Exploratory

Okay, today’s post is outside of my usual topics but I think it is necessary to go outside of one’s usual domain. This activity falls under my “horizon scanning” that I usually do so that I can get a sense of the direction of the world or citizens are moving. I’m trying to get a…

I encountered Heather McGowan through my readings of Thomas Friedman’s writings. He was writing on a topic about the future, where we will be forced to continuously learn because technology will be progressing so fast that skills become rapidly outmoded. That is pretty much Heather McGowan’s contention: we will be continuously adapting and learning as…

I went back to a post I did last year to see what I wrote about what we might do in regards to China once we reach the other side. Cross my fingers, it looks like we might reach the other side this year – OMG, that would be awesome – but we must first…

I read an interesting article about H-1B visas and the impact on American job. As usual, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Dealbook had the details – he has been coming out with some really thought provoking articles surrounding the American job environment. The question posed in the article was: does restricting H-1B visas help create American jobs?…

A couple of weeks ago, something weird happened on my machine so I decided to do some investigations. I basically wanted to see what files have changed on my machine on that day. After much Googling and trying out things, I ended up learning that Microsoft and other vendors are doing work on my machine…

There’s an encouraging article in the New York Times about loggers and environmentalists putting aside their hostility to save a town. If you are interested, you can try searching for “They Overcame Mutual Loathing, and Saved a Town”, by Nicholas Kristof, written April 10, 2021. Warning: this article might be behind a paywall. We definitely…