Category: 6. 🎮🧠🖥🏀
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We Need to Talk About the HomePod …
“$350 for a smart speaker?!” “No, $350 for a speaker !” Is it Apple’s fault that the conversations around the HomePod are so dysfunctional? Apple introduced the HomePod as a premium speaker that makes great sound. In fact, if you go to its website, the first 4 out of 5 features are all music related. Only…
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Nintendo, the kid that keeps swinging.
units sold in millions Nintendo has taken some big swings. Often these swings backfired spectacularly. Sometimes, they would hit home runs. Among most game console brands, Nintendo has been by far one of the most adventurous, if not reckless. It is especially interesting to compare Nintendo with its competitions, Sony and Microsoft. Playstation and XBOX have…
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79 things in 279 days:
1. I have lived in 5 different rooms. 2. I have posted way too much on Facebook and they actually drove some of you crazy. (Fuck it’s david siu washing my board again!) 3. and I know if you also follow me on weibo you would be seeing double rainbows all the time. 4. I…
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From CSI, to, another CSI.
What happened since I last wrote? Gosh. Went to Lanai with the China extended leadership team, had a blast.Went to Rio, with the territory GMs, had a blast.Our daughter, Sophia, was born. Everything went so smoothly that I still find it amazing that Sharon managed to pull this one off soooo flawlessly.GCLT visit to Guangzhou.…
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From CSI to CSI
This is it. My accidental 2 months of absolute joy and zero productivity are coming to an end. Tomorrow I will head to Xiamen to attend the FA’11 CSI. Yes, the Nike CSI. Last time I talked about leaving my job at Nike, and the reasons behind that decision. Things took a very strange turn…
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Moving On.
A Letter to people I care about at work: Dear all, I am writing to you guys because (1) I am lazy and I don’t want to be calling each and everyone of you and (2), I don’t want you to hear from others about this news but me first. The worst thing that could…
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latitute
Damn. I just talked about this in my previous blog. This is an application I would really want to see on my phone: the ability to see where my friends are on a map. It is now possible. Google Latitude. It doesn’t work on iPhone yet, but this is definitely a new beginning. Dunno how…
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T’is the time for …
Super Bowl Ads!!!!! Great ones from Wieden + Kennedy Career Builder Coke Coke2 Others: Hyundai (like sunday) and more here: the rest
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iPhone
I must first thank my wife for getting me this wonderful gift. To be honest, I didn’t expect much. All I was expecting was how cool it would be to flip the contact lists and enjoy the smooth scrolling. Then when I got the phone, I was positively overwhelmed. Well, no, I was mesmerized. I…
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Moneyball
“I understood about one in four words of Moneyball, and it’s still the best and most engrossing sports book I’ve read for years. If you know anything about baseball, you will enjoy it four times as much as I did, which means that you might explode.” -Nick Hornby What an effective way to summarize the…