of fun. Until the last moment I was in a shock while two girls dressed in leather were having sex in the back room..whew...
Auction
I am pretty good on bringing sellers to the same table at the same time. I need to be better on bringing buyers to the same table at the same time.
Business rules of thumb
Everyone likes to read cool content, no one will pay for it: salon.com, sadly, will never make it.
Everyone likes to have money, everyone would like to spend less than needed: the art of helping people make and save.
If you treat your customer as an adult, they will act like an adult.
Content helping people benifit themslevse materially sell, even it is a brain wash.
A thing or two about music
http://www.napster.com/why_napster.html
have to check out the genre, it is really funny!!
A quote from Marc Cenedella
This is from July 2003 blog of his: It was that time when he started his ladder series online newsletter that created much buzz and he thereby became the first entreprenuerer I admire the most.
"If you treat your customers as adults, they will behave like adults"
I am feeling something
A platform is on the rise, we are trying to figure out something meaningful, and more importantly, beneficial to people at the two ends of the equation, while I am dying my brain moleculers to figure out something, at least I know what I am trying to figure out. I am feeling it and it's a good one.
Upladder and Cenedella
My car was in the shop on Monday so that became an excuse for me to take the light rail. Leland and I talked on the phone and he mentioned upladder.com is pretty good on its quality of jobs available.
Maybe marc cenedella might be the type of entreprenuer I hope to become.
Hyperthermia
Windsurfing is fun, indeed, getting stuck in the choppy ocean and washed ashore in 50F is not. For the first time, I deeply understood what nature is and so much about human limits. When the water gets choppy, wind blowing more than 20 miles a hour, it's time to take a rest: I could not uphaul the 500 sail, not on 148 liters board. In the cold water, I was completely rootless, no where to stand stable, no where to swim. The only hope is to surrender: getting rescue. Even though I was exhausted, I was in an OK condition while Peter pulled off the rescue boat near me, by the time I managed to climbed onto the boat, I started to feel the fear: hyperthermia that people talked about, warned about, or joked about. It took unusually long time for peter to get around the anchor he set up, by the time he managed to start the engine, I was trembling so bad that I started to think I was going to die if not returning to a warm room quickly. I couldn't move my leg: I tried and it cramped, I couldn't move my arm or finger, they are numb, and cramped. I couldn't open my eyes, I heard the wind wistling near my ear, the engine sounded weak, I heard Peter said:"the first thing I wanted you to do is to get in the hot shower". I did not expect a hot shower, although I was in an extreme dizzy condition, hot shower did show some magic and I began to think it's possible that I will manage somehow to the hot shower. Club house was close, the light on the bank was close, they have never been more intimate, close to me than now. It looked like my little home with lover waiting:soothing. Ken stepped up to me with a thick jacket, my entire body was in an cramp condition that my brain also lost control of them, somehow I managed to walk with the help from Ken. I knew I made it, the hot shower was 100 feet away, Ken was extremely nervous about my condition and he tried to help me dodge the traffic while we were crossing the bay view avenue, by the time I hit the hot shower, my body started to react to my brain, my eyes opened and things started to get clear in front of them, no more coldness, no more trembling. If it were not Peter, Ken, and David, three old, bald, white and friendly cal sailers, I don't know what will happen. Hot shower was definetely unexpected, but nice enough.
