What Buddhism Taught Me About Product Management
https://medium.com/swlh/what-buddhism-taught-me-about-product-management-f05c7486649c The Buddha would have made an excellent product manager ?️. He was obsessed with solving people’s problems, he summarized his ideas into handy lists, and he developed simple frameworks…
China has overestimated Trump’s desperation to do a deal
https://www.ft.com/content/f2e3e93a-72d4-11e9-bf5c-6eeb837566c5 For anyone who has negotiated with either Donald Trump or the Chinese Communist party, the collapse of US-China trade talks thanks to last-minute brinkmanship will come as no surprise.…
China’s Sinking Online Lenders Seek Lifeline From Big Investors
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/the-rise-fall-and-possible-rebirth-of-china-s-online-lenders?utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-graphics&utm_content=graphics&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic3 Can China’s peer-to-peer lending industry be saved? The prospect seemed far-fetched just a few months ago, when P2P platforms were failing by the dozens and angry investors were protesting…
100 years of Western hypocrisy: how the ghosts of 1919 still haunt China as it forges its own development path
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3009075/100-years-western-hypocrisy-how-ghosts-1919-still-haunt Opinion: The View by Winston Mok The failure of the Paris Peace Conference not only led to another world war, it also taught China to be wary of the…
The personal trauma that lies behind Edvard Munch’s unnerving art
https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/look-closer/the-personal-trauma-that-lies-behind-edvard-munchs-unnerving-art Look closer The personal trauma that lies behind Edvard Munch’s unnerving art He was fascinated by psychology and haunted by mental collapse He was fascinated by psychology and haunted…
How Supermodels Are like Toxic Assets
by Ashley Mears (Photo: Coco Rocha in Bill Blass by Peter Som February 2008, Photographed by Ed Kavishe for Fashion Wire Press, and is licensed under creative commons.) In 2002,…
Capernaum 何以为家
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki’s CAPERNAUM (“Chaos”) tells the story of Zain (Zain al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents…