Have you ever seen the magnificent Commencement address given by Steve Jobs at Stanford University in 2005?  If not, check it out (text and video).  In the speech, he covered several themes, one of which I want to focus on here:  Connecting the dots.
There was a time in my life when I was interested in phones.  [...]

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My latest column from the Shanghai Star Business Journal is now online at China Supertrends. The post is called “Starting a Business in China: Things foreigners need to know” and contains some of the interesting takeaways from a seminar I attended last month in Shanghai hosted by China Entrepreneurs, a networking and entrepreneur support organization [...]

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Did you know, Chinese people, firms, and overseas individuals, companies and governments, raised more than 14,000,000,000 yuan as of May 21, just ten days after the Sichuan earthquake? That’s 2 billion US dollars. 20 days after the earthquake, total donations have more than doubled, to about 5.7 billion US dollars. [UPDATE: as of June 4, [...]

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I had originally planned to write the first post in a few days, on my official four year anniversary in China, but since this blog has just gone online today, June 1 2008, it seems close enough and is also, to me, an easier-to-remember date. Although I first visited China in 2003 as an exchange student while doing my [...]

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