Category: 5. Current Affairs
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Black Lives Matter. Really?
Mental models in action First, how do I become a racist? What makes me not inclusive. Why don’t I embrace diversity? Then. What are the things that I tend to do under these circumstances? Confuse reactions with actions, unaware of the desires to need to feel good, safe, and useful: 👍🏼 “Like” / “Share” things that…
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After COVID-19
What we experienced as Asia crawls out of lock-down Around the world, many are stuck at home, inundating by scary tweets, dreading about the next 12 hours. Meanwhile, here in Asia, after about 8 weeks of lock-down, restaurant queues, traffic jams, and pollution have returned, and demand for network bandwidth (and face masks, toilet papers …)…
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SARS Taught Us 1 Thing: Panic, because We Know Nothing
The reasons why we in Hong Kong hoard face masks and hand sanitisers (and what I wish the foreigners in Hong Kong would choose to understand) “Individual precaution does not scale to collective precaution…. Hence one must panic individually in order to avoid systemic problems.” Nassim Taleb When SARS happened, we had a very limited…
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The Coronavirus Lock-Down: Make the Most Out of It.
Time to Practice Cheesiness. Because of the coronavirus, school has paused for weeks, and my wife and I had to take turns to deal with the increasingly bored kids. The world seemed to have shrunk too- All the news and conversations during this time seemingly all circled around face masks and cruise ships. At the…
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Seeds of Sanity: 250 Days of Chaos in Hong Kong
Tales of compassion and normalcy. For 250+ days, Hong Kong has been tormented by the political turmoil and the coronavirus. We are still adjusting to this “new normal.” The driver demanded him to alight the bus. On a bus ride, an unmasked man was coughing. We crucified him with disdained looks and harsh criticism. I angrily…
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40 Years of Being a Hong Konger
In the last few months, Hong Kong has descended into chaos. Riots, rallies, and street fights ripped through the city. I was born in the 70s, right at the watershed of the millennials and Generation X. I grew up with Nintendos and Japanese comic books. I lived through 1984 when the Mac and the Sino…
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Elon Musk and Adam Neumann Fighting For and Elevating Consciousness
Two dreamy men’s dreamy quests. Liu Cixin is a famous science fiction writer from China. Alice, a character in one of Liu’s latest stories, “Fields of Gold”, shared a tale her father told her when she was young. “Once upon a time, there was a devastating famine. An old man, before his death, shared a…
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What is it like being a manager in today’s chaotic Hong Kong?
For the last three months, Hong Kong has been in great turmoil: Petitions, rallies, violence, injustices, and lots and lots of spilled over emotions, from streets to schools to work to homes. Counsellors and psychiatrists had been seeing an acute spike in asks for mental support. It felt like the whole city was sick and…
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The Panacea Against Tear Gas
The last few days forced me to come face to face with many sad realities. The only way to feel less hopeless, less helpless, and to have fewer regrets, is to make sure that every second of my short life I am working my ass off to become useful and good; the kind of usefulness…
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