entrepreneurship vs. PPP

生活越優渥，越沒有創業精神。 美國人最富創業精神，日本人最怠懈, 台灣則是跟著世界潮流。在新創業公司工作的員工, 佔全體人口(18到64歲)的比例, 美國13.8% 日本3.8% 台灣8.5% 新加坡11%   

Brevity is the soul of the wit

今天看到因車禍去逝的諾貝爾獎得主 John Nash的一則軼事。 1948年，卡內基大學教授在給John Nash申請普林斯頓大學數學研究所的推薦信裡面，只有短短的一行，"他19歲，今年6月畢業，他是數學天才" John Nash的博士論文也只有短短的27頁. 法國科學家 De Broglie的博士論文雖然"長達"70頁, 但這70頁的博士論文已經足夠讓他在短短的五年之內, 就得到諾貝爾物理獎. 這似乎歸結到莎士比亞的一句名言，簡潔是智慧的靈魂 (Brevity is the soul of the wit)。 學習過程中,要是不能把複雜的觀念簡化成易記的直覺觀念， 那這個複雜的觀念,就不太可能存在腦海裡太久; 甚至永遠不存在.

To be or not to be?

To be or not to be (cramped by the reclining seat in front of you)? With a pair of $22 "knee defender" clips, you can revoke the sacred right of the passenger in front of you to recline the seat. Caveat: prepare for the forthcoming dogfight.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgsWgYeyvw

trompe l'oeil robot

A humanoid robot, Aiko (愛子), dressed in kimono and cheerfully welcoming shoppers in honorific Japanese in front of Mitsukoshi department store(三越百貨) in Tokyo.  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-28/japan-unleashes-a-robot-revolution

Last old-school TV anchor retired

Just finished watching the last episode of CBS "Face the Nation" on every Sunday morning. For journalism, I only prefer watching the old-school TV anchors, starting from Walter Cronkite when I came to this country to Bob Schieffer today.

No more serendipity

Never until this morning did I learn that John Nash, the "beautiful mind" Nobel Prize laureate, was a regular customer in this Subway eatery in West Windsor NJ on every Wednesday at 2pm in this small and serene mall that I constantly patronize in the last 15 years. It is impossible to have serendipity any more. RIP  

crowd-sourcing medical advice

Bereft of hope when your medical problem could not be diagnosed by your doctors for years? The collective wits from Crowdmed, like kickstarter for financial crowd-sourcing, may trump over your doctor's credentials. Sound like too good to be true; however, some patients got their problems solved by Crowdmed that their doctors could not.   http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21651765-many-hands-make-diagnosis-work-crowd-will-see-you-now